Singapore has announced its intention to start a project to utilise ammonia as a fuel source for power generation.
Research by the energy think tank Ember indicates that around half of the world’s economies have already passed their peak in power generation from fossil fuels.
Coal inventories at Indian power plants in the first half of October fell at their fastest rate in two years, with electricity demand boosting imports as fuel use outpaced supply.
Valmet will supply a biomass plant to Göteburg Energi in Gothenburg, Sweden. This will be a new plant to produce electricity and district heat from renewable and recovered sources by 2025.
The consortium HYFLEXPOWER has used 100 per cent renewable hydrogen to operate a gas turbine on the site of Smurfit-Kappa at Saillat-sur-Vienne in France.
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.