Doosan Enerbility signed an MOU on 23 October with the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan to cooperate in the development of the country’s power industry.
The US Supreme Court has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to proceed with its plans to limit carbon emissions by power plants.
Siemens Energy and 8 Rivers have formed a strategic partnership to develop direct-fired supercritical CO2 turbines for a variety of power sources. This collaboration aims to pave the way for commercial-scale projects in the future.
A US Federal appeals court has ruled that a new federal regulation limiting greenhouse emissions from coal-fired power plants can remain in force.
Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility of South Africa, has received government approval to keep five of its old coal-fired power plants operational for five years after the country implements a limit on plant emissions in 2025.
A new multimillion-pound project led by Heriot-Watt University’s global research institute for net zero is using AI to slash the time and cost involved in modelling carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods.
A report by the environmental think tank Ember states that growth in solar and wind power pushed renewable generation to a record 30 per cent of global electricity production in 2030, putting the target of tripling global renewable capacity by 2030 within reach.
Energy ministers at the G7 meeting in Turin have agreed on a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, committing to shutting down these plants by the first half of the 2030s.
According to an annual report from Global Energy Monitor, global coal-fired power capacity grew in 2023, driven largely by a wave of new plants being built in China, which accounted for two-thirds of the global growth of newly operating coal-fired plants.
The European Commission has announced that carbon emissions from power plants fell by 24 per cent compared to 2022, the fastest decline in history.