Brazil has reduced the proportion of electricity generated by hydropower, replacing it with solar and wind, according to data from energy think tank Ember.
JERA has announced plans to co-fire 20 per cent ammonia with coal at its Hekinan thermal power station in Japan. It said that this would be the world’s first trial using a large amount of the gas at a major commercial plant.
Data from energy think tank Ember shows that India’s coal-fired electricity generation reached a new high in January 2024, with its share of the country’s generation mix reaching 80 per cent.
The UK Government has committed to building new gas-fired power stations to avert what Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho described as the “genuine prospect of blackouts.”
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has signed an MOU with PTT to jointly conduct a pre-feasibility study to explore using 100 per cent ammonia for gas turbine power generation in Thailand, to support the country’s decarbonisation goals.
Italy’s Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin has announced that Italy will close all of its remaining coal-fired power stations by 2025, except for Sardinia. He said that Italy would build natural gas plants instead.
BHI of South Korea has won a $150 million contract to supply HRSGs for Saudi Arabia’s largest CCGT power plant construction project, the SEPCO-3 project led by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a report, CO2 emissions in 2023, that has found that global energy-related CO2 emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before, even as total energy demand growth accelerated.
Volvo Penta and Aiab Energy are strengthening their collaboration to provide integrated battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Meralco PowerGen and Aboitiz Power are jointly investing an estimated $3.3 billion in two of San Miguel Global Power Holding’s gas-fired power plants in the Philippines.