GE Gas Power has announced that the company’s front end engineering design (FEED) study “Retrofittable Advanced Combined Cycle Integration for Flexible Decarbonised Generation” will received $5.77 million in federal from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management following successful completion of the award negotiation phase.
The Irish state energy group ESB has announced it will spend up to €2 billion a year until the end of the decade on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It said it would reach net zero by 2040.
Vattenfall has announced that it has received planning approval from the UK government for its proposed 1.8 GW Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm.
Göteborg Energi and Siemens Energy have announced that they have successfully run a gas turbine in the Rya CHP plant using liquid biofuel instead of natural gas.
EDF has announced plans to acquire GE’s French turbine unit, which maintains and manufactures steam turbines for nuclear power plants in France.
US power plant builder APR Energy (APR) has announced that it will supply Evolution Power Partners (EPP) with a 228 MW gas-fired power plant, to be located in Itaguai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bradwell B Power Company (BrB), consisting of China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and EDF, is developing proposals for two HPR1000 pressurised water reactors (PWRs) to be constructed at the Bradwell site in Essex, UK.
South African state-owned utility Eskom has said it will reduce scheduled power following an improvement in generation capacity.
Acwa Power has reached an agreement with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) to convert the 2400 MW Hassyan power plant from coal to natural gas.
US utility Georgia Power is seeking approval to add 2.3 GW of renewable energy capacity in 2022 as part of a wider plan to expand its renewable capacity to 11.5 GW by 2035.