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BWRX-300, which is in the running to be the first grid scale SMR in North America. See p 28 (Image: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
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European Commission initiatives
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Redesigning the EU electricity market, and responding to the Inflation Reduction Act Mid March proved to be a very busy time for the European Commission with the setting out of proposals for two major energy initiatives, one focused on reform of the EU electricity market design and the second, the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), aiming to “scale up manufacturing of clean technologies in the EU”, which can be seen as a response to the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act
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Update Did Green Day deliver? The UK published dozens of updates on its plans for an economy that is ‘net zero’ in carbon emissions. But what did it achieve?
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New uses for fossil assets
Repurposing fossil fuel plants as storage facilities: an update from E2S Power
E2S Power, a company established four years ago with the objective of transforming fossil-fuelled power assets into clean energy storage facilities (see MPS, Nov/Dec 2021, pp 31-33 and April 2022, p 12), is delivering a 250 kWh thermal energy storage pilot to India Power Corporation
Ammonia co-firing
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Decarbonisation of the existing fossil-fired power plant fleet via ammonia co-firing is a potential strategy being actively pursued by MHI, IHI and the major Japanese power companies
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Heat recovery steam generator technology
Huge HRSG for Belgium’s latest combined cycle project “A real juggernaut” says Pascal Fontaine, sales manager at John Cockerill Energy, describing the heat recovery steam generator it is designing and supplying to ENGIE for a new 875 MWe combined cycle power plant to be located at Flémalle near Liège
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Nuclear power The FLEX reactor – the next step in molten salt reactor evolution
Moltex Energy, the UK-based developer of molten salt nuclear technology, launched its subsidiary MoltexFLEX last autumn to work on its FLEX reactor – the latest application of the company’s platform stable salt reactor (SSR) design
SMRs: one step backwards, several steps forward The first quarter of 2023 has seen mixed fortunes for advanced/small modular reactors
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China launches 18 MW offshore turbines Global offshore pipeline exceeds 1100 GW Floating plans in Scotland, Black Sea and SK
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Eskom at 100 South Africa’s current challenges
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