Germany’s Economy Ministry has announced that the government will tender 10 GW of new natural gas-fired power plants that can be converted to run on hydrogen in the 2030s, as part of plans to ensure stable electricity supply and the proportion of wind and solar installations increases.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business, Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and Nareva, a Moroccan company specialised in the development and operation of IPPs, have signed an MOU to collaborate on a feasibility study to use green hydrogen to decarbonise ONEE’s Laâyoune Power Plant, which is powered by three GE Vernova 6B gas turbines.
Iraq’s electricity ministry has announced that gas delivery to the power plants in its Kurdistan region have been halted as a safety precaution following an attack on Khor Mor gas field.
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid operator, has asked Talen Energy to postpone retirement of four fossil-fuel-powered plants in Maryland by three years, citing reliability concerns.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has announced it has won an order from CS Energy, an energy company owned by the Queensland government, for 12 LM2500XPRESS gas turbines for a new power station in the Western Downs Region, west of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and Iberdrola Mexico have announced the successful start of commercial operation of Topolobampo III power plant, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, close to the Topolobampo natural gas pipeline.
New Fortress Energy (NFE) has entered into an agreement to acquire a 1.6 GW capacity reserve contract PPA from Ceiba Energy in Brazil.
Hanwha Impact and Hanwha Power Systems have announced that they have successfully operated an 80 MW gas turbine solely on 100 per cent hydrogen.
South Africa has launched three bidding rounds for 7615 MW of new power generation from renewable energy, natural gas, and battery storage, part of efforts to overcome power outages crippling the country’s economic output.
The agreement reached at COP28 was, in some ways, a milestone, in that for the first time for nearly 30 years, specific mention of fossil fuels has been made.