GE to open blade manufacturing plant in UK
United Kingdom – GE Renewable Energy has announced that it is preparing to open a new blade production center in Teesside, North East England.
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BP and SABIC to drive circular economy
Germany – British oil and gas firm bp and Saudi Arabian chemical producer SABIC have signed a new deal to work together to drive the circular economy in the petrochemical industry of the Gelsenkirchen chemical complex.
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KMW’s CHP plant starts commercial operations
Combined heat and power (CHP) plant supplied by Wärtsilä to Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden (KMW) in Germany has started commercial operations. The handover of the plant allows municipal energy provider KMW to reliably provide 100 MW of electrical power. The CHP plant feeds the excess heat generated during power generation into the Mainz district heating network. The […]
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93 gigawatt additional electricity exchange needed by 2040
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO) says an additional 93 gigawatt cross-border electricity exchange capacity is needed to address the energy transition in 2040. Although annual investments in network capacity varies from 1.3 billion to 3.4 billion euro, they avoid annual generation costs of 4 to 10 billion euro.
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Gas infrastructure companies present a European Hydrogen Backbone plan
A group of eleven European gas infrastructure companies from nine EU member states presented a plan for a dedicated hydrogen transport infrastructure. New research shows that existing gas infrastructure can be modified to transport hydrogen at an affordable cost.
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North Sea promising part of energy transition
Offshore hydrogen production, electrification of production platforms and underground storage of carbon dioxide in the North Sea seabed all contribute to making the energy system more sustainable. This concludes of TNO in its report North Sea Energy.
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Secure electricity supply also possible in 2050
In order to ensure a secure and reliable integrated energy system in 2050, technical and procedural adjustments for system security must be initiated, according to the results of the study “System Security 2050” by the System Services Platform of the German Energy Agency (dena).
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