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Powering India: The ultra-mega challenge
India is home to over 1.1 billion people, making it the world’s second most populous country after China.
A green and pleasant land?
In an exclusive interview with PEi, UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks MP discusses the energy policy of the Brown government, including the pioneering carbon capture and storage competition, plans for new nuclear power stations, and how the country will meet “hugely ambitious” renewables targets.
The need for flexible speed: 0-100 MW in minutes
The dilemma of steam cycle power plants that are typically fired with coal or natural gas (combined cycles) is that the steam system takes several hours to start up.
Sunny outlook for concentrated juice
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has in recent years been revitalized in Europe, notably in Spain, and the rest of the world.
Engaging the customer in pricing
Across the globe, energy policy makers are exploring new ways to use electricity prices to engage with customers more directly.
China takes a giant leap to ultrasupercritical technology
The eye-popping economic growth of China, contrary to popular perception, is having some positive impact on the environment.
Packing a powerful punch
Power plant owners and operators worldwide are seeking ever swifter deliveries of new generating capacity and demanding that suppliers minimize costs and increase efficiency.
Compression: There’s something in the air
In today’s power generation industries, compressed air is absolutely everywhere!
Sharpening the cutting edge
At the end of the 1970s there were plans afoot for a fifth nuclear plant in Finland.
Transformer prices: Is the only way up?
The power industry buzzes with talk of transformer prices.
Renewables: An essential part of Germany’s future
The village of Dardesheim lies at the edge of the Hartz Mountains in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Solar: Big can be beautiful
Arnstein located in the German state of Bavaria, is the location of the world’s biggest photovoltaic (PV) power plant with an output capacity of 12 MW.
Progress in offshore wind power moving forward at a rate of knots
The honour of having the largest wind energy market in the world goes to Germany, with an installed capacity of 22 247 MW by the end of 2007.
Should the EU celebrate this unbundle of joy?
In my editorial this month I thought I would take the opportunity to focus on two topics that are back in the headlines – ownership unbundling of Europe’s large power companies and the UK’s nuclear future.
Has the Commission finally levelled Europe’s playing field?
E.ON has caved in to pressure from the European Commission’s commitment to ownership unbundling by agreeing to sell its power grid and some generating assets.
INTERNATIONAL
Algeria could start exporting solar power to Germany by 2013, according to Tewfik Hasni, president and general manager of the country’s renewable energy agency, New Energy Algeria.
EUROPE
E.ON has told the European Commission that it plans to sell its electricity-grid and some generating assets to settle antitrust cases.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Toshiba has opened a facility to research the use of liquid sodium coolant in fast breeder reactors (FBRs).
AMERICAS
The California Public Utilities commission has approved feed-in tariffs for renewable energy that allow residents or businesses with clean power-generating sources like solar or biogas to sell electricity to large utility companies.
COMPANIES
Bulgaria is to merge five of its energy companies to boost the competitiveness of their operations in the region and the rest of Europe.
Genset Roundup
GE Oil & Gas has announced that its DLN-1 IBH emissions technology, which enables Frame 5-2 gas turbines running at partial load to meet new NOX emission standards, has been self-certified as a GE Ecomagination service offering.
EquipmentRoundup
Modern cooling fan arrangements used in CCGT power stations are compact solutions for the removal of unwanted energy from the combined-cycle process.
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