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Front cover: INNIO Group, together with


Net Zero Innovation Hub for Datacentres, has completed a demo of 100% H2


fuelled 3 MW


piston engines for datacentre backup. See p36. Photo: INNIO


15 16 Regulars


04 World news 13 Marketforces 40 Power plant products 42 Contacts


Update France’s new plan Favouring big PWRs and wind power


Focus on the UK A prudent strategy for uncertain times


Doubling down on the need for home grown low carbon power


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Selective catalytic reduction


Bringing Direct Injection SCR to European aeroderivatives EnergyLink International, a Canadian company with expertise in post-combustion air-emissions control, is launching its new “Direct Injection” SCR technology at two peaking power plants and a datacentre in the EU


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Carbon capture and sequestration


East Coast Cluster: world first CCGT+CCS


Moving from plan to delivery phase, with BP planning to reduce its involvement


Integrating CCS with biomass and cogen


In Louisiana and Alberta 27


Combined cycle Türkiye’s first HA plant goes commercial


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Why service is becoming the value driver for Europe’s CCGTs


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Grid stability Synchronous condensers: Ansaldo Energia perspective


Clutchless conversion to syncon for 7F.05


Elecnor’s growing role in the synchronous condenser market


Piston power helps to balance Brazil


32 Energy storage


SOC errors in LFP batteries: the $1 million per GWh challenge for BESS operators How cloud-based analytics can radically reduce LFP state-of-charge estimation errors


34


Datacentre power The big move to behind-the- meter


An AVK perspective Landmark for hydrogen power VoltaGrid expands Wärtsilä looks to Texas 38


Offshore wind


Lighting the way to improved safety


Obstruction lighting: at the crossroads between regulation, engineering and offshore operations


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