GE Will Support Major South Korean Coal-to-Gas Conversion

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:57:59 +0000

A coal-fired power plant in South Korea will use equipment from GE Vernova’s Gas Power business as the facility switches to burn natural gas as soon as 2027. GE Vernova […]

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South Korean President: Country Needs More Nuclear Power

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:24:41 +0000

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his country’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050 must include construction of more nuclear power generation, in a reversal of his predecessor’s call to move away from the technology. Yoon, speaking Jan. 16 at an event in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said his country would renew its […]

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POWER Digest [November 2022]

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:09:00 +0000

JX Nippon Acquires NRG’s Share of Petra Nova Carbon Capture Plant for $3.6 Million. ENEOS Group, a Japanese energy and non-ferrous metals business group that owns JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration, will

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Unit 3 at Barakah Nuclear Plant Licensed, Set to Load Fuel

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:56:32 +0000

The third unit of the Barakah nuclear power plant (NPP), the first such facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Arab world, is ready to begin fuel loading, according to a statement issued by the country’s nuclear regulatory agency on June 19. The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) on Sunday said it […]

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Latest APR-1400 Reactor Now Online at South Korea’s Shin Hanul Nuclear Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 20:10:33 +0000

The first of what could be three APR-1400 nuclear reactors at the Shin Hanul site in South Korea is now supplying electricity to the country’s power grid. Unit 1 at Shin Hanul is a 1,400-MW reactor. It was connected to the grid on June 9, just more than two weeks after the pressurized water reactor […]

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UAE’s First Reactor Gets Go-Ahead

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:16:52 +0000

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to begin commercial operation of the Middle East’s first nuclear power plant, after the country’s regulatory agency on Feb. 17 gave its approval for the start-up of the first reactor at the Barakah site. The plant can now begin loading fuel, and Unit 1 is expected to come […]

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POWER Digest [January 2020]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Engie Will Close 1 GW of Coal Generation; Adding Solar, Wind. French energy group Engie in mid-December said it will close 1 GW of coal-fired power generation assets in Peru and Chile over the next five years

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POWER Digest [August 2019]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

VW Chooses MHPS to Modernize Cogen Plant. Volkswagen AG (VW) in early July said it chose Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPS Europe) to build a gas-and-steam power plant in Wolfsburg, as part of the

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THE BIG PICTURE: World’s Biggest Power Companies

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:00:41 +0000

In 2017, the 10 largest power companies, ranked by their installed generation capacity, owned 18% of total global installed capacity, while the next-largest 15 owned around 10%—meaning that the top 25 companies own nearly 30% of global installed power generation capacity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Chinese companies account for more than one-eighth of global installed […]

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Blockchain Technology Will Transform the Power Industry

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

What began in the world of finance has moved into the power sector. Blockchain, a nascent technology most often associated with cryptocurrency, is a new frontier in the energy space, changing the way power is

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