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.
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.