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Weathering the perfect storm
Ron Wallace, IBM’s Tivoli utilities industry marketing manager, outlines his three-pronged approach to atackling power utilities’ need to address the increasing problem of inefficient IT systems.
Power plant: From Water Guzzler to Water Producer
A power plant that does not need a supply of expensive potable water could soon be a reality, thanks to a membrane system that recovers clean water from flue gas.
Offshore wind: how to take action for a more uncertain future
If the offshore wind industry is to be taken seriously, it will need to address its reliability and technical difficulties.
NorNed: giving Europe’s power trading a welcome boost
Commissioned in May and officially opened in September of this year, NorNed is the world’s longest submarine high-voltage power cable.
Controlling a Hungarian NOx uprising
PEi visits AES Tisza II, near Budapest, Hungary, home to a 900 MWe gas and light oil fired power plant.
Can coal be king again?
The world faces an apparently intractable problem. It must generate more electricity to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the global economy while taking action to reduce carbon emissions.
Wind turbines: The seal deal
Donna Guinivan, from polymer technology company Trelleborg, visited AVN Energy to get the full story on the two companies’ wind power actuator seal collaboration and the latest news on AVN’s wind turbine research and development effort.
GCC: The Backbone of Power Sector Reform
Since 1981 the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have made substantial reforms to their electricity sectors.
Fujairah F2 IWPP: A jewel in the desert
Due for completion in 2010 Fujairah F2 will not only be Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority’s seventh independent water and power plant (IWPP), but also its largest.
IEA: Low-carbon must take centre-stage
Surrounded by gloomy reports on the economical situation we all face, I was heartened to read in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) recently published 2008 edition of its World Energy Outlook (WEO 2008) that the current financial crisis is not expected to affect the long-term investment in energy infrastructure including those in the power sector.
Sailing through choppy waters
As the credit crunch bites, the implications for the power industry during the economic slump are uncertain.
INTERNATIONAL
Renewable energy will overtake natural gas to become the second largest source of power generation worldwide “after 2010”, according to the International Energy Agency.
EUROPE
France is to multiply by 400 the amount of solar power used in the country in the next 12 years as part of its plan to double the share of renewables in consumed energies to 23 per cent by 2020.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia’s Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has marked the official start of work on a pilot retrofit low-emission power station project in Queensland.
AMERICAS
Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), a business unit of American Electric Power Company (AEP) has been issued a final air permit that will allow it to begin construction of the 600 MW John W. Turk Jr. coal fired power plant.
COMPANIES
Theolia of France, one of Europe’s leading producers of electricity from wind, has announced it is to scale down its business ambitions and reduce costs, to focus on cash generation amid the on-going global financial crisis.
Genset Roundup
MAN Diesel recently completed the first retrofit of its advanced dual-fuel technology on an existing heavy-fuel engine in a stationary application.
Equipment Roundup
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) has secured its first phase of orders for the American civil nuclear power market, thanks to a stainless steel component originally created for China.
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