Power

Substation

EVNNPT Installs First Digital Transformer in Hai Phong

Vietnam’s National Power Transmission Corporation has put into operation its first digital transformer station in the Thuy Nguyen district of the northern port…

Electric Car

Flexible Charging Cuts Electricity Bills and Creates Grid Stability

Steered charging of electric vehicles can provide the electricity grid with much needed flexibility.

Energy Security

Texas House Targets Power Grid Flaw that Cut Electricity to Natural Gas Facilities and Worsened February Blackouts

The lower chamber gave initial approval Monday to a series of bill responding to this year’s catastrophic power outages during a deadly winter storm.

Hydropower Plant

Mega Hydropower Project in SW China will be Fully Operational in July

With construction beginning in December 2015, the station’s first batch of electricity-generation units began generating power in June 2020.

Pumped Storage

Australian Coal Mine to Transform into Pumped Hydro Facility

Australian utility AGL is transforming its operations in a number of ways, from restructuring the company itself, to building energy storage facilities for flex…

Belarus

Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant's Second Unit's Nuclear Fuel Delivered

Nuclear fuel for the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has been delivered, the press service of the Belarusian Energy Ministry said.

Nuclear Power Plant

China Formally Approves Five New Nuclear Units

China’s state council has approved the construction of five nuclear power units, with total installed capacity of 4.9 GWe, roughly 10% of the country’s total.…

Nuclear Power Plant

KHNP to Accelerate Development of Innovative SMRs

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power said on April 19 that the company is developing an innovative small modular reactor with strong economic feasibility and safety.

Energy Security

ROK Says to Join IAEA Monitoring Team for Fukushima Wastewater Release

South Korea will make sure to participate in an international monitoring team led by the UN nuclear watchdog for Japan's planned release of nuclear polluted wat…

Geothermal Power Plant

Eden Project to Start Drilling for ‘Hot Rocks’ to Generate Geothermal Energy

If successful project will allow water to be injected down borehole to be superheated by rocks beneath

Offshore Wind Power

Turkey Holds 75 gigawatts of Offshore Wind Energy Potential

Durak told Anadolu Agency that the DÜRED was established on April 5, 2021, to bring the energy and maritime sector together and to drive investments in offshor…

Biomass Power Plant

New Rules Require more Efficient Biomass Energy Plants

That could have made the Springfield project eligible, DOER Commissioner Patrick Woodcock said.

Gas turbine engine

Clarke Energy and INNIO Deliver Romania Gas Plant

Construction has started on a gas engine peaking power plant in Romania.

Wind Power Project

Uzbekistan Signs Wind Alliance with Siemens

Country to work with German power giant on electricity generation development including renewables

Wind Farm

NextEra Swoops for 391MW US Wind Quartet

NextEra Energy Partners is to acquire wind farms in the US states of California and New Hampshire totalling 391MW from Brookfield Renewable for $733m.