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Rigged tenders?
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by RWE Renewables UK is pursuing a damages claim of £9.24 million against two Prysmian Group member companies under the Appeal Tribunal Rules 2015 of the UK’s Competition Act 1998. The...

Supercritical CO2 conditions achieved in San Antonio pilot
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by GTI Energy and its partners, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and GE Research, have announced that the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo project, sponsored...

Germany to build 25 GW of new gas power plants by 2030
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany will use its auction mechanism to ensure a programme of new gas power plant building, seen by government as necessary to secure supply at times...

Demand for ocean space will grow 5-fold by 2050 – DNV report
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by According to DNV’s Spatial Competition Forecast, collaboration among ocean-going industries will need to intensify for the rapid build-out of offshore wind and aquaculture to...

DTEK commissions Tyligulska wind power plant in Ukraine
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by Despite Russia's war against Ukraine, the DTEK Group has continued with completing construction of the first phase of Tyligulska wind power plant, with a capacity of 114 MW out of...

Taiwan’s Tung Hsiao power plant adds 180 MW
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by GE has announced that the Taiwan Power Company (TPC)’s Tung Hsiao Power Plant in Miaoli County has safely and successfully started grid-connected trial runs in January 2023 using six...

Vogtle Unit 3 NPP reaches initial criticality
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by On 6 March Georgia Power announced that the 1117 MW Unit 3 of its Vogtle nuclear power plant has safely reached initial criticality during the start-up testing sequence,...

Recyclable blades for Sofia offshore wind project
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by 132 recyclable blades made by Siemens are to be installed on 44 of the 100 SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbines in RWE’s Sofia offshore wind array off the UK’s east coast. It will be...

Mitsubishi No. 1 in global gas turbine market in 2022
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by Mitsubishi Power, a brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, achieved the number one market position in 2022 with a global gas turbine market share of 33% by MW, according to McCoy...

One year on – IAEA report on nuclear safety in Ukraine
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by One year on, the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a report, ‘Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine’, covering the period between February 2022 and February...

Global CO2 emissions rising less than initially feared
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by Global CO2 emissions are increasing less than initially feared, as clean energy growth offsets much of the impact of greater coal and oil use. The International Energy Agency...

The Ukraine war and the global energy crisis – IEA commentary
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Energy Agency has published commentary and analysis on how things stand concerning the war and the...

US GTs operated at record highs in summer 2022
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by The average monthly capacity factor for simple-cycle, natural gas turbine (SCGT) power plants in the United States has grown annually since 2020 according to the latest figures from...

NKT and Prysmian to create ‘world’s largest offshore cable systems’
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by NKT and Prysmian are to install five 525 kV XLPE HVDC cable connections for Dutch 2 GW projects to be completed between 2028 and 2030.

Fervo Energy to develop combined geothermal and DAC facility
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by Houston based Fervo Energy is to design and engineer a fully integrated geothermal and direct air capture facility, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). At this...

Vestas selected for Wando Geumil offshore wind project
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by Vestas has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Korea South-East Power Company (KOEN) for the 600 MW Wando Geumil offshore wind project in Wando-Gun, South Jeolla Province,...

ACWA Power inks major renewables deal with Kazakhstan government
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by ACWA Power has announced a ground-breaking partnership agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy, and with Samruk-Kazyna, the sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan,...

Demonstration of ‘clean’ plasma boosts ITER fusion
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by Scientists from EUROfusion, including researchers from the UK (UKAEA), Germany (IPP) and Belgium (ERM-KMS) and from ITER, working at the fusion device Joint European Torus (JET),...

UKAEA awards £3.1m in contracts to UK’s fusion industry
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by Eighteen organisations have secured contracts with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to demonstrate how their innovative technologies and proposed solutions can help...