Power plants

Thermal Coal

Nevada Utility to Convert Last Coal-Fired Plant to Natural Gas

Image by Peter H from PixabayIn the US, Nevada’s largest utility plans to retire its last coal-fired plant by the end of 2025 and convert it to run on nat…

Hydrogen Production

RWE Creates Preconditions for Constructing a Hydrogen-Ready Gas-Fired Power Plant in Weisweiler

RWE plans to build hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants at its own former power plant sites in Germany by 2030 to help achieve the goal of phasing out coal 203…

Microgrid

Virtual Power Plants Can Cost-Effectively Support the Grid— If We Let Them

(A rooftop solar system.)Contributed by Mathew Sachs, CPowerStrained by the double burden of increased demand and more frequent extreme weather events, our grid…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

B&W Wins Contract to Study Beccs Conversion for Coal Power Plant

Babcock & Wilcox announced today that it has been awarded a contract by NorthStar Clean Energy to conduct a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) en…

Offshore Wind Power

Verbund AG: Acquisition of Operative Wind Power Plants in Spain With a Capacity of 257 MW and Potential for Hybridisation and Repowering

VERBUND AG hereby announces the acquisition of operative wind power plants in Spain with a total capacity of 257 MW and potential for hybridisation and repoweri…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

El Dabaa Core Catcher 'To Be Installed in October'

The first large-scale nuclear power plant item - the core catcher for El Dabaa unit 1 - is to be installed in October, the chairman of Egypt's Nuclear Power…

Thermal Coal

Power Ministry to Specify Methodology for Enhancing Coal Supply to Certain Coastal Plants

The issue relates to increasing the annual contracted quantity of coal supplied to thermal power plants on India’s coast who have inked their PPAs under S…

Thermal Plant

Delhi-NCR Power Plants Have to Blend Coal With a Minimum 5% Crop Residue Pellets

The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change in a notification on July 11 made the changes in a bid to regulate the utilisation of crop-residue by therm…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

LEAG Plans to Turn German Coal Power Station Into Green Site

Energy firm Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) is planning a Power-to-X project involving a storage facility and hydrogen production as part of an initiative to …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

South Korea Considering New Nuclear Plants

South Korea's Ministry of Industry is to review the need for new nuclear power plants to expand the country's power supply to meet predicted increased d…

Photovoltaic （PV）

PV Power to Produce About 7.838 Billion Kwh in the Last Six Months

An overview of Ca Mau 1 and Ca Mau 2 Power Plants run by PV Power in the southern province of Ca Mau. — Photo pvpower.vnThe PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Turkey 'Aiming for 20 GW of Nuclear by 2050s'

Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small mod…

Energy Storage Project

BESS Systems Planned at Four California Power Plants

Ameresco, a renewable energy asset developer, has secured an order for four battery energy storage design/build project contracts totaling 379MWH with Middle Ri…

Coal Production

Coal Supply for Thermal Power Plants to Increase by 10-15 per Cent

Mining of coal at Ha Tu Coal Joint Stock Company under Vinacomin. This year, Vinacomin expects to supply 39.7 million tonnes of coal for the electricity industr…

Hydropower Plant

Hydropower Emulation Platform Enables Testing of Large-Scale Plants in Laboratory Setting

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a groundbreaking Real-Time Hydropower Emulation Platform, enabling the testing of …