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Front cover: Saltend Chemical Park, UK,


site of Equinor’s planned H2H Saltend low carbon H2


production facility, and potentially a key part of the East Coast Cluster.


See pp 12-14. Photo: Equinor


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Focus on the UK Can GB deliver on CCS? The UK government has to take action now


Seeing the big picture The UK is pressing ahead with plans for NESO (National Energy System Operator)


18 Regulars


04 World news 34 Power plant products 38 Contacts


Combined cycle Mitsubishi Power reports success in Asia


CCS for Connah’s Quay?


Next generation capture for CCGT San Pedro converted


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Decarbonising Japan


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22 Transmission & distribution


Offshore HVDC: why the USA should emulate Europe


All for one and one for all: digitalisation for co-operative utilities


National Grid and Smart Wires aim to reduce grid bottlenecks


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Reforming US transmission permitting Xlinks: new investors, but costs rise Multi-vendor multi-terminal HVDC Transforming the transformer business


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Digital transformation and cybersecurity


Cyber security: key to ensuring a renewable future Why the renewable energy sector lacks sufficient cyber security protection, how technical and behavioural aspects of operations expose critical assets to malicious attacks, and what can be done about it


DOE allocates $45 million to cyber projects


Databricks aims to bring generative AI to the energy sector


Arenko and Smart Metering Systems expand software partnership with 10 year deal


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Wind power updates


What are the real risks wind farms pose to migrating birds? A Vattenfall perspective Thermal cameras will record bird collisions at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in tests scheduled to start this August


Asia-Pacific’s largest offshore wind farms to date


With a total installed capacity of 900 MW, the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan are, as of April, in operation and fully connected to the grid, “making them the largest of their kind in Taiwan and in the Asia-Pacific region”, says Ørsted


Masdar’s megaprojects Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – aka Masdar, which calls itself the UAE’s “clean energy powerhouse” – is aiming for 100 GW of renewables by 2030


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