British Gas today announces new services in solar, home energy efficiency, insulation and electric vehicles to help customers accelerate their journey to decarbonise their home and save on energy bills. These are in addition to the existing heat pump price guarantee and next-gen smart home Hive technology which allows customers…

Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) together with Siemens Energy have today (22 February) announced the successful demonstration of running an aero-derived gas turbine on green methanol. The world first pilot, at the RWG facility in Aberdeen, creates the potential for significant reductions in offshore CO2 emissions.  The use of green…

World of Renewables relaunched this week, with many new and exciting features added for its members. With a new ‘WoREA Membership HUB’, there is now a conveneient central hub for members to navigate the Association’s many areas of support and advice. In addition to a brand new community forum and…

(Source: Caterpillar) District Energy St. Paul[1] and Caterpillar plan to demonstrate a hydrogen-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) system. The three-year project involves siting a Caterpillar-supplied CHP unit[2] capable of producing 2 MW and providing waste heat for useable thermal energy. The CHP unit will be fueled by various combinations…

(Source: Rolls-Royce.) A Level-1 trauma center in Staten Island, New York is adding a natural gas-fueled onsite cogeneration plant so the hospital can produce its own power. Rolls-Royce is providing two combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) trigeneration units for Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC). The system is expected to provide…

While EU governments are still debating whether they need new pipelines or can get off the natural gas tap, Lithuania has been transforming its heat supply at record speed to be able to use domestic biomass and leave the era of its energy dependence on Russia behind. Now, the country…

The technology group Wärtsilä’s capabilities in gas conversions for oil-fuelled power plants have again been recognised with a new order. Rofeica Energia, based in Barcelona, Spain, has ordered a Wärtsilä 34SG gas-fuelled engine generating set, enabling the company to secure its future in Spain’s Combined Heat and Power (CHP) market.…

The Rems-Murr waste management company in Backnang-Neuschöntal in Baden- Württemberg has two new energy-efficient combined heat and power plants in which methane from biogas plants is co-incinerated. From 2023 onwards, they will emit five times less nitrogen oxide than today. On 23 October 2019, two new combined heat and power…

SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, the first UK-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, has agreed to acquire a portfolio of cogeneration assets in Spain for a total cash consideration of approximately €64 million. The substantial majority of the portfolio’s revenues are…

Significant increase in overall efficiency + + + CHP unit equipped with SCR catalytic converters The CHP specialists from ETW Energietechnik in Moers have delivered two new cogeneration units for the municipal biogas plant in Backnang-Neuschöntal, Germany. The two old Rems-Murr waste management gas engines (AWRM) were replaced after 65,000…