GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business has completed the commissioning of four 175 MW Francis hydropower turbines and generators at the Zungeru project in Nigeria.
The 2 GW Lijiaxia Hydropower Station, believed to be the world’s largest double-row turbine arrangement, has started operation in China’s northwest Qinghai province.
The Iraqi cabinet has approved the recommendation from the Ministerial Energy Council to allocate $203 million from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Electricity to rehabilitate Units 2 and 3 at the Hartha Thermal Power Station and the rehabilitation of the Doura Gas Station.
Ge Vernova’s Gas Power business and Harbin Electric have announced that China’s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) Jineng (Zhoushan) Gas Power Generation has ordered two GE 9HA.02 gas turbines for a new CCGT power plant located in the Zhoushan archipelago in Zhejiang Province, China.
Australian firms Southern Infrastructure and Kaizen ANZ have proposed partnering with the Philippine Government to develop a 40 MW thorium-fuelled nuclear power plant in the Philippines.
Ukraine is undertaking a massive effort to repair and reinforce its energy infrastructure before winter in anticipation of Russian attempts to damage power plants and grid infrastructure with missile and drone attacks as part of its invasion of Ukraine.
The city government of New Taipei has announced that Taiwan is preparing to launch its first commercial geothermal power plant which will draw energy from a volcano.
Germany has announced that it will be preparing several frozen brown coal-fired power plants to make them available for power generation in the winter to ensure security of supply.
Mitsubishi Power and the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), the largest public utility in Oklahoma, USA, have signed an agreement to provide a second gas turbine to the Grand River Energy Centre in Chouteau, Oklahoma.
The energy think tank Ember has said that India needs to increase annual solar capacity additions by 36 per cent every year if it is to meet its 2027 target.