Ormat Technologies has announced the successful start of commercial operations for the 35 MW Ijen geothermal power plant.
The US DOE will concentrate on growing baseload generation to meet growing electricity demand, according to DOE Secretary Wright.
Blackstone has agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Centre, a 774 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Loudon County, Virginia, USA.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has completed construction of a 1.4 GW gas-fired CCGT power plant located about 100 km west of Bangkok, Thailand.
Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU/CSU conservative group and leading in the polls to be Germany’s next Chancellor, has promised that 50 new gas-fired power plants will be built in the country if he wins the election on February 23.
According to a report in Bloomberg, Constellation Energy is in talks to buy Calpine in a deal valued at nearly $30 billion. This would be one of the largest power and utility deals in the USA.
PacificLight Power has announced that it will start construction of a 600 MW hydrogen-compatible natural gas power plant on Jurong Island, Singapore.
SK Gas has announced that its 1.2 GW LNG and LPG combined cycle power plant, Ulsan GPS, located in Ulsan, South Korea, has started commercial operation.
Germany has dropped plans for a major expansion of gas-fired power plants because of a lack of political support.
Four firms from Japan and South Korea – Sumitomo, Shikoku Electric Power, Korea Southern Power, and Korea Overseas Infrastructure and Urban Development Corp. – have jointly won a contract to build and operate a natural gas-fired power plant and a seawater desalination facility near Doha in Qatar.