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Front cover: Long Ridge, USA. The GE HA
gas turbine here has recently
been operated on a blend of H2 and natural gas. See page 19.
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Emissions reduction
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Meeting new limits at Indian coal plants: how do we close the gap between aspiration and achievement?
The immediate and pressing goals of getting coal-fired power plants in India to comply with tighter emissions limits and to implement effective real-time pollution monitoring are proving to be very difficult to achieve
Milestones for green hydrogen in the USA
A conditional $504.4 million commitment from the US DOE in support of the ACES (Advanced Clean Energy Storage) project and demonstration of a hydrogen blend fuel in an HA gas turbine
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Focus on Germany Easter boost for renewables The coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats aims to take the rollout of wind and solar power in Germany “to a completely new level”
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UK–German link progresses NeuConnect, the planned HVDC link between Germany and the UK – two of Europe’s largest energy markets – continues to progress, with start of construction expected later this year, and operation targeted for March 2028
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regulations worldwide As anticipated, the regulations governing SF6 use are growing ever more stringent, and switchgear manufacturers and system operators are responding
SF6 : preparing for tighter
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Energy storage
Looking to longer time horizons in the UK
Attention is turning to longer duration storage and the role of hydrogen
Fluence projects stack up worldwide
Fluence is working on projects in Australia, Taiwan and Ireland
Saft helps coal phase-out in far north 31 Solar power
How solar resource variability affects asset performance Ten-year analysis of solar resource variability highlights significant deviations
ZSW shifts focus to PV tandems All change at Atacama
Largest Nordic roof-based solar park 34 Digitalisation How to empower India’s wind operators
Controlling the world’s largest hydro/ floating-PV hybrid
Enercon turbines disrupted by satellite cyber attack
20-year software-as-a-service partnership
JERA starts AI-based boiler optimisation
Siemens inaugurates cyber defence centre in Canada
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District heating Two H-25 gas turbines for Tashkent cogen
Fortum and Microsoft collaborate on Helsinki datacentre megaproject
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