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Front cover: MAN Energy Solutions and


Karpowership have recently signed a contract for 48x20.7 MW dual fuel piston engines for floating power plants. See pp 28-30.


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Update: COP28


Fossil fuels to be banned Eight years after the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015 kicked off climate change as a global issue, COP28 delegates agreed a viable route to a ban on all fossil fuels for power generation by 2050


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Carbon dioxide: working fluid of the future? sCO2


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Energy storage


Waste trucks become active players in UK grid


V2G trials in the UK have shown how batteries in parked electrified waste collection trucks can provide stationary energy storage capacity


Germany’s energy transition: why big batteries must be included


EU market redesign: pivotal for storage Funding breakthrough for Energy Dome


‘Lucrative and enduring’ role for batteries in Australia


on the horizon in the EU As reflected in a current series of webinars organised by ETN Global (with the ETN, previously European Turbine Network, now standing for Energy & Turbomachinery Network), there is some very interesting R&D going on in Europe in the area of supercritical CO2


Volume 44 | Number 1


for power generation and storage Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is clearly a problem. But using the thermodynamic properties of this versatile molecule in modern power systems can be an opportunity


sCO2 and CO2


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Waste and biomass Adding carbon capture for negative emissions


Datacentre power Success for Ballard/Caterpillar/


Microsoft fuel cell demo Net zero H2


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for hyperscale datacentres mtu gensets for Osaka datacentre


Hitachi Energy’s HyFlex™: the diesel engine killer


Cool new role for old mines Saft helps Microsoft go diesel free


as working fluids


Green light for Liddell battery in Australia


Shanghai Electric sees global expansion in store


Outlook for EV bidirectional charging (V2X)


ABB sees potential in gravity energy storage


ABB has signed an MoU with Gravitricity with a view to collaborating on accelerating the deployment of gravity energy storage systems in former mines


Zinc–manganese: a much needed alternative to lithium–ion?


28 Piston power


Annual listing of largest reciprocating-engine-based power plants worldwide


MAN Energy Solutions and Karpowership sign contract for 48 dual-fuel engines


RAG selects INNIO for world first hydrogen storage project


Caterpillar expands hydrogen options


MHIET achieves 50% hydrogen in single cylinder test


Wärtsilä secures 12-year O&M extension in Pakistan


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