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Bringing CCUS to Indonesian gas fuelled power
11 October, 2023
GE Vernova, CARBONCO of Korea, BP Berau (bp), PLN Nusantara Power (subsidiary of Indonesia’s national utility PLN), and PT Jawa Satu Power (aka Jawa 1), a special purpose joint venture of Pertamina, Marubeni and Sojitz that owns the Jawa 1 LNG fuelled combined cycle power plant, have signed an MoU to jointly carry out a feasibility study to develop a CCUS value chain and develop technologies to decarbonise gas fuelled power plants in Indonesia.

RWE sees huge potential in a “core market”
14 September, 2023
RWE Renewables Europe & Australia has been successful in the New South Wales competitive tender process offering “long-term energy service agreements” to long duration storage project developers, with RWE’s Limondale 50 MW/400 MWh project awarded. The storage facility will be located next to RWE’s existing 249 MWac Limondale solar farm, taking advantage of existing grid infrastructure. The project is working towards a final investment decision within the next 12 months.

Green or greenwash? Why we need clean energy certification
02 August, 2023
By 2050, supplying and using carbon-neutral energy will be a core requirement for a licence to operate, but how do we ensure that our energy really does come from renewable resources? The answer is clean energy certification.

The FLEX reactor – the next step in molten salt reactor evolution
31 May, 2023
Moltex Energy, the UK-based developer of molten salt nuclear technology, launched its subsidiary MoltexFLEX last autumn to work on its FLEX reactor – the latest application of the company’s platform stable salt reactor (SSR) design. MoltexFLEX CEO David Landon outlines the work being done to make it a reality.

Did Green Day deliver?
04 May, 2023
The UK published dozens of updates on its plans for an economy that is ‘net zero’ in carbon emissions. But what did it achieve?, asks Janet Wood

Challenging times for Smart Wires
20 April, 2023
Commercial success is proving elusive for Smart Wires, despite having a proven power electronics offering that enables better use to be made of the grid.

Adding more inertia in the UK
15 March, 2023
NG ESO Stability Pathfinder: a further update

Gas turbines and decarbonisation
18 January, 2023
The view from Finspång

Simply Blue and Marine Power Systems launch PelaFlex floating wind project
05 January, 2023
Marine Power Systems (MPS) is partnering with Simply Blue Group to develop a project proposal for the Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round run by Crown Estate Scotland.

Release of IEA Energy RD&D budgets data
08 November, 2022
The International Energy Agency has released its ‘2022 Energy Technology RD&D Budgets Data’ report, together with a new report designed to help governments better track their national energy RD&D investments.

GE and Shell sign LNG development agreement
08 November, 2022
GE Gas Power and Shell Global Solutions, a prominent supplier of liquefied natural gas for more than 50 years, have signed a development agreement to pursue potential pathways aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of Shell’s LNG supply projects around the world. With global LNG demand projected to almost double by 2040, decarbonisation is becoming a critical issue.

Victoria-NSW interconnector upgrade completed
08 November, 2022
A greater volume of renewable energy will be able to flow between Victoria, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Teritory (ACT), with the successful delivery of Transgrid’s upgrade of the Victoria-NSW Interconnector, VNI. The $45 million upgrade has increased capacity by 170 MW.

Waveswing trials exceed expectations
08 November, 2022
Inverness, Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy has recorded ‘highly encouraging’ results from the current phase of sea trials of its wave energy device at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.

SMRs: a question of when, not whether?
04 November, 2022
The momentum behind small modular reactors continues to build worldwide

Tenerife PV project leads the way
02 November, 2022
E.ON and Adeje, a municipality in the south west of the island of Tenerife, are establishing an innovative energy community called “Adeje Verde” – said to be the first of its kind in Europe. The aim is to enable residents to produce, share and collectively use PV generated electricity, allowing Adeje, currently 79% dependent on fossil fuels, to move towards 100% renewables in the form of rooftop solar.

IEA sees reasons for hope in the current energy crisis
01 November, 2022
The International Energy Agency’s most recent publication, World Energy Outlook 2022, suggests that the global energy crisis ‘can be a historic turning point towards a cleaner and more secure future’, but it warns that present scenarios will not be enough to avert catastrophe. But for the first time, it reports, global demand for each of the fossil fuels shows a peak or plateau across all WEO scenarios, with Russian exports in particular falling significantly as the world energy order is reshaped.

UN Panel on Climate Change issues stark warning
01 November, 2022
A new report released on 26 October by the UN’s principal climate change watchdog, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, shows that countries are ‘bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward’ but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Large-scale direct air capture moving to next step
01 November, 2022
The world’s largest commercial-scale project capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it underground is undergoing assessment in Iceland. Ramboll has been selected by prominent direct air capture (DAC) company Climeworks to carry out a due diligence study of the project, which is operating under the name ‘Mammoth’.

Enabler of the all-electric future
26 October, 2022
Electrify everything and run it on low carbon power. That is the imperative driving the huge growth in power-to-X projects worldwide

Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure to develop 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark
26 October, 2022
Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have entered into a partnership to develop approx. 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark across four projects.