Gas

Turbine Efficiency Group is delighted to announce the acquisition of Gas Turbine Applications Inc (“GTA”). GTA is a highly-respected after-market services provider specialising in the Saturn and Centaur industrial gas turbines. The business serves a longstanding customer base operating from facilities strategically located in Calera, OK. The acquisition creates a leading independent service provider delivering […]

Hybrid power plant solution with integrated battery energy storage Power supply with a capacity of 145 megawatts Scheduled to start operation in Santo Domingo in spring 2021 Siemens and the marine arm of ST Engineering in Singapore have jointly received an order for a SCC-800 2x1C SeaFloat barge-mounted power plant from Seaboard Corporation subsidiary Transcontinental […]

Advanced-class Peaking Power Seamlessly Integrates with Renewables using Artificial Intelligence Lake Mary, Florida – Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) announced on December 4, 2018, that a leading Midwest US utility has ordered the new super-intelligent M501GAC Enhanced Response gas turbine. The SmartER GAC is an integration of MHPS’s proven and reliable G-Series turbine technology and MHPS-TOMONI […]

The U.S. Senate on a 50-49 party-line vote December 6 confirmed Bernard McNamee to a seat on the five-member Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC), despite questions about his independence from the Trump administration and his previous comments in support of a bailout of coal and nuclear U.S. power plants at the expense of renewable […]

Orders for leading HA gas turbine booked in the third quarter in Florida and Taiwan HA has achieved more than 220,000 operating hours in the field  Customers Invenergy and Bahrain Aluminum’s HA-power plants successfully first fired Gas will play a vital role in a cleaner energy future according to newly announced GE Gas Power CEO […]

Nemo Link interconnector is a joint venture between the Transmission System Operators Elia (Belgium) and National Grid (UK), to exchange electricity up to 1,000 MW between the UK and Belgium, using high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology. Nemo Link connects the Belgian and the British power grid with a combination of subsea and underground cables. […]

POWER-GEN International kicked off on December 4 with a keynote presentation focused on evolving power generation schemes and changing business models. Gregory Lee, commission president with Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC), the municipally owned public utility that provides water and electric service to Orlando, Florida, and portions of other nearby areas, opened the conference by providing […]

Xcel Energy has announced its plan to move to 100% carbon-free power generation by 2050, with the utility also saying it will reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2030, from 2005 levels. Xcel, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serves customers in eight states and over the past two years has announced a significant number of renewable […]

It’s not particularly easy to find reliable and detailed statistics on the deployment of distributed energy systems. One reason is that a lot of distributed energy is installed behind-the-meter. As a result

Veolia Hungary Creates VPP Portfolio. Veolia Hungary in October acquired a 51% ownership share in CHP Eromu Kft., the first step in a process for Veolia to create a virtual power plant (VPP) portfolio. The