Anja Karl

Exceed Geo Energy has adopted the B4ECarbon platform, designed to help monetize carbon credits, as part of a strategic power purchase agreement (PPA) with a major Texas utility company. The unnamed power producer uses B4ECarbon to sell its credits earned from producing carbon-negative electricity from a geothermal power plant.

Rayong CCGT, built by Mitsubishi Power Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of MHI, has completed the eighth and final M701JAC unit of a 5,300 MW combined-cycle gas power plant in Thailand. The two-pronged project in Chonburi and Rayong Provinces has been developed by the Thai IPP Gulf Energy Development Public Company and Mitsui & Co. of Japan, and is now in full commercial operation.

With consultations for Germany’s new Power Plant Safety Act (KWSG) ended, the industry association BDEW warned it will be difficult to find investors in hydrogen-ready power stations. “Fundamental points, such as maximum prices that enable hybrid operation and the level of penalties must be revised,” said BWED head Kerstin Andreae.

Responding to Europe’s energy crisis, Norway issued 62 new oil & gas licenses at the beginning of the year while operators turn to an AI-focussed approach, instrumental for production to reach record highs this year. Energy minister Terje Asland confirmed the government will continue to develop the petroleum sector and technologies for the future.

Crude oil and oil-indexed natural gas and LNG contracts have traded down after Israeli air strikes on Iran spared key energy infrastructure. Most analysts still hope tensions will not escalate into a regional war scenario, as targeted attacks could wipe out 1.4 million bpd of Iranian production and a full-blown war would choke the Strait of Hormuz, risking up to 12 million bpd of oil exports to global markets.

Ansaldo Energia has completed the upgrade of ENGIE’s 393.5 MW Leinì power station near Turin in Italy’s Piedmont region with a new AE94.3A gas turbine...

Ningzhou power plant (2.4 GW) Guandong Energy Group has started operations of the Dongguan Ningzhou power plant, one of the largest gas-fired power plants in China. Powered by three 9HA.02 gas turbines, is expected to inject up to 2.4 GW of electricity in addition to the 1.34 GW already delivered into the grid by the HA-powered Huizhou power plant.

Castle Bluff Energy Center, an 800 MW open-cycle gas turbine-driven power station (OCGT) built at the site of the former coal-fired Meramec Energy Cen...

More effective use of land facilitates a faster rollout of renewables: co-locating solar PV on farmland through agrivoltaics could meet the world’s hi...

Saudi operator Ash Sharqiyah and GE Vernova have completed Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) studies for three hydrogen-ready power generation at co...