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Siemens Gamesa awarded two wind turbine projects totalling 330 MW in USA

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-19)
  • David Flin

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed two orders in the USA for the supply of 95 of its G132-3.465 MW wind turbines, totalling 330 MW.

Dominion Energy to mothball 9 power units

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-18)
  • David Flin

Dominion Energy has announced that it plans to place nine of its older, inefficient, and rarely-used power generating units across Virginia, USA into a dormant status.

GE completes upgrade at Japan’s Yokohama power plant

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-17)
  • David Flin

GE’s Power Services business has announced that it has successfully completed its largest ever flange-to-flange (F2F) replacements project in Japan at Block 7 and Block 8 of TEPCO Fuel & Power’s (TEPCO) Yokohama power plant in Japan.

Report finds all major renewable technologies to be cost competitive by 2020

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-16)
  • David Flin

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) projects that all major renewable energy technologies will compete with fossil fuels on price by 2020.

Resurgent Power bids for power assets of Jaypee

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-15)
  • David Flin

Resurgent Power, backed by the Tata Group, has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the Indian firm Jaypee Power Ventures.

Japan to conditionally allow new coal-fired power plant

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-12)
  • David Flin

Masaharu Nakagawa, Japan’s Environment Minister, said that Chugoku Electric Power will need to offset emissions from a planned coal-fired power plant through such steps as shutting down old fossil fuel capacity.

World’s largest solar thermal plant to be built in South Australia

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-11)
  • David Flin

The South Australian Government has given development approval to construction of the world’s largest solar thermal power plant.

GE Power and Harbin Electric announce order for CCGT project

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-10)
  • David Flin

Harbin Electric Corporation (HE) has awarded GE Power an order for two 9F.05 gas turbines for the State Power Investment Corporation’s (SPIC’s) 800 MW Langfang gas combined cycle power plant project.

US FERC rejects Perry’s plan to subsidise coal-fired plants

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-09)
  • David Flin

The Trump Administration’s plan to bail out America’s coal industry has crumbled after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected the proposal from Rick Perry, US Energy Secretary, to subsidise struggling coal and nuclear plants to keep power grids dependable.

Restructuring Saudi power market could generate $4 billion

  • 7 years ago (2018-01-08)
  • David Flin

A new study published by the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) has claimed that restructuring Saudi Arabia’s power generation sector, in conjunction with accompanying price reforms, has the potential to contribute an additional $4 billion to the Saudi economy.