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Front cover: Visualisation of HVDC converter


station for the Sunshine wind farm off Long Island. See p 36 (image: Siemens)


Regulars


04 World news 19 Market forces 54 Power plant products 61 Classified 62 Contacts


Update Australia–Asia PowerLink: Sun Cable’s HVDC mega project progresses


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Sun Cable’s Australia–Asia PowerLink project includes 4200 km of subsea HVDC cable connecting Darwin and Singapore


20 Floating wind


After Kincardine, Principle Power looks to Brittany Building on successful commissioning of the 50 MW Kincardine floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, Principle Power is working with ENGIE and EDP on a tender for a commercial-scale floating offshore wind off the coast of Brittany


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HyNet and East Coast clusters capture Track-1 status Two UK CCUS clusters, considered capable of starting decarbonisation activities by 2025, have been selected as potential frontrunners


CCS for EfW: the time is now Energy-from-waste (EfW) is one of the key sectors targeted by Carbon Clean for application of its carbon capture technologies


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Energy storage


TWEST™ – repurposing coal fired plants as thermal energy storage The phase out of coal plants globally is creating an immediate challenge: what should be done with these valuable assets? E2S Power’s innovative idea is to replace the boilers with thermal energy storage systems


Carbon capture


CCS project pipeline grows The Global CCS Institute is understandably bullish about prospects for carbon capture


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Focus on the USA Vineyard Wind starts construction


The era of commercial scale offshore wind has finally arrived in the USA


Sunrise Wind converts to HVDC New York project is the USA’s first offshore wind farm to opt for HVDC


Intermountain renewed The Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah plans to cease coal fired generation by 2025 and transition to becoming a regional H2 hub


Recips replace coal for Lakeland


A gas fuelled recip-based plant will replace the recently retired McIntosh 3 coal-fired unit


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Fuel cell focus Replacing diesels with fuel cells Fuel cell developer SFC Energy is partnering with Norwegian hydrogen specialist Nel


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Combined cycle Hirono IGCC plant completed First HLs for Brazil and Greece


Nuclear power Large mock-up for a small reactor A full-scale mock-up of the U-Battery was recently inaugurated at Whetstone, UK


51 T&D


Hitachi Energy’s roadmap for eliminating SF6


The EconiQ™ portfolio is being extended to higher voltages and more demanding applications


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