Power

Nuclear Fusion

Site of UK’s First Fusion Energy Plant Selected

As part of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme, the UK government has selected the West Burton power station site in Nottinghamshire to…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Ørsted Ordered to Restart Oil- and Coal-Fired Power Plants amid Supply Crunch

Danish authorities have ordered Ørsted to continue and resume operations of three of its oil- and coal-fired power station units in order to ensure security of…

Ammonia

Mitsubishi Power Advances Ammonia-Fired Power Generation in Indonesia

Mitsubishi Power and Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) have signed an agreement to partner on research of firing ammonia in gas turbines.

Smart Grid

Iberdrola Taps EIB for €220M Smart Grid Development

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Iberdrola have agreed to increase the green loan signed in 2021 with a top up of €220 million ($215 million) to strength…

Offshore Wind Power

Vertical Axis Turbines Benefit Offshore Wind

New analysis for offshore floating wind developer SeaTwirl indicates that vertical axis turbines can be sited closer together to increase the power density.

Laos

Laos Poised to Be Southeast Asia’s Key Electricity Supplier

This comes amidst the development the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project.

Wind Energy Industry Needs 570,000 Technicians by 2026

​This comes as the global onshore and offshore wind increase in size by 67%.

Wind Turbine

Developing the Next Generation of Direct-Drive Wind Turbines

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed …

Hydrogen Production

The Importance of Clean Hydrogen in the Decarbonization of Heavy Metals

Decarbonizing fossil energy requirements that cannot be directly powered by renewable power is one of the world’s biggest climate challenges.

Natural Gas

Europe's Crisis Measures to Tackle Energy Price Spike

European Union countries on Friday approved a package of emergency measures aimed at pulling down surging gas and power prices that are stoking inflation, hampe…

Solar Technology

Emrod Demonstrates Power-Beaming Technology to Unlock Space-Based Solar Power

Emrod has recently demonstrated its technology for space-based solar power (SBSP) applications in a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus a…

Siemens Enables Complete Digital Model for Largest US TSO’s Physical Grid

The energy giant will replace American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) protection simulation operation software with PSSCAPE with the aim of establishing software in…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

NTPC Indian Power Plant Advances with Carbon Capture

Carbon capture is underway at energy conglomerate National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC’s) 500MW coal-fired power plant (Unit-13) at Vindhyachal Super Th…

Airbus Demonstrates Solar Power Beaming

Airbus has reported demonstrating solar power beaming, which would be used to deliver solar power from space.

CCS

Carbon Capture Begins at India’s Largest Coal Power Plant

India’s largest coal-fired power plant, NTPC’s 4.8-GW Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station, has begun capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from plant flue gas as…