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Natural gas has displaced (most) coal-fired generation in Pennsylvania
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by The US Energy Information Administration reports that natural gas-fired power plants generated 2% of the electricity produced in Pennsylvania in 2001. Over the following 20 years, that...

200 MW gas plant for Ireland’s reserve
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 by GE Gas Power and MYTILINEOS have secured an order from the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland (ESB)) for the construction of a new gas-fired power plant in Dublin, co-located with...

John Cockerill designs the world’s largest HRSG
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by The Awirs power plant, in Flémalle, Liege, Belgium, will be replaced by 2025 with a new 875 MW combined cycle thermal power plant. Its operator, Engie, has contracted John Cockerill...

First utility-scale PP with near-zero emissions to be built in Texas
Tuesday, November 08, 2022 by NET Power announced on 7 November its plan to develop and build what is believed to be the world’s first utility-scale natural gas-fired power plant with near-zero atmospheric...

US gas fired generation down for the first time in four years
Tuesday, November 01, 2022 by According to the Energy Information Administration’s recently released Natural Gas Annual, natural gas consumption in all sectors in the United States was effectively flat between...

Mitsubishi completes 2650 MW GTCC PP in Thailand
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of MHI, on 1 October commenced operation of the fourth and final M701JAC unit at an ultra-large-scale natural gas-fired power plant in...

1.4 GW Bang Pakong PS starts commercial operations
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 by GE and Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, the main electricity producer in the country, announced on 8 September the start of commercial operation of EGAT’s Bang Pakong...

Upgrade for iconic Cameroon power plant
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 by Wärtsilä is to carry out an upgrade of the electrical and automation systems to improve reliability of the Kribi power plant in the Republic of Cameroon. The 216 MW plant has been...

US gas fired generation hit a daily record in July
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 by The US Energy Information Administration’s Hourly Electric Grid Monitor indicates that in the lower 48 states, power generated by natural gas-fired plants reached 6.37 million MWh on...

Indeck Niles 1.1 GW energy centre comes online
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 by On July I Indeck Energy Services along with its Korean partners KOSPO and DL Energy, officially notified the start of commercial operations of the Indeck Niles Energy Center to...

German government increased coal reserves
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 by To counteract future gas supply shortages, the German cabinet has decided on new regulations for the provision of backup power stations that will minimise the use of natural gas in...

RWE acquires 1.4 GW power plant from Vattenfall
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 by RWE is to acquire from Vattenfall the 1.4 GW gas-fired power plant ‘Magnum’ at Eemshaven, the Netherlands, in the province of Groningen. The two companies have signed an agreement to...

GE secures first 9HA CCPP order in Vietnam
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 by GE has secured an order from Samsung C&T Corporation, which is leading the EPC consortium that will provide power generation equipment for units 3 and 4 of PetroVietnam...

Hydrogen retrofit for Rotterdam Capelle
Thursday, May 12, 2022 by Thomassen Energy is to retrofit one of Uniper’s Rotterdam Capelle (RoCa) power plant’s gas turbines with its HyFlex LEC-III combustion system, which can be operated with a variable...

Twenty20 Energy to build gas fired PP in Papua New Guinea’s highland region
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 by Twenty20 Energy Systems has announced plans to design, build and maintain a 66 MW gas-fired power plant in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province on behalf of Dirio Gas & Power Company....

World’s first centre for H2 system validation
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 by Mitsubishi Power, an MHI subsidiary, is planning to establish the world’s first centre for validation of hydrogen-related technologies, from hydrogen production to power generation.

German chancellor suspends Nord Stream 2
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 by German chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country’s economy ministry to initiate steps that will effectively put the certification process for the contentious Nord Stream 2...

A second Siemens HL class turbine for South Korea
Tuesday, February 01, 2022 by Siemens Energy has received another order to deliver its HL-class power plant technology to South Korea.

Italy’s increasing focus on system balance
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 by A2A Gencogas, Italy, has contracted with Wärtsilä for the supply of a natural gas fuelled 110 MW flexible power plant for its Cassano d’Adda facility.