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Opening of first dual-fuel gas and green hydrogen plant in Australia
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 by GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and EnergyAustralia have announced the opening of the Tallawarra B Power Station, in New South Wales, Australia. Powered by GE’s 9F.05 gas turbine,...

1200 MW gas fuelled project to replace coal firing
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 by Sandow Lakes Energy Co, headquartered in Rockdale, Texas has outlined its plans to pursue the construction of a 1200 MW natural gas-fuelled power plant of an ultra-efficient design....

Global gas demand set for stronger growth in 2024
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 by The growth in global gas demand is rebounding and set to pick up in 2024 owing to colder winter temperatures and easing prices, with emerging economies leading the increase...

Bydgoszcz will be Poland’s largest gas-fuelled power plant to be ‘H2 ready’
Tuesday, February 06, 2024 by INNIO Group has announced that five Jenbacher J920 FleXtra engines will power a 50 MWe combined heat and power project in Bydgoszcz, Poland, for PGE Energia Ciepła S.A. (PGE).

NJ Transit scraps plan for gas-fired backup plant
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by New Jersey’s public transit agency announced on 26 January that it is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fuelled by natural gas, in response to the...

SA to fill power gap with gas projects and NPP extension
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by South Africa’s state-owned power utility Eskom is accelerating plans for 3 GW of gas-fired power generation to help to fill an energy deficit that is damaging the economy....

H-class combined cycle plants to replace German coal power plants
Tuesday, November 07, 2023 by GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has secured two orders from EnBW to provide H-Class natural gas-fired combined cycle power generation equipment for EnBW’s combined heat and power...

The 1.8 GW Hamriyah PP starts commercial operations
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by In the run-up to COP28, Sharjah Electricity, Water, and Gas Authority (SEWA), Sharjah Hamriyah Independent Power Company (SHIPCO), and GE Vernova have announced the start of...

Lingen 250 kW electrolyser produces first H2
Tuesday, October 03, 2023 by The GET H2 TransHyDE joint project based in Lingen has reached an important milestone: hydrogen has been produced for the first time on the site of the RWE gas-fired power plant...

Approval for construction of large electrolyser plant in Germany
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 by A 200 MW hydrogen project in Germany has passed an important milestone – the authorities in Oldenburg have granted permission to the operating company Nukleus Green H2, a subsidy of...

GE Vernova starts commercial operations at JERA’s Futtsu power plant
Tuesday, September 05, 2023 by GE Vernova’s Gas Power business on 28 August announced the successful start of commercial operations for JERA’s 1.5 GW Futtsu power plant–Group 4 located in Chiba, Japan. It is powered...

Irsching 6 gas-fired plant to go ahead
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 by On August 10, Bavarian minister president Dr Markus Söder gave the official go-ahead for the commissioning of the new Irsching 6 gas-fired power plant near Ingolstadt. The 300 MW...

GE Vernova wins express GT order from ESB
Tuesday, August 01, 2023 by GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has won orders for the supply, operation and maintenance activities of a simple cycle power plant consisting of eight GE LM2500XPRESS aeroderivative...

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...

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...