Vistra has announced that it is seeking to extend the operation of Luminant’s Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant through to 2053, an additional 20 years beyond its original licences.
Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development has announced that it has invested $409 million to acquire a 49 per cent stake in Jackson Generation, a 1200 MW gas-fired power plant in Illinois, USA.
Hyundai Engineering has signed a contract with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC) of the USA to supply equipment for the Canadian Chalk River micro modular reactor (MMR) demonstration project.
GE Research has been awarded a 30-month $4.3 million project by the US Department of Energy’s Power technologies Office to improve both the operating capacity and flexibility of hydropower assets.
Baker Hughes has announced that it agreed to acquire the power generation unit of Brush Energy from private equity investors One Equity Partners.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has agreed to certify the first SMR, from NuScale.
Hecate Energy has received a siting permit for its Cider Solar Farm from the New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES).
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has approved construction of the Ten West Link Transmission line project between Tonopah, Arizona and Blythe, California.
In the USA, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a proposed rule to speed up the process for linking new power generation to the grid.
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.