Gas
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Press Releases
New Cologne-Merheim Gas-Fired Combined Heat and Power Plant for RheinEnergie AG Proves Successful in Commercial Operation
Advanced Combined Heat and Power plant operating with three Jenbacher J920 FleXtra gas engines New plant operations will reduce 110 million pounds (50,000 metric tons) of CO2 each year as compared to previous operations COLOGNE (Germany), JENBACH (Austria), November 18, 2020 – The new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility at the Cologne-Merheim thermal power plant […]
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Guangdong Energy Group Awards Contract to GE and Harbin Electric Corporation for HA Technology to Boost China’s Greater Bay Area’s Transition from Coal to-Gas Power
China, Dongguan, Guangdong province (November 9, 2020) — GE today announced that Chinese state-owned power utility Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd ordered three 9HA.02 gas turbines for Dongguan Ningzhou combined cycle power plant in Guangdong province, in the Greater Bay Area. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is an agglomeration of cities put forward by […]
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News
How Biden’s Presidency Could (Further) Transform the Power Sector
Joe Biden on Nov. 7 clinched the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, barring Donald Trump’s prospects for a second-term. Almost immediately, reactions from various parts of the power sector streamed in, highlighting possibilities and pitfalls of Biden’s wide-ranging energy and environment agenda. Energy, and its implications on the environment, figured prominently as […]
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Press Releases
GE Announces the Opening of a New Aeroderivative Turbine Center in Perth, Australia
New Perth Aeroderivative Services L2 facility and Tooling Store underscores GE’s commitment to provide local, flexible and faster support for aeroderivative power plant operators in Australia, which provide a total of over 2,300 MW, powered by GE’s aeroderivative technology With the first-of-this kind workshop in Australia, GE better positions itself to perform planned and unplanned […]
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Power
How the Clean Energy Transition Is Intensifying the Energy-Water Nexus
Decarbonization is posing a fundamental dilemma that could have widespread serious implications for the power sector: the clean energy transition, if not properly managed, could increase water stress, or be
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Power
Australia Launches Gas Strategy to Revitalize Power Sector
In a bid to spur economic activity and thwart a COVID-19–related downturn, Australia’s government in September set out a strategy to reset domestic power and gas priorities to tamp down power prices and
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Fuel
JERA Planning to Shift Coal Power Fleet to 100% Ammonia
Japanese firm JERA, a joint venture between TEPCO and Chubu Electric, on Oct. 13 issued a roadmap to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. The move is notable for the company whose business includes a sizable
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O&M
NETL: Meeting the Needs of the Nation’s Fossil Power Plant Fleet
Through programs such as Transformative Power Generation, High-Performance Materials, and Advanced Coal Processing, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research and development
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O&M
How to Examine Generators with Visual Inspection Robots
Inspecting generators has always been a time-consuming and expensive job, yet one that needs to be done at regular intervals. An impressive new visual inspection robot can save owners many days of unnecessary