All articles by Tracey Honney
Tracey Honney
Cyber security: the key to ensuring a renewable future
Why the renewable energy sector lacks sufficient cyber security protection, how technical and behavioural aspects of operations expose critical assets to malicious attacks, and what can be done about it.
Seeing the big picture in the UK’s energy transition
The UK is pressing ahead with plans for a whole energy system operator, the National Energy System Operator (NESO), with responsibility for network and market design. In this interview, NESO’s Director of Strategic Energy Planning, Julian Leslie, tells MPS the body is ‘breaking new ground’.
CC efficiency record broken at Keadby PS
Siemens Energy’s SGT5-9000HL Gas Turbine at SSE Thermal’s Keadby 2 power station in North Lincolnshire, UK is now Guinness World…
Siemens awarded $1.5 bn contract in Saudi Arabia
Siemens Energy is supplying power plant technology that will provide almost 4 GW of capacity to Saudi Arabia, which is pursuing…
Equinor wins two new CO₂ storage licences
Equinor has been awarded the operation contracts for the development of two new CO2 storage facilities in the North Sea.…
Vestas receives 577 MW wind order in Australia
Vestas has been awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the second stage of the Golden Plains Wind…
‘US up to 15 years behind China’ in nuclear power’
The United States is at least a decade and possibly fifteen years behind China in nuclear power, according to a…
Uniper recommissions Happurg pumped-storage plant
Uniper has taken the decision to re-commission its pumped storage plant in Happurg, east of Nuremberg. The company is investing…
Investments are failing to keep renewables aims on track
Despite last year’s record surge of US$1.8 trillion in clean energy investment, including $660 billion earmarked for renewables, investment remains…
DNV’s solar asset modelling launched in Europe
DNV, the independent energy assurance provider, announced on 21 June the expansion of its Solar Resource Compass online software platform…