May 8 – ABB has entered into an agreement with China’s Jiangsu Jingke Smart Electric Company to set up a joint venture that will design, manufacture and service high voltage instrument transformers from 72.5 kV to 750 kV. The produce portfolio for the Chinese market will include oil and SF6 stand-alone current and voltage transformers, […]
May 7- Siemens today announced the development and launch of world’s largest turbo compressor for sulfuric acid industry. With a rotor diameter of 2,240 millimeters (mm) and a capacity range of between 8 and 14 megawatts, the new single-stage STC-SOF (22) turbo compressor is the largest and highest-capacity machine of its class, the new turbo […]
May 3 – Wärtsilä has been contracted by Finland’s Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) to supply nine Wärtsilä 32 engines running on light fuel oil to provide backup power for the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, units one and two. Wärtsilä will supply the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the process equipment, as well as all […]
May 1 – Caterpillar Global Petroleum has announced that it has developed a Dynamic Gas Blending (DGB) retrofit kit for use on its Cat 3512C (HD) engine for well stimulation applications. The system allows for diesel fuel to be substituted with natural gas during high pressure pumping operations. Caterpillar says that it is capable of […]
May 2 – ABB has won an order from engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Metka to supply a Symphony Plus total plant automation system for the phase 4 expansion of the Samra thermal power plant in Jordan. The plant, owned and operated by Samra Electric Power Generating Co has a current capacity of 885MW. […]
May 1 – UK regulator Ofgem has opened investigations into energy firms British Gas, Drax, GDF Suez/IPM, Intergen, Scottish Power and SSE for failing to meet one or more of their energy efficiency targets under the Government’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) and Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) schemes. Ofgem did say however that energy […]
April 30 – The Turkish government is working on setting up an energy exchange in Istanbul before the end of this year as part of plans to transform Istanbul into a financial hub for Eurasia and the Middle East. Hasan Koktas, the head of Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), told local media the energy […]
April 29 – Ireland’s utility Bord na Mona is set to start development of a landfill-gas power plant, designed to produce 5.6 megawatts of renewable electricity. Located in the Drehid facility near Allenwood in county Kildare, the plant is scheduled to start operations in 2014.
April 26 – Switzerland’s biggest utility, Alpiq, has criticized the government’s long-term energy strategy for not including plans to liberalise the power market. The utility warned that the country is running the risk of being excluded from Europe’s day-ahead and intra-day markets as long as there is no bilateral electricity accord with the EU.
Apr 19 – Vanderbilt University is to convert its coal-fired cogeneration facility to natural gas. The conversion is expected to cost around $29 million and take approximately two years to complete. It will include the installation of two gas-fired boilers and one gas combustion turbine. The new facility will meet the needs of the university […]
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.
