Tag Archives: Power Engineering (Magazine)

The world’s largest green hydrogen project — the 260MW Kuqa facility in Xinjiang, northwest China ¬— is to be commissioned at the end of May, with commercial operation scheduled to begin on 30 June, according to its developer, Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec. It will overtake the current world leader, …

Fleischanderl’s passion for improving and developing the sector is tangible, an important attribute as hard-to-abate sectors struggle to keep up with global emissions targets. Primetals is a global plant engineering company catering for the steel sector and a member of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group. Primetals was recently in …

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is supporting the EU’s intention to consider gas as a sustainable source of energy under the new green labelling system. This was announced by HE Yury Sentyurin, Secretary General of the association of 19 leading gas-exporting countries while speaking as a keynote at the …

The production of hydrogen today is a “climate killer” according to Carlo Zorzoli of Enel Green Power. He said some “98% of it is produced from steam reforming and gasification, which equates to yearly carbon emissions comparable to that of Indonesia and the UK combined. Just 2% is produced from …

Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, has announced an investment of $13.73 million in a new windpower research centre. The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable. One of the centre’s main priorities will be offshore wind research. …

A new report released by Wood Mackenzie states that solar module costs will continue to fall in the 2020s owing to technology innovation and lower CAPEX. Improvement in module efficiency and power class is expected to propel the declining capex trend forward and ultimately lower the solar levelised cost of …

The European Energy Centre (EEC-ECT) has been awarded Institute status by the UK Government following the distinguished work in providing accredited Renewable Energy training and research carried out in the UK and internationally. The prestigious Institute status is only awarded to well-established organisations and bodies who deliver education of the …

In Indonesia, the Ministry of Energy has partnered with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy in the country. The ministry and IEA are partnering with utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN Persero) to launch a new joint project on electricity and renewable energy. The …

Spain and Sweden have the cheapest power purchase agreement (PPA) prices in Europe for wind and solar energy, according to data from Bloomberg NEF’s (BNEF) 1H 2020 European Corporate PPA Price Survey. Sweden, with prices set around €30.50/MWh, is the cheapest market for onshore wind corporate PPAs. In the solar …

The facility will begin commercial operations next year.