South Africa was hit by power cuts on 5 December after a number of generating units broke down, forcing the state utility Eskom to cut 2000MW from the national grid on a rotational basis.
Rolls-Royce and Lab1886, an innovation lab within the Mercedes-Benz group, have agreed to jointly develop the use of vehicle fuel cells for stationary power generation.
Siemens has announced that it will equip Lalitpur Lower Generation Company, a Bajaj Group company, with advanced digital solutions for its power plant located in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, in India.
The Spanish electric utility Iberdrola has said that it will replace its last two coal-fired power plants, with a combined capacity of 550MW, with wind and solar power.
The Irish Government has announced the first renewable electricity support scheme (RESS) to enable community groups get into power generation.
India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued a notice to the Panipat Thermal Power Station in Haryana that one of its units could be shut down for failure to comply with the deadline to meet emission standards.
Vattenfall and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) have announced that they have agreed to extend the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) turbine supply, to now also include HKZ 1 and 2 in addition to HKZ 3 and 4.
ABB has announced that its digital solutions and energy services business has won a $2.5 million contract to upgrade Copel’s Governador José Richa hydropower plant.
Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40MW extended engineered equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung in the southern central part of Myanmar.
According to data published by the climate analysis website Carbon Brief, global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3 per cent globally in 2019.