Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power has mothballed the oil- and gas-fired 350 MW Minato No 1 and No 2 units at its Higashi Niigata power plant in Japan’s northwestern Niigata prefecture.
Siemens Energy has announced that it will supply two 460 MW F-class gas turbine power islands for the second phase of Shenzhen Energy Corporation’s Fengda power plant expansion project.
Korea Western Power (KOWEPO) has signed an agreement on March 3 with Thai Petrochemical Industry Polene Power (TPIPP) and Korea Gas Corp to jointly build a 1.7 GW gas power plant and LNG infrastructure in Songkhla Chana, a region in southern Thailand.
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has started development of a 40 MW gas turbine fuelled by 100 per cent ammonia.
Drax has announced that it has abandoned plans to build Europe’s largest gas-fired power station in Yorkshire, UK.
Siemens Energy has signed an agreement with Canada-based TC Energy to commission a novel waste heat-to-power pilot installation in Alberta.
Electricity Generating Public Company Limited (EGCO), the Bangkok-based energy firm, has made its first investment in the US market, with the acquisition of a stake in Linden CoGen, a power plant in New Jersey, USA.
Wärtsilä and Huaneng Jiangsu, a subsidiary of the China Huaneng Group, have entered into a strategic cooperation framework to work on renewable energy development in Jiangsu.
Iran has inaugurated a series of new energy projects that take the country’s total electricity generation capacity in the non-renewable sector to over 85 GW.
GE has secured an order to supply gas power generation equipment for West Africa Energy’s 300 MW combined cycle power project in Cap des Biches, Dakar, Senegal.