Sohar Aluminium has signed a 10-year services contract for GE Gas Power to provide repairs, maintenance, and parts for four GT13E2 gas turbines and four generators at its site in Oman.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) of Malasia announced that it aims to install over 14 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2050 and retire some of its coal-fired assets earlier than planned.
Following Russia’s cutting of gas supplies to Europe, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has called for a halt to electricity production using gas and delaying the phaseout of nuclear power.
Joao Galamba, Portugal’s Energy Secretary, said that the country was totally opposed to an EU proposal for member states to cut gas usage until March because it would hamper electricity production when the country faces an extreme drought.
Azito Energie, a consortium of Ivory Coast’s IPS-WA, the French utility EDF, and ABB, has announced that its Azito Phase IV power plant is now in full commercial operation.
Equinor and SSE Thermal have announced their intention to buy Triton Power from Energy Capital Partners (ECP) and are starting preparations to use hydrogen in Triton’s Saltend Power Station in the UK.
Germany has decided, in the light of Russia reducing supplies of natural gas, to restart idle coal-fired power plants.
Mitsubishi Power and Georgia Power, with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has successfully validated fuel blending of hydrogen and natural gas at both partial and full load on an M501G gas turbine at Georgia Power’s Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Smyrna, Georgia.
Germany’s RWE has agreed to buy the 1.4 GW Magnum gas-fired plant in Eemshaven in the Netherlands from Vattenfall in a deal valued at €500 million.
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and GE Gas Power have signed an MOU for GE to upgrade four existing GE 9F gas turbines at EGA’s Al Taweelah power plant in the UAE.