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.
Ukraine is undertaking a massive effort to repair and reinforce its energy infrastructure before winter in anticipation of Russian attempts to damage power plants and grid infrastructure with missile and drone attacks as part of its invasion of Ukraine.
Germany has announced that it will be preparing several frozen brown coal-fired power plants to make them available for power generation in the winter to ensure security of supply.
GE Vernova has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Collaboration (MOC) between its hydropower business and Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s largest operator of hydropower plahttps://en.uhe.gov.ua/nts.
Unit 3 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia has started operating at full power, according the Slovakian utility Slovenské Elektrárne.
Robert Habeck, Germany’s Economy Minister, said that the country is likely to generate more than 50 per cent of its power from renewable energy this year, but that it needs to increase the speed of its transition.
The Drax Electric Insights report from Imperial College London said that in Q2 2023, wind power generation exceeded gas power production, and that UK wind power capacity now exceeds gas power capacity.
Hitachi Energy has been selected by SSEN Transmission and National Grid to supply two HVDC converter stations to interconnect the Scottish and English power grids.
Matrix Renewables, the Spanish developer, has won €47 million in non-recourse project financing from Banco Sabadell to support construction of a 50 MW solar power plant in Seville, Spain.