Rod Walton

Rod Walton 785 posts

Rod Walton is content director for Power Engineering, POWERGEN International and the online POWERGEN+ series. He is a 13-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper journalist and trade publication editor. He can be reached at 918-831-9177 and [email protected].

Hydrogen substitution for natural gas in turbines: Opportunities, issues, and challenges

06.18.2021

By Ben Emerson and Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology Bobby Noble and Neva Espinoza, Electric Power Research Institute Introduction to hydrogen as an energy carrier Today’s energy system includes three major subsystems: (A) energy sources (oil, solar, etc.), (B) infrastructure and carriers for moving these energy sources, and (C) energy consumers. This article considers issues associated with hydrogen as

07.06.2020

Gas

On the same Independence Day Weekend that it announced a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline joint venture with Duke Energy was cancelled, Virginia-based utility Dominion made a deal to sell “substantially all” of its natural gas transmission and storage assets to an affiliate of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in a $9.7 billion transaction. If completed, the divestment would focus Dominion more