Category: Conventional Fuels

September 29, 2023

Aramco has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a stake in MidOcean Energy for $500 million, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company. With this strategic minority of the company formed and managed by institutional investor EIG, this marks Aramco’s first […]

September 28, 2023

Nucor Corp., a manufacturer of steel and steel products, and Helion, a fusion energy company, are collaborating to develop a 500-MW fusion power plant to supply baseload electricity to a steelmaking facility. The companies are working together to set a […]

September 25, 2023

Spar Austria is moving towards their sustainable mobility goals with an intermediate step of switching to bio-based fuel powering their vehicles. As part of an ambitious commitment to power their logistic operations with renewable energy sources by 2050, the retailer […]

September 22, 2023

Ampol will conduct a renewable diesel trial with Hanson confirmed as its first customer partner. The trial will allow Ampol to get a practical understanding of the customer demand and market feasibility of renewable diesel in Australia. Ampol will supply […]

September 21, 2023

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is poised to study the feasibility of retrofitting two gas-fired power plants—a combined capacity of 1.8 GW—in Mississippi and Kentucky with post-combustion carbon capture technology to remove more than 90% of their carbon emissions. The […]

September 20, 2023

Japan’s Kansai Electric Power has restarted another reactor at its Takahama nuclear power plant, the 12threactor to be returned to service in that country since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011 idled Japan’s entire nuclear fleet. Kansai on September 15 […]

September 20, 2023

Accelerating the energy transition requires a rapid expansion of renewables-based electricity generation. According to IRENA’s 1.5°C Scenario, by 2050, variable renewable energy (VRE) will represent 70% of the total global energy generation, from today’s 9%. In this context, green hydrogen […]

August 30, 2023

The World Coal Association recently published a chart on Linkedin showing very graphically how China’s coal consumption dominates the world’s CO2 emissions targets. It is not only China but also India and other emerging economies that are heavily reliant on […]

August 29, 2023

MOL Group has closed the sale of 39 service stations to Shell, in which 19 locations are from the company’s own retail brand and 20 from the former OMV Slovenija, now a combined network between MOL and INA. The transaction […]

August 28, 2023

GE Vernova’s Gas Power division announced the start of commercial operations for a major natural gas-fired power plant in Chiba, Japan, following completion of equipment upgrades at the facility. The Futtsu Power Plant-Group 4, operated by JERA, Japan’s largest power […]

August 24, 2023

Canada’s federal government has committed C$74 million ($55 million) to support SaskPower’s potential deployment of a 300-MW small modular reactor (SMR) in the mid-2030s. Federal agency Natural Resources Canada on Aug. 19 confirmed that up to C$50 million is designated […]

August 21, 2023

A new report released today by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and GHD Advisory calls for Australia to focus on hydrogen-powered transport—alongside electric vehicles—or risk being left behind our international counterparts. While battery electric vehicles will drive decarbonization of road […]

August 9, 2023

Galp has announced an investment of €4.56 million in Verdagy, a U.S. company focused on developing a scalable type of electrolysis technology for industrial applications. This development involves a lower initial investment and is less dependent on critical raw materials […]

August 8, 2023

Mitsubishi Power has delivered two M501JAC gas turbines to Intermountain Power Project (IPP) Renewed in Delta, Utah, a power plant that will source hydrogen when it begins operation in 2025 from the much-watched giant Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES Delta) […]

August 3, 2023

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on July 31 accepted a standard design approval (SDA) application for NuScale Power’s VOYGR-6, a plant design that will be featured in the 462-MWe Carbon-Free Power Project (CFPP) proposed at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) […]

August 1, 2023

The Czech Republic is looking to expand its use of nuclear power, with utility CEZ launching another tender looking for companies to bid on construction of new reactors and generators at the country’s two existing nuclear power stations. The tenders […]

July 31, 2023

Georgia Power declared Plant Vogtle Unit 3 commercially operational on July 31, 2023, making it the first “newly constructed” nuclear power unit to be added to the U.S. fleet in decades. “Today is a historic day for the State of […]

July 28, 2023

Electric utilities are looking to green hydrogen as a tool to help alleviate over-congested grids and renewable energy curtailment. But what makes hydrogen “green?” The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will soon issue its much-anticipated guidance on what qualifies for […]

July 28, 2023

An official in charge of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says the upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea more than 12 years after the reactors’ meltdown marks “a milestone,” but is still only an initial step […]

July 25, 2023

Officials in France have announced the existing Bugey nuclear power station near Lyon will be the site of two new EPR reactors. The government of President Emmanuel Macron last year said the country could add more than a dozen new […]