Dec

Myanmar Orders Fast-Track Gas Engine Plants to Beat Blackouts

The government of Myanmar has ordered two fast-track power plants to try to put an end to large-scale blackouts.

GE to Add 253 MW to Côte d’Ivoire Gas Turbine Plant

GE is to carry out a 253 MW gas turbine extension to a power plant in Côte d’Ivoire which is expected to deliver 30 per cent of the country’s electricity.

Financial Close Reached for Expansion of Azito Gas-Fired Power Plant

A financial close has been reached to pave way for expansion of Azito gas-fired power plant in Côte d’Ivoire. Independent power producer Globeleq and IPS (Wes…

Quadra’s 223 MW Voronezh Combined Cycle Plant Achieves Commercial Operation

Quadra Power Generation has announced that its Voronezh CHPP-1 combined-cycle power plant achieved the start of commercial operation, using four of GE’s SPRINT…

Solar Power Plant

150MW Hungarian Solar Power Plant Project Obtains $125M Investment Proposal from Capital Corp Merchant Banking

With the EU raising the price of lignite in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases and fight against climate change, the Hungarian government has decided to turn …

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Uniper to End its Hard-coal-fired Power Production in Germany

Uniper is moving forward with its transformation and the further decarbonization of its portfolio.

Stadtwerke Kiel Replaces Coal Plant with Cutting-Edge CHP Facility

A power station hailed as one of Europe’s most modern and flexible combined heat and power plants is now operational on the site of a former coal-fired plant i…

Market Analysis

UK Regulator Ofgem Launches Decarbonisation Plan

The UK Government’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) has set out its plan to bring the country’s emissions to net zero.

Coal Mine

Angloto Decide This Year on Fate of South African Thermal Coal Assets

Global miner Anglo American expects to decide this year whether to sell its South African thermal coal business, Chief Executive Mark Cutifani told Reuters on M…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Endesa to Close Two Giant Spanish Coal Plants

Endesa on Dec. 27 formally moved to shutter two massive coal-fired power plants—the 1.4-GW As Pontes plant in A Coruña, Galicia, which is the biggest coal-fir…

Solar Company

Duke Energy Renewables’ Largest PV Project in Texas Begins Operations

Duke Energy Renewables’ 100MW Lapetus Solar project in Andrews County, Texas, began commercial operation in December 2019.

Geothermal Power Plant

California Geothermal Energy to Grow for the First Time in Nearly a Decade

Two new geothermal power plants have been planned for the Golden State.

GE Renewable Energy & ENMAX to Implement Canadas First Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine System

GE Renewable Energy and ENMAX announced that they have reached an agreement to upgrade an existing LM6000 Gas Turbine (GT) at ENMAX’s Crossfield Energy Center …

Nuclear Technology

Engineers Publish New Research on Meltdown Materials

Engineers at the UK's University of Sheffield have developed materials that they say could be used to help decommission the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear powe…

Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Radioactive Water Should be Released Into Ocean, Say Japan Experts

Build-up of contaminated water from wrecked nuclear plant has been sticking point in clean-up likely to take decades.