Coal's dominant share cent of Australia's generation mix (around 80 per cent) is poised to halve over the coming decades as more gas and renewable generation come onstream.
Just a year ago, Günther Oettinger, the European Union's (EU)commissioner for Energy, was pressing member states to increase interconnectivity of electricity grids more rapidly than previously. His call was in response to that of developers of low-carbon generation for a steer on Europe's drive towards a single electricity market. Unsurprisingly, the initiative has suffered setbacks in light of the economic gridlock that has all but paralysed investment.
As energy prices fluctuate through market cycles, owners and operators of natural gas engines will seek ways to reduce their energy costs. This is especially true in power generation markets where fuel costs directly affect profitability.
Although renewables are key to us achieiving a low-carbon future the growing percentage of renewable resources on the grid can result in its potential destabilization because of the inherent intermittant availability of these resources.
Contrary to popular opinion, cybercrime is a risk to all industries and not just among companies dealing with payment cards or personal customer information.
PEi: What is the UK's smart meter roll-out trying to achieve?
Earlier this summer you could have been forgiven for thinking that the solution to achieving a future of low-carbon power generation and security of electricity supply had been found.
In July, the UK government published its long-awaited Electricity Market Reform White Paper, which has highly laudable aims – encourage investment, establish a secure low-carbon energy mix and keep consumer bills down, but can they be delivered?
Electricity generation is set to climb steadily up to 2030, with coal remaining the dominant fuel source, finds Frost & Sullivan's Annual Global Power Generation Forecasts 2011.
Chris Huhne, the UK's energy minister, has unveiled radical electricity market reforms intended to bring £200bn ($320bn) of investment in generation infrastructure by 2020.
Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard has announced details of a controversial proposed carbon tax that would impose a A$23 ($24) levy on each tonne of carbon emitted by the country's 500 biggest polluters from July 2012.
American Electric Power (AEP) is terminating its cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and putting on hold its plans for commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS), citing uncertain US climate policy and the weak economy.
ABB has received a $1bn contract to connect offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the German mainland power grid by 2015 from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT.
Scottish company Rental Solutions & Services (RSS), a global provider of rental power, temporary cooling and mobile water solutions, has installed 80 MVA of rental power in the Sultanate of Oman.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the development of Release 5 of the Centum VP integrated production control system, the company's flagship product and a cornerstone of the VigilantPlant concept that aims to help customers realize the ideal plant.
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