Thermal power

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Vistra Moving Zimmer Coal-Fired Plant Closure up to May 2022

Vistra will accelerate its move away from coal-fired power by closing its Zimmer Power Plant in Ohio five years earlier than originally planned.

Thermal Plant

German Flood Disaster Impacts RWE Power Plants

Numerous RWE power plant sites have been affected by the severe floods in Germany and work is underway to avert further dangers and limit damage.

CCS

ExxonMobil Joins Acorn Carbon Capture Project

U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil has signed a memorandum of understanding to participate in the Acorn carbon capture and storage project in Scotland.

Gas turbine engine

GE to Supply ‘Power Plant on Wheels’ to Oman

GE Gas Power has signed an agreement to build, own and operate a power plant equipped with mobile TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines for the Centralized Utiliti…

Geothermal Power Plant

Ayala Land Unit Eyes Geothermal Power for Green Energy Option – DoE

AYALA Land, Inc. subsidiary DirectPower Services, Inc. will be largely sourcing 360 MW of clean power from geothermal facilities for the government’s green ene…

Thermal Plant

Doosan Škoda Power Wins First Australian Waste-to-Energy Contract

Doosan Škoda Power has supplied Spanish conglomerate Acciona with a steam turbine for the Avertas Waste-to-Energy facility in Australia.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

RWE Decommissions Last Two Hard Coal Power Plants in Germany

RWE is decommissioning its last two hard coal power stations in Germany, marking a significant decarbonisation milestone for the company.

Geothermal Power Plant

Project in Rural Utah Aims to Tap Into Geothermal Energy

Researchers in a small town in southwest Utah are working on a major energy project, hoping to tap into a limitless supply of clean, reliable power.

Thermal Plant

Wärtsilä to Develop 156MW Multi-Fuel Power Plant in Nebraska

US utility Omaha Public Power District is partnering with technology company Wärtsilä for the development of a 156MW multi-fuel engine power plant in the stat…

Carbon Neutral

Tata Power Vows to Exit Coal by 2050

Tata Power says it will use hybrid technologies, floating solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen to scale back its use of thermal power.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

AES Speeds up Chile Coal Power Retirements

US utility AES is accelerating the shutdown of 1,097MW of coal-fired power generating units in Chile, in line with the greening of its corporate strategy and th…

Thermal Plant

Bechtel to Offer FEED Services for Power Plant in Vietnam

The 3,200MW CCGT power plant would support the industrial base expansion in South Vietnam.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Coal-Fired Power Generation Continues to Rise

The weather in some parts of the United States continued to be hot and dry, nuclear power and hydropower production capacity remained low, and U.S. coal-fired p…

CCS

Sinopec Launches China's First Megaton CCUS Project

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation announced on July 5 that it will start the construction of China's first megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage …

Geothermal Power Plant

Turkey Among Fastest-Growing Nations in Geothermal Energy

Turkey is among the fastest-growing countries in terms of geothermal energy as its capacity to produce electricity from geothermal resources has reached 1650 me…