Doosan Enerbility has won a €200 million contract to supply key turbine equipment for new reactors in the Czech Republic. It will supply two sets of steam turbines, generators, and turbine control systems for Units 5 and 6 of the Dukovany nuclear power plant through its subsidiary Doosan Skoda Power.
Wärtsilä has won a contract from Gramme Storage 1 to supply a 50 MW/100 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in eastern Belgium.
GE Vernova has announced completion of two high-efficiency upgrades at InterGen’s 800 MW CCGT Coryton power plant, located 30 miles east of London in the UK. The work included upgrades of the GT26 gas turbines as well as borescope inspections on two generators and steam turbines, valve inspections, and electrical testing of all components.
Rolls-Royce has launched a new range of modular gas engine power plants. Rolls-Royce said that the preconfigured turnkey systems can be deployed within 12-18 months and deliver any capacity from 5 MW to several hundred MW, according to the needs of the customer.
Ed Miliband, UK’s Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, has reduced a green energy subsidy after deciding it had overcompensated solar panel owners. He said that the Government would change the payments that people who installed solar panels under the Feed-In-Tariffs (FIT) scheme between 2010 and 2019 would receive.
The UK Government has announced that its latest auction for offshore wind, Contracts for Difference AR7, has secured 8.4 GW.
EDP of Portugal has commissioned a hybrid generation project that combines a 48 MW solar power plant with the existing 41 MW Pracana Hydropower Plant in Portugal. This is the first of its type for the company.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems reported that in 2025, the share of renewables in Germany’s net public electricity generation amounted to 55.9 per cent.
Britain’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) has announced it is overhauling the grid connection system to prioritise viable power projects, targeting decarbonisation by 2030. This reform aims to eliminate grid bottlenecks caused by non-viable ‘zombie’ projects.
The world’s first E-STATCOM was officially commissioned in Mehrum, Germany in early December by Siemens Energy.