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European Project Launches to Demonstrate High-Volume Hydrogen Gas Turbine Combustion

February 16, 2023 admin ansaldo energia, Business, combustion technology, engineering, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, gt36, hydrogen, International, news, Research and Development, SCIENCE, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:18:42 +0000

Ansaldo Energia and partners have kicked off the FLEX4H2, a four-year project to design, develop, and validate a highly fuel-flexible gas turbine combustion system based on Ansaldo’s sequential combustion technology that will be capable of operating with up to 100% hydrogen. The FLEX4H2 (or Flexibility for Hydrogen) officially began on Jan. 1 and will run […]

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European Project Launches to Demonstrate High-Volume Hydrogen Gas Turbine Combustion

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:18:42 +0000

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Reconsider Distribution Transformer Efficiency Standards, Power Groups Urge DOE

February 16, 2023 admin appa, Business, distributed power, distribution transformers, DOE, EEI, full coverage, gridwise, news, nreca, supply chain, supply chains, Technology, transformers

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:12:32 +0000

Three major electric power trade groups in a letter on Feb. 15 urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to reconsider proposed energy efficiency conservation standards for distribution transformers, citing “severe and ongoing supply chain challenges that have prolonged and complicated distribution transformer production and availability.” The letter was sent ahead of a public meeting scheduled […]

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Centrus Competes Construction, Initial Testing of HALEU Demonstration Cascade

February 10, 2023 admin acm100m, Business, centrifuge, centrus, Fuel, full coverage, haleu, news, Nuclear, nuclear enrichment, nuclear fuel, Research and Development, SCIENCE, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:25:48 +0000

Marking a major milestone, Centrus Energy—a firm under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) with domestic technology—on Feb. 9 said it completed construction and initial testing of its advanced uranium enrichment centrifuge cascade as well as most of its associated support systems. Once the company […]

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Kenya Gearing Up to Build 35-MW Geothermal Power Plant at Menengai Steam Field

February 10, 2023 admin Business, full coverage, gdc, geothermal, kengen, Kenya, menengai, news, olkaria, Renewables, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:59:52 +0000

Kenya is readying to kick off construction of the 35-MW Menengai geothermal power project in Nakuru County as part of the first phase of the wider Menengai complex, the country’s second large-scale geothermal field developed after Olkaria. The project is being developed by Globeleq, an Africa-focused independent power producer and project developer that is 70% […]

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Cutting Costs with Technology-Driven Improvements

February 7, 2023 admin automation, Business, full coverage, IBM, Instrumentation & Controls, news, O&M, power, power podcasts, Technology, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:54:52 +0000

If you’ve been in the power industry workforce for any significant length of time, you may have asked your supervisor at some point “Why am I doing this?” regarding a task that you were assigned, only to have them respond, “We’ve always done it this way.” That’s because the power industry has a reputation for […]

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Cutting Costs with Technology-Driven Improvements

February 7, 2023 admin automation, Business, full coverage, IBM, Instrumentation & Controls, news, O&M, power, power podcasts, Technology, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:54:52 +0000

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First LNG-Fired CCGT Unit Begins Operation at JERA’s Giant Modernized Gas Plant in Japan

February 3, 2023 admin anegasaki, Business, ccgt, energy security, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, ge, h-class, International, Japan, jera, lng, m701jac, Markets, news, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:34:34 +0000

Japanese power generator JERA has launched commercial operation of the first of three liquefied natural gas (LNG)–fueled 650-MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units that will modernize the Anegasaki Thermal Power Station, a mammoth 3.2-GW, six-unit gas and oil power plant in Chiba Prefecture. The new Anegasaki Thermal Power Station Unit 1, opened on Feb. […]

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Major Nuclear Players Team on Innovative Construction Delivery Approach for BWRX-300 SMR at Darlington

February 3, 2023 admin aecom, Business, bwrx-300, construction approach, contract, darlington, darlington new nuclear project, full coverage, ge hitachi, integrated project delivery, International, Markets, news, Nuclear, Ontario, opg, Plant Design, snc lavalin, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:26:29 +0000

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), SNC-Lavalin, and Aecon have signed a trailblazing six-year alliance agreement designed to bolster the deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at the Darlington New Nuclear Project (DNNP) in Clarington, Ontario. The contract unveiled on Jan. 27—a year after OPG selected GEH’s BWRX-300 for the […]

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What Will a Fusion Power Plant Look Like?

February 2, 2023 admin full coverage, fusion, general atomics, International, iter, news, Plant Design, power, power plant, Research and Development, Technology, tokamak

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:19:00 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the process by

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