Aug 6 – The Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC) has approved Kentucky Power Company’s plan to convert Unit 1 of the Big Sandy Power Plant from coal-fired to gas-fired electricity generation. The decision will keep the plant onstream “for years to come”, the operator claimed, stressing this would secure jobs in Lawrence County, South Dakota. […]
Aug 6 – Argentina’s 466 (MW) Bicentenario Combined-Cycle Power Plant, run by Córdoba’s provincial energy company (EPEC), was restarted following a pipeline explosion that interrupted its natural gas supply. However, the 216-MW Gobernador Arturo Zanichelli Power Plant, located 13 km from the city of Pillar, is still lying idle.
Aug 05 – Pakistan is considering reinstating the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, to boost import of natural gas for power generation from the neighbouring country. The project has faced difficulties due to ongoing U.S. sanctions against Iran that have restricted the export of natural gas.
Aug 05 – GE’s Distributed Power business is to supply three 25 MW trailer-mounted TM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbines for Nigeria’s state oil refinery at Port Harcourt. The turbines will be operated by Genesis Electricity subsidiary, GEL Utility Ltd., on behalf of the refinery owner Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC).
Aug 04 – The first pipes for the Power of Siberia gas transmission system (GTS) have been delivered to Lensk in northern Russia. The first batch contains 260 pipes with a 21.7 millimeter wall thickness and 1,420 millimeter diamter, weighing a total of 2.4 thousand tons. The pipes will will be used to build the GTS section from the Chayandinskoye field […]
Aug 04 – Energoholding, a subsidiary of Russian gas company Gazprom has announced that it will source its gas turbine spare parts locally instead of importing products. A range of tougher sanctions were announced by the European Union and the United States last week to target the Russian energy, banking and defence sectors. Energoholding is responsible […]
Aug 01 – U.S. utility Xcel Energy has announced plans to enter the business of building multistate power transmission projects. The company aims to start competing for projects on the Midwest grid and in the Southwest. The move will build on existing projects such as the $2 billion CapX2020 project to expand transmission infrastructure across […]
Aug 01 – The UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched a project seeking proposals for novel biogas and biomass solutions to power the UK energy sector. The ETI is targeting future UK energy systems capable of delivering bioenergy emissions savings in order to cut more than £50 billion per year by 2050.
Jul 30 – UK electricity producer Thames Power Services is in talks to shut it 1,000 MW Barking power station in east London The firm announced that the combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant is unprofitable under current market conditions.
Jul 30 – Japanese power firm Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has announced that it will merge with Babcock-Hitachi, a Yokohama-based company handling boilers and air quality control systems (AQCS) in October. MHPS aims to enhance speed to business management and achieve greater efficiency and cost competitiveness.
Sept 16 – GE Vernova is fast-tracking delivery of new 400 kV Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation at Chesterfield, UK. The new substation is part of National Grid’s Brinsworth-to-Chesterfield and Chesterfield-to-High Marnham project, with the upgrade using SF₆-free technology to strengthen grid resilience across England and Wales in generations.
Sept 14 – Singapore’s experience in the Middle East crisis highlights the country’s exposure to external energy supply shocks. Over 95% of Singapore’s electricity generation is fuelled by imported LNG, hence diversification is paramount for supply security, said Gan Siow Huang, Singapore’s minister of trade and industry. Singapore is hence developing a second LNG terminal with a view to increasing import capacity to 15 mtpa by 2030.
Aug 31 – The number of gas-fired power plant projects, linked to US data centres, has nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. According to Global Energy Monitor, 378 MW of gas capacity is currently under development in the US, one-third of total projected capacity worldwide, led by Texas with 122 MW.
Aug 27 – GE Vernova has been chosen by Laing O’Rourke to deliver a new 400 kV Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation at Chesterfield, UK. The new substation is part of National Grid’s Brinsworth-to-Chesterfield and Chesterfield-to-High Marnham project, with the upgrade using SF₆-free technology to strengthen grid resilience in a sustainable manner. The projects form part of The Great Grid Upgrade, the largest overhaul of the electricity grid across England and Wales in generations.
Aug 26 – Net Power has agreed to purchase 123 MW of new power generation equipment to increase the installed capacity of its Project Permian to nearly 200 MW. The gas-fired power project in West Texas is being gradually scaled up to 1 GW.
