Shell has started a new electrolyser at its Energy and Chemicals Park in Rheinland, Germany.
Anne-Marie Trevalyan, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth of the United Kingdom, said that Britain will bring forward its target to end the use of coal in generating electricity by a year to October 2024.
A consortium of GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power, and TNO are collaborating on the TIADE project (Turbine Improvements for Additional Energy) to develop technologies and design methods for more efficient operation of next generation wind turbine rotors and wind farms with large rotor wakes and demonstrate them in the field.
Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHI) have agreed a long-term contract for Drax to use MHI’s carbon capture technology, the Advanced KM CDR process.
EDF Energy has announced that it is starting the defueling phase of Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, Britain with immediate effect.
Statkraft, in cooperation with Norwegian supplier Ocean Sun, has started commercial operations at the first unit of its floating solar power project in Albania.
The Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva Oy announced in May the start of excavation on its deep geological nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel at ONKALO.
GE Renewable energy has announced that it has been selected by the Austrian National Railway Operator, ÖBB, to supply and commission two 85 MW variable speed pumped storage turbines for the new Tauernmoos Pumped Hydro Storage Plant located in the Stubachtal Valley in Austria.
SSE Thermal and Equinor have announced plans to jointly develop a new low-carbon power station at Peterhead, which could become one of the UK’s first power stations to be equipped with carbon capture technology.
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has announced plans to close Moneypoint, the country’s largest power station and its only coal-fired plant and turn it into a green energy hub.