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Front cover: The largest floating wind farm yet,
Hywind Tampen, 88 MW, under construction. See p 28. Photo: Jan Arne Wold, Woldcam © Equinor
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04 World news 10 Market forces 38 Power plant products 41 Classified 42 Contacts
Powering Poland Making “serious progress” but coal still dominates Poland is the subject of the International Energy Agency’s latest policy review
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Piston power Boom and bust?
The last ten years has seen a huge rise in arrays of small gas engines in the UK. They have hollowed out plans for new large turbines – but now their own market could in turn be hollowed out by batteries
Renewables + flexible gas: a winning strategy for Africa that can save billions
With the help of gas fuelled piston engines, to address intermittency issues, Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save itself billions along the way
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MAN Energy Solutions adds 445 MW to Bangladeshi installed capacity
Read the latest industry news and updated revised listings of upcoming projects and tenders, sample our definitive energy events listing, delve into the Modern Power Systems archive – and much more besides.
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Wärtsilä and US owner/operator trial H2 in existing power plant
mtu gensets approved for HVO Bergen based microgrid
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MHIENG and MHIET to demonstrate compact carbon capture technology for gensets
Mitsubishi’s new genset targets datacentres
Biogas CHP expansion in Geer
The gold standard for mine power performance
Powering the Red Sea gigaproject
Rolls-Royce mtu engines keep the Chinese chips flowing
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Organic Rankine cycle
Expanding applications in geothermal power and LNG An EXERGY perspective
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Combined cycle Embracing advanced technology in Asia
H and J class combined cycle project updates from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and China
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Offshore wind Floating turbines
Preparing for take-off in Europe?
Denmark’s North Sea Energy Island: expanding the team GlobalConnect and Arup have now joined the North Sea Energy Island development team
World firsts at Kaskasi Among innovations at RWE’s Kaskasi wind farm is the installation of monopile collars
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Energy storage Repurposing fossil power plant sites
Edina opts for battery liquid cooling
Krummhörn put to the test for H2 storage
Gravitricity and Arup to assess below ground H2
storage 34 T & D
UK Power Networks maps a path to SF6
-free switchgear
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