Siemens Gas and Power has won a contract to provide three 33MW SHT-700B industrial gas turbines for a Long-Term Programme (LTP) with Ascend Performance Materials’ nylon intermediate and speciality chemicals facility in Decatur, Alabama, USA.
Spanish utility Iberdrola has commissioned Europe’s largest solar PV plant, the 500MW Núñez de Balboa solar farm in the southwest of Spain.
The Indian Government has taken measures to insulate its renewable energy sector as much as possible from the 21-day lockdown announced on 25 March.
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has extended the tender for the contract to build the infrastructure to enable power interconnection between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Uniper and Siemens Gas and Power have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of projects to decarbonise power generation and promote sector coupling.
Xcel Energy has announced that it will sell its 760 MW Mankato gas-fired power plant in southern Minnesota to Southwest Generation for $680 million.
New Zealand electricity power transmission operator Transpower has said that it believes its generation capacity will be around 95 per cent by 2035, reaching 100 per cent by 2050, making use of 6.5GW of solar capacity.
South Africa’s power utility Eskom has said that the low electricity demand during the lockdown has given it an opportunity to carry out much needed maintenance on its aging power stations.
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has announced that it has begun commissioning of what it describes as the world’s most efficient power plant, its T-Point 2, a combined cycle power plant validation facility at Takasago Works in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Denmark’s Vestas has suspended production at its two Spanish wind turbine plants, adding that its service and maintenance business was still working.