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Front cover: Haru Oni eFuel production


pilot plant, Chile, aiming to benefit from the ‘perfect’ wind conditions of the Magallanes region. See page 37


Regulars


04 World news 12 Marketforces 38 Power plant products 42 Contacts


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Update: Ukraine On the energy front line


13 Powering Japan


Meeting the summer peak JERA looks to fossil fuels


14 Liquefied natural gas


Germany embraces LNG Germany has been late to recognise the energy security benefits of LNG but is now making up for lost time


16 T&D


Breaker breakthrough Hitachi Energy has unveiled “the world’s first fully tested SF6


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-free 420 kV circuit-breaker”, with


a 420 kV dead tank breaker employing the new technology to be installed in the USA in 2023


Solar power


RWE launches into floating PV, offshore and inland


RWE sees considerable promise in floating PV 23


Floating offshore wind


TwinWind gains momentum Swedish start-up Hexicon reports progress with its twin-turbine floating wind concept


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26 Power-to-X


Enabler of the all-electric future Electrify everything and run it on low carbon power


29


Community power Tenerife PV project leads the way


E.ON and Adeje, a municipality in the south west of the island of Tenerife, are establishing an innovative energy community, said to be the first of its kind in Europe


30


Energy storage e-Zinc signs pilot project deal with


Toyota Tsusho Canada Battery boom in the USA


UK: £20 billion of battery storage needed


Electric cars as buffer storage 33


Nuclear power Achieving fusion, and what next for First Light? Having attained the major milestone of achieving fusion with its novel projectile- based technology, First Light Fusion is now looking to the next steps


SMRs: a question of when, not whether?


The momentum behind small modular reactors continues to build worldwide


37


Focus on South America


Chile’s high hopes for hydrogen


Chile has aspirations to become a major player in the hydrogen economy, and is well placed to be an exporter of cheap green hydrogen thanks to its enviable potential for renewable energy development


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