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Mexico: Power price spikes attract project developers
Ongoing reforms of Mexico’s electricity industry have been drawing attention from projects developers. The latest series of price spikes of intra-day wholesale power prices, and prospects of a gradual...
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A2A digitalises Chivasso power plant to boost performance
Italian utility A2A is using its revamped Chivasso power plant in the ancillary service market. Retrofitted with GE digital solutions, the gas-fired plant now achieves 65 MW per gas turbine minimum...
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Harnessing methane from Kivu ‘killer lake’ for power gen
Rwanda is now harnessing methane gas, trapped in Lake Kivu, to generate electricity in the 25 MW KivuWatt power plant for some two months. Tapping the gas safely helps avoid a lethal gas release....
View ArticleDECC extends investor deadline for $1bn Trafford CCGT
Dealing an initial blow to the 1.8 GW Trafford Power project, the UK government has provisionally withdrawn a capacity contract after Carlton Power missed crucial deadlines for obtaining debt financing...
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Korea to retire 10 coal power plants by 2025
Committed to curb carbon emissions, the South Korean government is enforcing the shut-down of ten ageing coal-fired power plants by 2025 – flexible gas power plants and renewables are meant to fill the...
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State choices on how to implement CPP will affect power mix
In designing the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the US Environmental Protection Agency has provided states with implementation flexibility. Adopted differences in pollutant target types, emission trading...
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Tepco, Toshiba to trial battery storage for VPPs
Toshiba Corp has struck a deal with Tepco and the Japanese city of Yokohama to launch a trial for the control of multiple, grouped storage batteries attached to Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). The pilot...
View ArticleChinese money competes with IPP funding in Africa
Project finance, notably for Independent Power Projects (IPPs), are starting to overtake public and utility financing in sub-Saharan Africa. Cost is a major stumbling block: In fact, it would cost...
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NV Energy files plan to buy Calpine CCGT in Arizona
Eager to acquire Calpine’s South Point Energy Center (530 MW) in Arizona, NV Energy has disclosed the $75.6 million purchase price and its $21 million investment budget for the combined-cycle gas power...
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Siemens to cooperate with Cuban utility UNE
Power generation and transmission infrastructure upgrades are the key points of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cuban’s state-owned utility Unión Eléctrica (UNE) and Siemens. Company heads...
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Brexit feared to add £360m to UK energy bills
Uncertainty over the future operation of Britain’s energy market, rising financing costs and post-Brexit challenges to include interconnectors in the UK’s capacity market are expected to “add a risk...
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Tightening up boiler control in CCGTs
At two US-based gas-fired combined cycle plants, controllability at the plants was a major issue, the responsible plant manager told Gas to Power Journal on condition of anonymity. Large natural gas...
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Sri Lanka wants coal power projects to be converted to LNG
China Machinery Engineering Corp (CMEC) is evaluating a 500 MW LNG-fuelled power project in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, which is meant to expanded to 1,000 MW at a later stage. President...
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ENGIE to shut down, dismantle Twinerg CCGT in Belgium
Profitability of combined-cycle gas power plant is dire in Belgium - with spill-over effects to Luxemburg. French ENGIE decided to close the 385 MW Twinerg CCGT, which mostly caters to the Belgian...
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GE to upgrade gensets at Polish district-heating plant
Veolia Energia Poland has selected GE to modernise of one of three Zamech-made turbine genset at a 275 MW district-heating plant at Poznań. Takeover and integration of Alstom Power's technology...
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NextEra calls off merger, will pay HEI $95m
Regulatory dismissal of NextEra Energy’s takeover application of Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) will see the Juno Beach-based suitor pay $95 million in “break-up” fees and other costs, the...
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Curbing peak-load demand amid uncertainty over interconnectors
Importing cheap hydropower from Norway and Denmark is deemed a ‘quick fix’ for Britain’s capacity shortage as investment in new large power projects is hard to come by. Yet, Britain’s vote to leave the...
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Hawaiian Electric abandons plans for LNG-to-power project
Just hours after the merger with NextEra Energy feel through, Hawaiian Electric Industries confirmed it is abandoning plans to import LNG through Fortis for a proposed gas-fired power plant. The...
View ArticleDOE frees up $30m for turbine components & sCO2 research
Six selected Phase-II projects have been awarded funding by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) to further develop technologies for gas turbine components and supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power...
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Siemens ships 1st ‘Made in KSA’ turbine to Jazan
In line with Saudi Aramco's ‘In-Kingdom Total Value Add’ program, Siemens has delivered the first shipment out of ten locally-produced gas turbines that will drive the Integrated Gasification Combined...
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