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Energy Pools – a new approach to energy financing
Chris Cook, former director of compliance and market supervision at the London-based International Petroleum Exchange, outlines new ways of financing and trading energy, such as the Nordic Enterprise Trust’s North Sea Master Partnership – a framework for investment in offshore wind and other energy production, and for the proposed North Sea HVDC Supergrid infrastructure.
Europe’s nuclear renaissance: stalled or speeding ahead?
Is the hype over a so-called European ‘nuclear renaissance’ just that – hype? Deputy Editor and conference director of PennWell’s new conference and exhibition Nuclear Power Europe, Tim Probert examines the evidence.
Australia fast-tracking the development of IGCC with CCS
The original objective of Australia’s ZeroGen project was to build a 80 MW net integrated gasification combined-cycle demonstration facility, before scaling up to a 300 MW net facility with carbon capture and storage (CCS) by 2017.
How to win engineers and influence young people
The skills gap in the global power industry is well documented. Steve Seddon, director of Morson Projects, the design consulting arm of technical recruitment consultants Morson Group, discusses the importance of encouraging young people into the power engineering sector.
Pnu tricks: compressed air energy storage
PEi visits the headquarters of Energetix, a UK firm specializing in low cost energy efficiency products, to find out more about Pnu Power – a pneumatic battery that is set to challenge lead acid batteries as the energy storage medium of choice for uninterruptible power supplies for high ambient temperatures.
Pipeline rehabilitation: Stretching the limits of possibility
The fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) lining retrofit of the 1.75 km long concrete pipeline at El Encanto hydropower plant in Costa Rica is the largest such pipeline retrofit job completed in a single phase to date in the world.
Cooling flue gas to maximize power plant efficiency
The high efficiency rating of the new generating unit currently under construction at the Polish power station Belchatow, will, to a certain extent, be due to the implementation of innovative flue gas coolers equipped with heat exchange pressure hoses made from AlWaFlon®, a robust PTFE-based material.
South Africa: Time is ripe for independent power
Africa’s biggest producer of electricity is at a crossroads. On-off plans for nuclear power seem to be ‘on’ again and the regulatory red tape that has thwarted independent power producers could be cut, says Chris Webb.
Are power engineers facing extinction?
Heralded as the “dawn of human engineering”, new research published in Science, the highly regarded academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has discovered that early modern humans in South Africa were using ‘heat treatment’ to improve their stone tools at least 72 000 years, if not 165 000 years ago.
China: stoking up action on climate change
Technological developments in the fast-advancing field of clean coal technology, such as integrated gasified combined-cycle power plants, will do more to curb global carbon emissions than an army of politicians, writes Tim Probert.
INTERNATIONAL
Gulf Investment Corporation and France’s GDF Suez have together announced the completion of a required $1.6bn interim funding package for the Al Dur independent water and power project (IWPP) in Bahrain.
EUROPE
Royal Dutch Shell and National Grid are joining ScottishPower’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) consortium, which is one of three groups of bidders for UK government funding to build the first commercial-scale system to demonstrate CCS techniques.
ASIA-PACIFIC
GE Energy has said that the proposed Wandoan project in Queensland, Australia could produce 400 MW of power pre-carbon capture and would be capable of capturing 90 per cent of the CO2 in the fuel stream for future storage.
AMERICAS
The Florida Cabinet has approved site certification for Progress Energy Florida’s Levy nuclear power plant, the first nuclear facility approved in the state since 1976.
COMPANIES
Italian company Enel has formed a joint venture with French company EDF to build and operate at least four nuclear reactors in Italy.
Tognum to supply emergency gensets for Germany’s E.ON Kernkraft nuclear power plant at Unterwesser
Propulsion and power solutions specialist Tognum will supply two emergency gensets for the Unterweser nuclear power plant in early 2011.
US-UK licence and supply agreement for nuclear sector
Mech-Tool Engineering Ltd (MTE) has positioned itself for major expansion in the nuclear sector, in the UK and overseas, after signing a licence and supply agreement with a leading US corporation.
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