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Front cover: Visualisation of TVA’s


Kingston Energy Complex, 16 aeroderivative gas turbines, 850 MWe. Located on the site of a retiring coal plant, it is designed to enhance grid reliability as renewable generation grows. See pp 26-29. Image credit: TVA


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04 World news 08 Market forces 40 Power plant products 42 Contacts


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Update Moving at speed into ‘the age of electricity’


The International Energy Agency’s World energy outlook 2024 shows critical choices facing governments and consumers as a period of more ample supplies nears and surging electricity demand reshapes energy security


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Carbon capture and storage


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How steam integration and EGR can reduce CCS costs for combined cycle plants Exhaust gas recirculation, which increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in gas turbine exhaust gas, coupled with a high degree of integration between the combined cycle steam systems and the carbon dioxide capture plant, can greatly improve the economics of carbon capture when applied to natural gas fuelled combined cycle power plants


Carbon capture from Entergy CCGT


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Porthos lays foundations for future European CCS projects


Northern Lights: world first cross border facility completed


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Hydrogen Hydrogen-fuelled power plants: the future is now EET Hydrogen Power, billed as Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant, is under development in the UK, with FID imminent. To be located at the Stanlow refinery, it would be part of the HyNet cluster


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Danish salt caverns: enabler of the hydrogen economy?


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Gas turbine technology


Why the renewable build out needs gas firming


If massive amounts of wind and solar are to be added to the grid in the coming years, they need the support of natural gas assets to maintain stability and serve peak demand


Methanol: fuel of the future? 30 Energy storage


Gaps in battery data are jeopardising the transition The energy transition is in many ways about batteries. Delivering climate targets depends on our ability to scale up their deployment


The long view Applying ‘cap and floor’ to long duration storage


Transmission-connected mega battery 1.6 GWh battery project for Queensland


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Piston power Green H2


powers Austrian CHP plant MAN ES gas engines for southeast Asia


Floating wind New funding for Gazelle’s Nau Azul


Industrial opportunity of the century? Digitalisation


Squaring the AI energy consumption circle How can we achieve a balance between the energy demands of AI and its potential contributions to achieving the transition?


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