Power plant

ABB to Upgrade Copel Hydroelectric Power Plant in Brazil

ABB has won a US$2.5 million contract from Copel to upgrade the 1240MW Governador José Richa hydropower plant (previously Salto Caxias) on the Iguazu River in …

Gas turbine engine

Wärtsilä Povides 34SG Engines Fueled by Natural Gas for Myanmar

Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40 MW extended engineered equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung, in the southern central part of Myanmar.

Thermal Plant

Turkey Postpones Environmental Requirements for Thermal Power Plants

The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved an article of an omnibus bill postponing the requirement for using chimney filters and chimney gas purification syst…

Cerro Pabellón Geothermal Plant Expansion Planned to be Online in 2H of 2020

Enel Green Power in Chile expects that the third unit currently under construction at its Cerro Pabellón geothermal power plant will start operation in the sec…

Power Plant Contract Activity Shows Downward Trend in Asia- Pacific

There were 62 power plant contracts announced in the Asia-Pacific region in Q3 2019, marking a drop of 49 per cent over the last 12-month average of 122, accord…

Pumped Energy Storage

Successful Extraction of Lithium from Geothermal Fluid in New Zealand

New Zealand-based Geo40 has been successful in extracting near battery-grade lithium from geothermal brine at its silica extraction demonstration plant at the O…

Virtual power plant

W.A. Community Virtual Power Plant Confirms $50m Swiss Investment

Swiss investment firm SUSI Partners last week confirmed it would invest $A50 million into a residential solar-plus-battery storage project being developed by Pe…

Nuclear Power Plant

Dispute between Japan and South Korea Overshadows G20 Meetings

Japan seized the last event of its G20 presidency on Friday to reject a South Korean warning about radiation from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant as a disput…

Gas turbine engine

New US Power Plant to Use Record-Setting Natural Gas Turbines

According to Caithness, the new combined-cycle electricity-generating facility will power at least 1.5 million homes in the “PJM region.”

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Global Coal Electricity Production to Fall Around 3% in 2019 - the Largest Drop on Record

Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3% in 2019, the largest drop on record. This would amount to a reduction of around 300 ter…

Gas power plant

Wärtsilä to Recommission A 215 MW Natural Gas Power Plant

Wärtsilä and EGE Haina sign natural gas power plant commissioning project and long-term service agreement in the Dominican Republic.

Fifth Overhauled Unit at EPS’ Hydropower Plant Đerdap 1 Put in Operation

State power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) has put in operation the fifth overhauled unit at HPP Đerdap 1, adding 30 MW of installed capacity to Serbia’…

Solar Power Plant

​ACWA Power wins 900-MW Dubai Solar Project with USD-16.95/MWh Bid

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has picked a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power as preferred bidder to build and operate a 900-MW sol…

Brazil’s 11.2-GW Belo Monte Hydro Project Approved for Full Operations

Brazil’s 11.2-GW Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon rainforest will start operating at full capacity, after clearance from regulator Aneel was received …

Bui Power Authority Completes 45-kW Small Hydro Station in Ghana

The Bui Power Authority announces it has completed work on the 45-kW Tsatsadu Generating Station, which it calls Ghana’s first micro-hydropower plant.