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Front cover: Visualisation of Van Oord’s


new Boreas jack-up vessel. Its first deployment will be monopile installation for RWE’s Nordseecluster group of offshore wind projects. See p 26. Image: Van Oord.


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Emissions reduction


Regulars


04 World news 08 Market forces 38 Contacts


The US EPA’s new power plant rules: a World Resources Institute perspective The US Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules represent the first legal limits on heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and will accelerate emissions reductions from the US power sector


Ørsted’s new BECCS based carbon removal agreement with Microsoft


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Piston power Tackling the challenges of e-fuels


Bergen’s microgrid “eliminates UPS and standby generators in data centres”


Continuing role for gas in the UK Carbon capture for mtu gas engines


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Rolls-Royce emergency backup power for Colorado datacentre


Caterpillar extends hydrogen offering


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16 Marine renewables


Replacing diesel with tidal stream 18


Energy storage


developments Sodium–sulphur revisited Trenton transformed


LFP gigafactory: poised for production UK storage pipeline grows to 95.6 GW Batteries keep the lights on in Texas Sungrow storage for Saudi Arabia


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Power plant cooling


Developing a plan B for nuclear power in Washington


Fast-build ACC for Sun Ba II, Taiwan


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Japan offshore poised for growth Full speed ahead for RWE’s Nordseecluster Getting more steel into the water in the USA Dealing with blade root faults Onshore: SunZia gigaproject underway


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