Global Monitor
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Renewables
POWER Digest (July 2017)
India to Sell Only Electric Vehicles by 2030. India’s power minister Piyush Goyal said at a Confederation of Indian Industry session in April that the government plans to make all its cars electric by 2030
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Renewables
Researchers Develop Hybrid Salinity Gradient Power Technology
A hybrid technology created by researchers at Penn State University could be the breakthrough needed to advance efforts to produce power based on the salt concentrations between two water sources. Researchers
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Gas
SCE, GE Debut Battery-Gas Turbine Hybrid System
Southern California Edison (SCE) put online the world’s first battery–gas turbine hybrid system on March 30 in Norwalk, Calif., pioneering a new direction in the way power could be generated and stored
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Renewables
IRENA: Solar and Bioenergy See Record Growth in 2016
Global renewable energy generation capacity surged 161 GW in 2016, marking its strongest year ever for new capacity additions, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said in a new report released at
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Gas
Validation Wraps Up for GE, Ansaldo Gas Turbines
In May, GE’s Power Services and Ansaldo Energia separately completed initial validation of two gas turbines designed for high efficiency and flexibility: the 9EMax and the GT36. GE also announced first fire
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Legal & Regulatory
A Double Whammy for Coal Power in Europe
Coal generation in Europe was walloped—twice—in April. Early in the month, members of EURELECTRIC, a pan-European power sector association of more than 3,500 companies, announced that it would cease
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Coal
POWER Digest (June 2017)
India Joins IEA as an Association Country. India joined the International Energy Agency (IEA) as an association country on March 30, marking a significant move for the country into global energy affairs. The
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Renewables
Geothermal Drilling in Iceland Reaches Supercritical Target
A unique collaborative effort by a consortium of Icelandic power companies and the Icelandic government to determine whether using supercritical geothermal fluids would improve the economics of power
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