Generation

Ireland

Power Generation From Wind Reaches a New Record in Ireland in February

53 per cent of Ireland’s electricity last month came from wind power.

Solar Power Plant

China Aims to Build 450 GW of Solar, Wind Power on Gobi Desert

China plans to build 450 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power generation capacity on the Gobi and other desert regions, the chief of the state planner said on…

Nuclear Policy

Reconsider Nuclear Shutdowns to Cut Gas Imports, IEA Tells EU

The IEA has set out a ten-point plan that could enable the European Union to reduce its imports of natural gas from Russia by more than one-third within a year,…

LNG

Japan’s Niihama LNG Terminal Starts Operations

Japanese joint venture Niihama LNG has launched terminal operations, starting with an LNG delivery to Japanese firm Sumitomo Chemical for use as a feedstock and…

Natural Gas

Brazil 2021 Gas Demand up 29pc as Thermal Jumps

Brazil's domestic natural gas consumption rose last year by 29pc, boosted by the expansion of thermal power generation, according to data from Brazilian gas dis…

Enlit Asia

Enlit AsiaEvent Date: 20 – 22 September 2022Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand.About Enlit AsiaFrom source to generation, from grid to consumer, the boundaries of…

LNG

Germany Targets 100% Renewable Power Generation by 2035

Germany will target to have all its electricity provided by renewable energy sources by 2035.

Wind Farm

Shell Buys into Australian Wind Farm Developer with $4 bln Project Portfolio

Global oil and gas major Shell Plc has agreed to buy a 49% stake in wind farm developer WestWind Energy's Australian arm as it looks to build a low-carbon power…

CCS

The Future of Global Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the process in which carbon dioxide that is produced during the generation of power and its industrial processes is prevente…

LNG

Japan's JERA Does Not Currently See SWIFT Ban Impacting Sakhalin 2 LNG Imports

Japan's largest power generation company JERA does not currently see the latest financial sanctions on Russia, including barring designated Russian banks from t…

SMR

Wisconsin Co-Op to Explore Adding Small Modular Nuclear Reactor to Generation Mix

NuScale Power and Dairyland Power Cooperative signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate the potential deployment of NuScale’s small modular reacto…

Solar Power Plant

Qatar’s First Solar Plant to Use 800 MW of LONGi’s Bifacial Modules

The Al-Kharsaa project is the first solar power plant in Qatar, with a total planned power generation capacity of 800MW.

Natural Gas

Hydrogen Generation Could Become a $1 Trillion Per Year Market, Goldman Sachs Says

Hydrogen has an important role to play in any transition to net-zero and its generation could develop into a market worth over $1 trillion a year, according to …

Coal Production

China Starts Building 33 GW of Coal Power in 2021, Most Since 2016

China started building 33 gigawatts of new coal-fired power generation capacity last year, the most since 2016, research published on Thursday showed, a sign th…

Solar Power Plant

Turkey Provides 97% of Energy Capacity Rise from Clean Sources

Some 97% of Turkey's electricity generation capacity that came into operation last year was from renewable energy plants.