Contents 16 26 36 40


Front cover: Visualisation of hydrogen fuelled


power plant, Whyalla, South Australia. See pp 30-32. Image: Office of Hydrogen Power, Government of South Australia.


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Update: sCO2 An expanding range of potential applications Power projects of various kinds are aiming to exploit the advantages of supercritical CO2


a working fluid relative to steam 13 Regulars


04 World news 08 Market forces 42 Contacts


Focus on the USA Large scale computing drives power demand


Data centres and cryptocurrency mining in Texas are proving to be key drivers of burgeoning electricity demand growth


Data centre power Challenges and opportunities


Trump 2.0 What can we expect?


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Resilience through diversity Commercial and industrial facilities need to embrace on-site battery storage and distributed generation


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Carbon capture and storage


A pivotal change in the prospects for CCS in the UK – and globally


UK government and industry have at last been able to co-ordinate final investment decisions on all of the initial elements for a carbon capture and storage project cluster


De-risking CCUS: why the oil and gas industry has a key role to play


CCGT + CCS: Uniper’s Connah’s Quay and Killingholme in the running


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Carbon capture without the columns


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Hydrogen Its evolving role in the energy transition


Hydrogen is no longer seen as the answer to every tough question in the low-carbon energy transition, but it is still expected to have a role in helping manage a low-carbon electricity sector


Clyde Hydrogen reports major milestone for decoupled electrolysis


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Piston power Annual listing of largest reciprocating-


engine-based power plants worldwide


Wärtsilä supplies engines for hybrid power plant in Kazakhstan… …and for balancing in Finland Bergen demonstrates 100% hydrogen mtu gensets for Egypt and Alberta


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Power from waste and biomass


MAN ES and Bonatti collaborate on EDF PEI bioenergy plant


Stricter standards for UK EfW new builds


Viridor selects Kanadevia Inova for Tilbury waste-to-energy plant


40 Energy storage


developments Delivering Eraring, Australia’s biggest battery


CIP charges to the top of the UK battery stack


Statera takes on Carlton’s 680 MW battery scheme


Hithium launches “first sodium-ion battery for utility-scale energy storage”


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