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Steelmaker uses green hydrogen to cut carbon emissions
By James Brooks LULEA, Sweden (AP) — For hundreds of years, raging blast furnaces — fed with coking coal — have forged steel used in cars, railways, bridges and skyscrapers. But the puffs of coal-fired smoke are a big source of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas that’s driving climate change. According to the World Steel Association, every metric ton of
Vattenfall wind power plant to get 11 MW in Siemens Gamesa turbines
News
The HKZ wind farm zone is planned to be fitted with approximately 140 units of SGRE’s upgraded version of its Direct Drive offshore wind turbine, which now features the ability to reach a capacity of 11 MW.
Initiate! energy start-up and innovation program goes global
Batteries
Calling all energy talent! The Initiate! programme, where many start-ups and innovators in the energy and power sectors got their flying start, is going global! Since its launch in 2014, as part of energy event European Utility Week’s practical programme on the expo floor, the platform has been bringing together start-ups, students, corporate executives, public sector innovators and investors from around the world.
Op-ed: The failure of privatization in the energy sector and why today’s consumers are reclaiming power
Cogeneration
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the twin forces of privatization and deregulation of public infrastructure services ascended to a global paradigm of progress and development. Government management of services such as telecommunications, transportation, water, and energy was deemed inefficient, underperforming, and monopolistic. Private industry — accountable to the profits and losses of an open market and, thus, believed more efficient than government — was proclaimed the better way for consumer choice and a more efficient use of taxpayers’ expenses.
Vattenfall in energy supply deal with Norway industrial group
News
Swedish power group Vattenfall and Norwegian industrial group Elkem have signed a long-term electricity supply agreement.
Framatome Completes I&C Upgrade at Swedish Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear
The new instrumentation and control assemblies for the neutron flux wide-range monitoring system were designed and manufactured as modules. They were installed into the existing cabinets on site, according to Framatome.
New Projects – Renewables
Vattenfall Places first Turbine in new Wind Power Farm off Danish Coast
The wind farm will increase Danish annual electricity production from wind by about 12 percent….
News
E.On dedicates Radford’s Run Wind Farm
Radford’s Run consists of 139 Vestas 2.2 MW turbines and came online in December 2017…
Renewables
Vestas, Vattenfall to Build 353-MW Wind Project in Sweden
Vestas will provide 84 V136-4.2 MW turbines for the project and will hold a stake of 40 percent of the project. …
Biomass
World’s First Coal to Biomass Conversion Using Advanced Wood Pellets
In 2015, a coal-fired unit in Canada was successfully converted to burn thermally upgraded wood pellets. The first-of-a-kind project was executed with a capital…
Nuclear
Ringhals Nuclear Units 1 & 2 to Shut Down by 2020
The 1,746-MW Ringhals nuclear power plant in Sweden will close the two reactors by 2020, the second closure announcement from the country in as many days….
News
Decommissioning Challenges
A decommissioning project at a nuclear power plant is unlike any other power generation project. There are so many factors to deal with that are not seen in tra…
News
Eletronuclear CEO arrested on corruption charges
Eletronuclear confirmed that its chief executive on leave, Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, was arrested as part of a corruption investigation at the utility….
Emissions
Siemens delivers first oil-free steam turbine to Vattenfall
Siemens has delivered the first steam turbine (10-MW) that operates almost entirely without lubricants….
Nuclear
Nuclear decommissioning cooperation agreement signed
Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy (VENE) and E.ON Technologies (ETG) are cooperating on the decommissioning and dismantling of joint nuclear power plants….
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Steelmaker uses green hydrogen to cut carbon emissions
Vattenfall wind power plant to get 11 MW in Siemens Gamesa turbines
Initiate! energy start-up and innovation program goes global
Op-ed: The failure of privatization in the energy sector and why today’s consumers are reclaiming power