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Vectren Will Close Coal Units, Add Renewables
Vectren Corp., the electric utility that serves much of southern Indiana, has announced a plan to shutter its remaining coal-fired power plants and transition to renewable energy. The utility also said it would add gas-fired generation to back up those renewable resources. Vectren’s June 15 announcement comes about two years after Northern Indiana Public Service […]
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Gas
Competitive Power Ventures St. Charles Energy Center Wins Combined Cycle Journal Best Practices Award
Braintree, MA (June 16, 2020) — Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced today that its St. Charles Energy Center won the Combined Cycle Journal (CCJ) 2020 Best Practices Award. Additionally, the CPV Valley and Woodbridge Energy Centers received honorable mentions in the 501F category and 7FA category, respectively. “We are honored to see the CPV St. […]
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IEA: COVID-19 Crushed Global Natural Gas Demand
Hit hard by response to the COVID-19 pandemic, global gas demand in 2020 is set to to tumble by twice the amount lost after the 2008 global financial crisis—its largest annual decline in history—the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its latest annual market report Gas 2020. As of June 2020, the fall has been […]
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Alabama PSC Backs Plan for New Gas Generation
Alabama Power’s plan to add about 2 GW of natural gas-fired power generation capacity to its portfolio was approved by the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) on June 9. The PSC also supported the utility’s request to acquire 240 MW of gas-fired generation under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) that should begin this year, […]
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Press Releases
Maxim Power Corp. Commissions M2, the Largest Simple Cycle Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Alberta
CALGARY, Alberta (June 1, 2020) – Maxim Power Corp. (“MAXIM” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: MXG) announces it has successfully commissioned its 204 MW natural gas-fired power plant (“M2”) located near Grande Cache, Alberta. M2 began generating electricity to the Alberta power grid on May 8, 2020 during commissioning and successfully demonstrated its maximum generating capacity […]
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Hydrogen
World’s First Integrated Hydrogen Power-to-Power Demonstration Launched
A consortium of European companies, research institutes, and universities have launched the world’s first demonstration of a fully integrated power-to-hydrogen-to-power project, at industrial scale and in a real-world power plant application. The four-year project to demonstrate HYFLEXPOWER, which has achieved a technology readiness level of 7, will convert a 12-MWe combined heat and power (CHP) […]
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Press Releases
Siemens to supply equipment for large-scale gas field development offshore Malaysia
June 2, 2020 — Siemens Gas and Power was recently awarded a contract to supply three SGT-300 industrial gas turbine generators (GTG), three mechanical-drive SGT-300 gas turbines and three DATUM centrifugal compressors for the PETRONAS Kasawari Gas Field Development Project in the South China Sea, offshore Sarawak in Malaysia. The customer, Malaysia Marine and Heavy […]
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Gas
T-Point 2 Is a Proving Ground for Gas Turbine Advancements
It may be unusual to recognize a demonstration facility with POWER’s Plant of the Year award, but T-Point 2 is a remarkable unit that is poised to change the way power plants operate. Besides validating new
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A Multi-Layered Reinvention: AES Southland Projects
Recognizing excellence in creative problem-solving to give a project new life and a new role, POWER magazine’s 2020 Reinvention Award goes to two gas-fired power plant construction projects completed
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With Vogtle Completion in Sight, Southern Company Targets Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
Fresh off the announcement that the final module for Vogtle Unit 3 was placed at the nuclear expansion project in Georgia, Southern Company said on May 27 that it was setting “a long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.” The announcement was made during Southern Company’s annual stockholders meeting, which […]