TotalEnergies (TTE) has signed an agreement with TexGen to acquire three gas-fired plants in Texas, USA for $625 million with a total capacity of 1.5 GW.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), Kenya’s largest power producer, has announced a plan to generate more electricity from geothermal power plants in the face of low water inflows being experienced at the hydropower stations, the result of low rainfall in the country.
EnBW, a German regional utility, has placed awarded GE Vernova two orders for H-Class natural gas-fired combined cycle power generation equipment for EnBW’s CHP power stations in Heilbronn and Altbach/Deizisau near Stuttgart.
South Africa is intensifying efforts to address its energy deficit by accelerating plans for 3 GW of gas-fired power generation.
TransAlta has announced that it has acquired Canadian-based Heartland Generation for $658 million, which includes the assumption of $268 million of debt.
Singapore has announced its intention to start a project to utilise ammonia as a fuel source for power generation.
Research by the energy think tank Ember indicates that around half of the world’s economies have already passed their peak in power generation from fossil fuels.
The consortium HYFLEXPOWER has used 100 per cent renewable hydrogen to operate a gas turbine on the site of Smurfit-Kappa at Saillat-sur-Vienne in France.
The Iraqi cabinet has approved the recommendation from the Ministerial Energy Council to allocate $203 million from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Electricity to rehabilitate Units 2 and 3 at the Hartha Thermal Power Station and the rehabilitation of the Doura Gas Station.
Ge Vernova’s Gas Power business and Harbin Electric have announced that China’s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) Jineng (Zhoushan) Gas Power Generation has ordered two GE 9HA.02 gas turbines for a new CCGT power plant located in the Zhoushan archipelago in Zhejiang Province, China.