Aug 24 – Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) has provisionally allocated 200 MW of new data centre capacity to Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, with each receiving 50 MW for facilities on Jurong Island. All sites will be developed within JTC’s planned low‑carbon data centre park on Jurong Island, and operators must source more than 50% of their capacity from green or low‑carbon energy such as biomethane, low‑carbon ammonia or hydrogen.
Aug 21 – Germany’s underground gas storage facilities are only about 50% full as of mid-August, well below last year’s roughly 67%. To achieve the targeted 70% filling levels by November, the government is preparing additional intervention options although traders remain cautious amid elevated prices and geopolitical uncertainty.
Aug 19 – A Russian air strike has damaged one of DTEK’s thermal power plant, forcing the Ukrainian operator to shut down one unit. DTEK’s thermal power fleet had an installed capacity of about 13.3 GW as of early 2022, spread across eight plants, though repeated attacks since then have destroyed much of that installed capacity, jeopardising regional electricity supply security.
Aug 17 – Wärtsilä is preparing to deliver an off-grid power solution for a new data center, under construction in Texas. The 790 MW power plant will operate with 42 Wärtsilä 50SG engines running on natural gas.
July 29 – Electricity demand in India is on course to rise 4-5% year-on-year in 2027, Fitch Rating reckons, referring to the country’s higher cooling needs and economic growth. Coal remains king in the Indian energy mix, fuelling more than 70% of power stations, while gas-burn fell to 15% in June 2026, down from 22% a year earlier amid supply constraints and higher LNG prices.
July 27 – The Japanese government is considering foreign debt finance for gas-fired power projects in the United States that form part of its $550 billion U.S. investment pledge. “If financing from foreign banks materialises, it should further facilitate the procurement of foreign-currency funding needed to implement the investment initiative,” the finance ministry said on the platform X late on Sunday.
July 24 – EU Carbon Emission Allowances are expected to continue their mean-reversion trading around €80/t for the rest of this month, as the Commissions adjustments leave supply-demand balances for carbon credits tight through 2035. Further out, Energy Aspects reckons there may be 250 Mt more allowances in the market through 2040 as the pace of how fast the ETS cap falls has been slowed down for 2036 onwards.
July 22 – Nigeria’s Index Thermal Power has invited engineering firms, infrastructure developers and institutional investors to join the development and financing of its proposed 1,800 MW gas-fired independent power plant in Rivers State. The project is planned for the Onne Oil and Gas Free Trade Zone in Port Harcourt.
July 20 – Utilita Energy has become the third energy supplier to join WattsWatt – the national energy information service – alongside Outfox Energy and Home Energy in bid to help households gain affordable warmth by comparign tariffs and improving access to energy efficiency grants.
July 17 – Hitachi Energy and Eve Air Mobility, an Embraer-backed aircraft manufacturer, are looking to advance the electrical infrastructure needed to support urban air mobility. The agreement brings together Hitachi’s Grid-eMotion charging infrastructure with Embraer-backed electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft technology.
July 15 – The global market for hydrogen (H2)-compatible gas turbines will grow to nearly $3.5 billion by 2032, expanding at an annual rate of over 10% during the forecast period. According to DataM intelligence, hydrogen is emerging as a strategic and sustainable alternative to fossil fuelled power generation as nations strive to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels and stabilize their power grids,
July 13 – Japan’s largest power generator JERA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Samsung C&T of Korea to collaborate on hydrogen and ammonia. JERA is developing Japan’s first low-carbon ammonia value-chain, and is targeting start of operations around fiscal year 2029. Samsung C&T focused on low-carbon ammonia infrastructure and supply chain initiatives in Korea, and by combining their capabilities both companies aim to strengthen value chain resilience across Asia.
July 8 – GasHub has finished an LNG storage and regasification facility at Rolls-Royce’s Seletar Campus in Singapore and begun LNG deliveries, with the system designed to support the campus’s long-term energy requirements, including reliable electricity demand. The setup is part of a shift away from compressed natural gas and aims to reduce fuel deliveries, emissions, and operating costs.
July 6 – Swiss energy storage operator BW ESS has started construction on the 1GW Klostermansfeld project, one of Europe’s largest battery storage projects to date. Situated in the southern Harz region, the battery is designed to supply around three million German households with electricity for at least four hours.
July 2 – Siemens is investing €300 million to expand the production of high-efficiency power distribution systems for data centers, e-mobility and industrial automation. To that end, Siemens is expanding its switchgear factory in Frankfurt and a new supplier facility in Offenbach, creating 700 new jobs by the end of 2030
