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Japan

Ohi Unit 3 Reactor Automatically Shuts Down After Generator Trip

Kansai Electric Power Company said the reactor at Ohi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3 automatically shut down on the night of August 8, 2026, after a Loss of Field…

New Zealand

Waitaki Hydro Scheme Gains 30MW in Generation Capacity

Meridian Energy has increased the maximum operating capacity of three hydropower stations in New Zealand’s Waitaki scheme, adding a combined 30MW of renew…

United States

Amazon Plans Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant for AI Data Center in Texas

Amazon is planning to build a major AI data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, powered by a dedicated natural gas plant with a planned capacity of 7.65 gigaw…

Japan

Kawasaki Heavy Industries to Renovate Safety Equipment at JERA’s Taketoyo Coal-Biomass Plant

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has been commissioned by JERA to renovate safety and biomass fuel transport equipment at the Taketoyo coal-biomass power plant in Aich…

Japan

RENOVA’s Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant Resumes Normal Operation

July 29, 2026 — RENOVA, Inc. announced that the Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant resumed normal operation on July 25, 2026, as planned, after completing rep…

Australia

Neoen Expands Goyder Battery After Winning South Australian Capacity Contracts

July 29, 2026 — Neoen has doubled the size of its Goyder Battery project after securing two 15-year capacity service contracts in South Australia’s inaug…

Japan

Japan Weighs Foreign Bank Financing for U.S. Gas Power Projects

Japan is considering financing from foreign banks for natural gas-fired power generation projects in the United States as part of its $550 billion U.S. investme…

Japan

Renova Temporarily Suspends Operations at Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Plant

Japan-based Renova Inc. announced on July 21 that operations at its 74.8-megawatt Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant have been temporarily suspended for repair…

Pakistan

KP Completes Two Mini-Micro Hydropower Projects in Upper Dir

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has completed two mini-micro hydropower projects with a combined capacity of 342 kilowatts in Upper Dir district, providing lo…

Japan

JERA Invests in Quaise Energy to Advance Superhot Geothermal Technology

July 14, 2026 — JERA Co., Inc., Japan’s largest power generation company, has made a strategic investment in Quaise Energy, a Houston-based developer of …

Denmark

European Energy Connects 38 MW of Battery Storage to Denmark’s Grid

July 13, 2026 — European Energy has connected battery storage systems at two sites in Denmark, bringing a combined 38 MW/152 MWh of battery capacity into opera…

Gas turbine engine

Mitsubishi Power Wins Boiler Supply Contract for Saudi Fuel Conversion Project

July 13, 2026 — Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received orders to supply key boiler components for a…

Ukraine

Ukraine Adds 415 MW of Wind Power Capacity in First Half of Year.

Ukraine launched 70 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 414.8 MW in the first half of the year, according to the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. The fi…

Gas turbine engine

Gas-fired power plant planned for Banana

Plans for a new Central Queensland gas turbine power station with a generation capacity of up to 850MW are moving through the approvals process.The gas-fired pl…

Canada

Canada Plans New Alberta-to-Pacific Oil Pipeline to Expand Asian Exports

Canada has announced on July 2 plans to build a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast, a project aimed at expanding the country’s export capa…