Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has announced 37 new energy awards with a total of 7411 MW in solar PV and wind power generation assets in priority regions across the country.
Okinawa Coca-Cola Bottling has begun operating a large-scale solar power generation system at its Urasoe plant in Okinawa, Japan.
Hitachi Energy and Alinta Energy have entered into a three-year outage agreement focused on outage planning, maintenance, and asset lifecycle management.
Wärtsilä has announced that it has started validation of a new 100 per cent hydrogen engine intended to power Spain’s national electricity grid in Bermeo, northern Spain. This will be the world’s first demonstration of a large-scale 100 per cent hydrogen engine.
South Africa’s Eskom Holdings has officially launched Eskom Green, a renewable energy division aimed at accelerating the development of large-scale renewable energy projects.
Acwa Power Philippines and Emerging Power Inc (EPI), Nickel Asia Corp’s power generation arm, have signed a joint development agreement to jointly explore development of up to 5000 MW of renewable energy and gas-fired generation capacity across the Philippines.
The Chinese state-owned CHN Energy has said that it has achieved a technological breakthrough that allows for a 50 per cent green hydrogen blend in coal-fired power generation, achieving 100 per cent hydrogen combustion.
Brazil has launched what is described as the world’s first engine designed to run almost entirely on ethanol for large-scale power generation, opening a pathway for use of the biofuel.
President Trump of America is expected to announce on 4 June that his administration will give about $700 million in an attempt to bolster coal-fired power plants.
Mustafa Madbouli, Prime Minister of Egypt, has announced that as a result of the war in Iran revealing the vulnerability of oil and gas supplies, Egypt will increase the proportion of renewables in its energy mix.