Thermal power

Thermal Plant

Turkey Postpones Environmental Requirements for Thermal Power Plants

The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved an article of an omnibus bill postponing the requirement for using chimney filters and chimney gas purification syst…

Cerro Pabellón Geothermal Plant Expansion Planned to be Online in 2H of 2020

Enel Green Power in Chile expects that the third unit currently under construction at its Cerro Pabellón geothermal power plant will start operation in the sec…

Pumped Energy Storage

Successful Extraction of Lithium from Geothermal Fluid in New Zealand

New Zealand-based Geo40 has been successful in extracting near battery-grade lithium from geothermal brine at its silica extraction demonstration plant at the O…

Virtual power plant

W.A. Community Virtual Power Plant Confirms $50m Swiss Investment

Swiss investment firm SUSI Partners last week confirmed it would invest $A50 million into a residential solar-plus-battery storage project being developed by Pe…

CHP

Suncor's Cogeneration Project Is Full Steam Ahead

The cogeneration units will provide reliable steam generation required for Suncor’s extraction and upgrading operations and generate 800 megawatts (MW) of powe…

Gas turbine engine

New US Power Plant to Use Record-Setting Natural Gas Turbines

According to Caithness, the new combined-cycle electricity-generating facility will power at least 1.5 million homes in the “PJM region.”

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Global Coal Electricity Production to Fall Around 3% in 2019 - the Largest Drop on Record

Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3% in 2019, the largest drop on record. This would amount to a reduction of around 300 ter…

Gas power plant

Wärtsilä to Recommission A 215 MW Natural Gas Power Plant

Wärtsilä and EGE Haina sign natural gas power plant commissioning project and long-term service agreement in the Dominican Republic.

CHP

​Jenbacher to Boost Efficiency at HanseWerk Natur CHP Plant

German utility company HanseWerk Natur and INNIO Jenbacher have announced that a further “green” natural-gas combined heat and power (CHP) plant has been comm…

Thermal Plant

Denmark's Asnæs Plant Generates First Green Power for Zealand Grid

The new wood chip-fired generator at Asnæs Power Station in Denmark has been connected to the Zealand grid and generated power for the first time.

Steam turbine

Siemens And Mannai Team Up to Set Up Steam Turbine Repair Facility in Qatar

Siemens Qatar and Manweir, a subsidiary of Mannai Corporation, are planning to develop repair services for compressors and steam turbines used in the hydrocarbo…

Gas turbine engine

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.

Polaris Infrastructure Continues Increase in Revenues from San Jacinto Geothermal plant

Polaris Infrastructure reports positive financial results for the third quarter of 2019 with higher revenue reported for the San Jacinto-Tizate geothermal power…

Transmark Turkey Signs EPC Contract for 3.2 MW Geothermal Power Plant with Kaishan

Transmark Turkey has signed an EPC contract with Chinese supplier Zheijang Kaishan Compressor and its subsidiary Open Mountain Energy for the construction of a …

CCS

ExxonMobil and FuelCell Sign Agreement to Capture Carbon Dioxide from Industrial Facilities

ExxonMobil and FuelCell Energy, Inc. have signed a new, two-year expanded joint-development agreement to further enhance carbonate fuel cell technology for the …