The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $14 million to help build a hydrogen energy production facility at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota, USA.
Burns & McDonnell has been selected to supply engineering services for two natural gas-fired power plants in Alberta, Canada.
GE Renewable Energy has announced that its Haliade-X prototype has been optimised and is now operating at 13 MW power output.
The 485 MW Long Ridge Energy Terminal natural gas power plant currently under construction in southeast Ohio will use hydrogen mixed with natural gas to lower the emissions profile of the plant.
Vistra has announced that it will spend $1.15 billion on solar and storage projects in California and Texas, USA by 2022 and retire 6.8 GW of coal assets by 2027.
Plug Power and Brookfield Renewable have entered into an agreement for Plug Power to buy renewable electricity from Brookfield Renewable to facilitate Plug Power’s production of approximately 10 tons of 100 per cent green liquid hydrogen per day.
Mitsubishi Power and Entergy have signed a joint development agreement to collaborate in bringing decarbonisation projects to Entergy’s utility businesses in four states in USA: Arkansas, Louisiana, including the separate jurisdiction of New Orleans, Mississippi, and Texas.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has won two new onshore wind projects in Texas, with a total installed capacity of 325 MW.
Siemens Energy has won a contract for the supply and long-term service of the planned 900 MW Cascade Power Plant in Alberta, Canada.
NuScale Power has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the last phase of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the company’s SMR with the issuance of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER).