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Wind Farm

Siemens Gamesa Closes 2019 with a New Wind Energy Record in Spain

The Spanish business closed a successful year in 2019 with the installation of a new record of 1.2 GW, or 375 wind turbines, the highest amount of any year in t…

Cadiz 1085 MW Gas Power Plant will be a $1 Billion Investment

A 1,085-megawatt power plant will be constructed this year in Cadiz.

Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant in Superior Gets Wisconsin Approval

Wisconsin utility regulators Thursday approved a $700 million natural gas-fired power plant that Minnesota Power wants to build in Superior, Wis.

Nuclear Power Plant

How Drawing Digital Insights from Nuclear’s Past can Create a Safer Industry

Nearly a decade after the major earthquake and tsunami that irreversibly damaged four of Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear reactors in Japan, China and India are rea…

Energy storage technology

Energy Storage: A Necessary Part of Decarbonising, Smart Electricity Systems

2019 illustrated electricity systems’ requirement for greater flexibility, which energy storage technologies are ideally suited to provide. Two events in Great…

EU Wants to Spend 1 Trillion Euros for “Sustainable Investments” Across The Coming Decade

Financing for this will come from the EU budget, co-financing from EU member states, and contributions from the European Investment Bank and InvestEU, a major f…

Gas Turbines Have Become by Far the Best Choice for Add-on Generating Power

They offer instant-on power that's compact, mobile, quiet, economical, durable, and matchlessly efficient.

Oil & Gas Trade

Israel Starts Exporting Natural Gas to Egypt Under Landmark Deal

Israel began exporting natural gas to Egypt on Wednesday under one of the most important deals to have been signed by the neighbors since they made peace decade…

Wartsila to Switch Brazilian Power Plant to Gas

Finnish firm Wärtsilä signed a contract with Rio Amazonas Energia to convert Cristiano Rocha power plant in Manaus, Brazil, to a 100% natural gas operation.

New Technology

Mechanical Engineering Grad Student Innovates Gas Turbine Heat Sensors

Shawn Siroka, a doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering, is using his talents to innovate new heat flux sensors in gas turbine e…

Distributed energy

GE Wins Second Gas Turbine Order For Israeli Plant

GE said it has received an order for a second 9HA.01 heavy-duty gas turbine from Israel Electric Corp., the largest generator and supplier of electricity in Isr…

Nuclear Power Plant

CNL Secures Overseas Decommissioning Contract

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is to take part in the decommissioning of a prototype boiling water reactor (BWR) in Lingen, Germany under a subcontract awa…

Romanian Plan 250MW Gas Fired Power Plant

Three Romanian energy companies, two of which are wholly owned by the state, want to build a new 250 MW gas-fired power plant in Mures county.

Argan Subsidiary Scores 1,085 MW Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Harrison County

Argan, Inc. announced this week that in late December 2019 its wholly owned subsidiary, Gemma Power Systems, entered into an engineering, procurement and constr…

House Plans Oversight Session on Bill Banning Israeli Gas import

The Lower House has decided to hold an oversight session next Sunday to discuss a draft law in the making that bans the import of Israeli gas to the Kingdom.