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Front cover: Vattenfall’s Horns Rev wind farm.


A new study aims to determine how wind turbine performance is affected by wake effects from neighbouring wind farms. See p29. Photo: Vattenfall. Photographer: Christian Steiness


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Update Supply chain bottlenecks threaten grid expansion Efforts to expand and modernise electricity transmission grids around the world face mounting challenges as supply chain bottlenecks intensify


14 Regulars


04 World news 10 Market forces 39 Power Plant Products 42 Contacts


Grid stability and renewables


Dealing with the duck curve in Western Australia


How gas turbine based power plants have been modified to act as synchronous condensers, bringing increased stability and reliability to the Western Australia grid


Reactive Technologies and Siemens aim to improve inertia monitoring


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Dispatchable power: critical for the energy transition ETN Global’s latest white paper looks at how Europe can strike a balance between avoidance of energy shortages and meeting climate targets


Using AI to deal with complex load flows: DSOs are dipping their toes


22 Gas turbine


developments Success for the M701JAC


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100% hydrogen-fueled DLN combustor KALiNA plans CCGT+CCS for datacentres New CCGT JV targets datacentres Running on ammonia CCS + CCGT at Connah’s Quay


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Energy storage


Blackhillock: Europe’s biggest battery, for now, and world leading grid-former


Dramatic rise in US battery installed capacity


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Offshore wind Working on wakes


Solar power


Perovskite/silicon tandems, the next big thing for PV


31 Green hydrogen


Dynamic alkaline water electrolysis: the path to parity Dynamic AWE electrolysers combine the reliability, robustness and low materials costs of traditional AWE systems with the fast responsiveness and wider dynamic range of PEM systems


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Power from biomass


Stockholm Exergi backs BECCS: from plan to plant Stockholm Exergi has decided to go ahead with building one of the world’s largest BECCS (Bio- Energy Carbon Capture and Storage) facilities


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Nuclear power innovation


A thorium molten salt reactor that refuels with fertile rather than fissile fuel


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