Apr 23 – Canadian power producer TransAlta Corp has been selected as the preferred bidder in a tender to build a A$550m ($510m) gas-fired power plant in South Hedland, Western Australia. The 150 MW plant is scheduled to start operations in 2017 and adds new capacity to TransAlta’s six plant producing 425 MW of electricity […]
Apr 22 – Bangladeshi energy company Summit Power has started installation of a 230 MW gas turbine at the Bibiyana gas-fired combined cycle power plant as part of phase two construction. The turbine was manufactured by GE in the U.S. prior to shipment to the plant site near Mongla port in south-western Bangladesh.
Apr 22 – The UK government has appointed Martin Read as the chair of its newly founded Contracts for Difference (CfD) counterparty company, which will manage the subsidy scheme from 1 August. Read and his colleague Jim Keohane will also chair the Electricity Settlements Company, responsible for the implementation of capacity mechanism – a support […]
Apr 17 – Latin American countries will have to add 14 GW annually to the current power generating capacity over the next 20 years to accommodate rising power demand, a report in BNamericas’s Intelligence Series finds. Analysts expect electricity consumption in the region to almost double to 1.55 TWh by 2035, with the addition of […]
Apr 17 – U.S. power producer Alliant Energy has been given final approval by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to begin building its proposed 600MW Marshalltown Generating Station (MGS). Construction is due to start in June this year and the plant will be operational in 2017. The project will be completed via Alliant’s subsidiary, […]
Apr 16 – GE’s Digital Energy business has upgraded its medium-power transformer offering with its new PROLEC-GE Flexible Integrated Transformer (FIT). The transformer provides utility customers with an optimized, end-to-end solution complete with installation and aftermarket services. The PROLEC-GE FIT is being showcased at the 2014 IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition taking place […]
Apr 16 – Capstone Turbine Corporation has welcomed the introduction of the American Microturbine Manufacturing and Clean Energy Deployment Act H.R. 4428 in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (CA-39). If approved, the new legislation would grant a 30% investment tax credit for microturbines, providing parity with tax incentives offered to fuel cells and […]
Apr 15- Aberdeen-based power plant services company Wood Group has acquired Texan developer Cape Software. The company creates solutions to simulate process responses on control networks and for interactive operator training and logic validation for SCADA and DCS industrial control systems used in power plants and upstream oil and gas. Cape will become part of the […]
Apr 14 – Panda Power Funds has contracted GP Strategies to provide EtaPRO™ monitoring technology as well as instructor-led training and GPiLEARN™ web-based training at three of its Texas natural gas power plants. The remotely monitored plants, Temple I & II power generating stations, will have a combined capacity of 1516-MW and the Sherman plant […]
Apr 14 – Ireland’s Bord na Móna has started operations at a 5.6 MW landfill gas-to-energy facility at a landfill site in Drehid, Ireland. The facility has been supplied by GE gas engine distributor and service partner, Clarke Energy, and features four containerised GE Jenbacher JGC420GS-LL gas engines.
Sept 18 — Denmark today brought into commercial operation the Greensand project, the European Union’s first full-scale facility for permanent CO₂ storage beneath the seabed in a depleted North Sea oilfield. Led by INEOS Energy with Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden, the site will initially store up to 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year, with plans to scale to 4-8 million tonnes annually by 2030.
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.
