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HRSG design, installation, and O&M: lessons learned 10 April, 2024 Adoption of best practices based on in-depth experience of HRSG project challenges can yield significant benefits, including higher efficiency, less emissions and reduced...

Detecting LV-grid pre-faults 03 April, 2024 Electricity networks face a constant challenge to minimise downtime and prevent outages from storm-related faults, which can be as many as 100-200 per day in the UK, for example, with...

Hydrogen, the burning issue at Tallawarra 03 April, 2024 Following a two year construction period, GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and EnergyAustralia have announced entry into commercial operation of the $300 million 320 MWe...

Making the energy transition a reality 27 March, 2024 Energy transition initiatives abound in Rotterdam.

ABB sees potential in gravity energy storage 13 March, 2024 ABB has signed an MoU with Gravitricity with a view to collaborating on accelerating the deployment of gravity energy storage systems in former mines.

Germany’s energy transition: why big batteries must be included 06 March, 2024 A study by Frontier Economics – commissioned by Fluence, BayWa r.e., ECO STOR, enspired, and Kyon Energy – provides valuable insights for advancing the energy transition in Germany.

sCO2 on the horizon in the EU 06 March, 2024 As reflected in a current series of webinars organised by ETN Global (with the ETN, previously European Turbine Network, now standing for Energy & Turbomachinery Network), there is...

Fossil fuels to be banned 06 March, 2024 Eight years after the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015 kicked off climate change as a global issue, COP28 delegates agreed a viable route to a ban on all fossil fuels for power...

Waste trucks become active players in UK grid 29 February, 2024 Recent vehicle-to-grid trials in the UK have shown how the batteries installed in parked electrified waste collection trucks can operate as stationary energy storage capacity,...

‘Breakthrough’ for energy storage launched 28 February, 2024 A new energy storage technology, described by its maker as ‘cutting-edge’, has been developed by green energy company Superdielectrics Group. The technology stems from an...

Looking ahead to the 2024 World Energy Congress 22 February, 2024 Q&A with Jeroen Van Hoof, leader of the organising committee for the 2024 World Energy Congress, to be held in Rotterdam, 22-25 April.

Funding breakthrough for Energy Dome 21 February, 2024 Energy Dome, developer of CO2-based thermo-mechanical energy storage technology – which it sees as “the only viable alternative for long-duration energy storage today” – has...

sCO2 and CO2 as working fluids for power generation and storage 15 February, 2024 Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is clearly a problem. But using the thermodynamic properties of this versatile molecule in modern power systems can be an opportunity.

Zinc–manganese: a much needed alternative to lithium–ion? 15 February, 2024 ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg) in Ulm has joined forces with partners to create the ORRCABATT project, with the aim of developing...

Adding carbon capture for negative emissions 14 February, 2024 The addition of carbon capture technology to energy-from-waste and biomass plants is attracting increasing interest, with Aker Carbon Capture emerging as a key player.

Hitachi Energy’s HyFlex: the diesel engine killer 14 February, 2024 Data centres are among the applications envisaged for Hitachi Energy’s HyFlex(TM) fuel cell based hydrogen power generator, developed in partnership with Gothenburg based fuel...

Cooling supercomputers: a new role for old mines 14 February, 2024 A feasibility study, part of the Edinburgh Geobattery project, is underway to see if waste heat from the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) can be stored...

Saft helps Microsoft go diesel free 13 February, 2024 Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has delivered a battery energy storage system to replace diesel backup gensets at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden. The system can be seen as a...

EU market redesign: pivotal for storage 12 February, 2024 On 14 December 2023, the Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement to reform the EU’s Electricity Market Design (EMD), with the goal of reducing dependence on volatile...