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.
GE Vernova has announced that it has won an order for an LM6000 gas turbine that will operate on 100 per cent hydrogen at the Whyalla hydrogen power plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
The State Government of Lagos in Nigeria has invited bids for IPPs to develop up to 4050 MW of gas-fired power plants in Lagos, Nigeria.
MidAmerican Energy of Iowa, USA, has said it expects to invest heavily in solar energy, natural gas-fired power plants, and an SMR facility over the next two decades to meet increasing demand, partly driven by the growing data centre industry.
GE Vernova has announced that the Dongguan Ningzhou CCGT power plant in Guangdong province, China, has officially begun operations, delivering up to 2.4 GW.
China’s thermal power generation in September rose 8.9 per cent from the equivalent a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Mitsubishi Power has completed construction of the eighth and final M701JAC unit of a 5300 MW natural gas-fired power plant project in Thailand.
Japan’s JERA has announced that it plans to invest in a natural gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, believing that there will be a shift from coal to gas in Asia.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has announced that it has won an order from Samsung C&T Corporation Saudi Arabia to supply its M501JAC hydrogen-ready gas turbine for a new industrial steam and electricity cogeneration plant project in Saudi Arabia.