Webuild and its partners in the Future Generation joint-venture celebrated with Snowy Hydro Ltd. the commissioning of the first of three technologically advanced tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) assigned to Snowy 2.0, a major milestone. As the largest renewable energy project in Australia, Snowy 2.0 will expand Snowy Hydro’s network of hydro power stations to support the country’s transition to a low-carb ...

GE Power has won an order for 1.2 GW of power equipment in Malaysia. The 1.2 GW Pulau Indah Power plant being built by the consortium of Posco Engineering & Construction (POSCO), Mitsubishi Corp. and PEC Powercon Sdn. Bhd. will be powered by GE’s HA gas turbine technology and will consist of a two-block combined cycle power plant. Additionally, for the Pulau Indah Power Plant project in Selangor, Malays ...

India must phase out its coal-fired power plants by the middle of this century to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by that time, according to a new report on the challenges that’ll be posed in setting more ambitious climate targets. The nation will need to progressively reduce coal’s share in electricity generation, currently at about 65%, and remove it altogether by 2050, according to the report p ...

A consortium led by Japanese engineering company JGC Holdings has been awarded the contract to build Mongolia's first utility-scale solar-plus-storage power plant by the country's energy ministry. The 5 MW/3.6 MWh power plant will reportedly be built in partnership with Mongolian EPC contractor MCS International LLC and Japanese ceramics company and network attached storage (NAS) provider NGK Insulators Ltd ...

The numbers are in, and China seems to have shattered the world record for new wind energy installation in 2020. That’s based on analysis by the Brussels-based Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), which estimates the country’s total new installed wind capacity at 52 GW – the most ever installed in a single year anywhere on Earth, and twice what it installed in 2019. Feng Zhao, the head of market intelligence ...

Wärtsilä will carry out the conversion of a Taiwanese power plant from its current reliance on heavy fuel oil (HFO) to operate on natural gas. The cogeneration plant, located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, was originally equipped in 1998 with three Wärtsilä 46 engines. As part of the conversion project, these will be changed to three Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines providing a power output of 32 MW. The electrici ...

The deal will deepen China’s involvement in the Lao government’s goal of transforming itself into the “battery of Southeast Asia.” Earlier this week, the government of Laos and a majority Chinese-owned company signed a 25-year concession agreement that allows the company to build and manage a large part of the country’s power grid. According to a report by Radio Free Asia’s Lao service, the company, Electri ...

Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. (the "Company" or "PGTK", (OTCQB:PGTK)) announces that it has entered into an exclusive agreement to develop up to 1,100MW of battery energy storage systems ("BESS") in the United Kingdom ("UK") sourced by TUPA Energy Limited ("TUPA"). As part of the TUPA agreement, the Company has also today acquired the rights to 100MW of BESS in Kent, UK, and plans to conclude the remaini ...

New technologies for producing gas from renewable sources -– from PEM to direct seawater electrolysisTesting of hydrogen, methanol and methane for use in ships, cars and power generationSector coupling concept with LNG hub and microgrid in Rhine port of Karlsruhe. The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector h ...

Following the successful cooperation with the Renewables and Storage Development (RSD) Business Unit of MYTILINEOS (METKA EGN) in Greece, Huawei extends its business partnership with MYTILINEOS globally, signing a memorandum of cooperation regarding the supply of innovative and reliable Huawei string inverters, for PV plants including but not limited to the UK, Uzbekistan, Spain and Cypr ...