Southern Water partners with Veolia to turn sludge into renewable energy
In an effort to further reduce its carbon footprint, Southern Water is turning to sewage to boost renewables generation. At present, the water and sewage company generates 17 percent of its electricity demand from 16 combined heat and power (CPH) sites, with total renewable electricity generation currently totaling 48.3GWh. With new Veolia combined heat and power (CPH) engines installed at its treatment facilities in Hampshire and Kent, Southern Water will be well equipped to expand its renewables portfolio.
The new projects at Hampshire and Kent have seen Veolia implement project design, installation and operation of biogas cogeneration units, which converts wastewater from Southern Water’s 39,000 kilometers of sewage networks into biogas through anaerobic digestion (AD).
Most powerful cogeneration turbine in the world built in Yekaterinburg
Specialists of the Ural turbine plant (“Rotech” holding) delivered to their customer,“Mosenergo” JSC, the T-295 most powerful cogeneration turbine in the world.
According to Evgeny Kuivashev, the Sverdlovsk region Governor, the device will provide more than 100,000 flats with heat. It has been constructed with the application of modern technologies, absolutely new vanes are used providing total customers’ economizing up to $3m a year.
Serbia’s NIS starts operation of 2.41 MW co-generation plant
BELGRADE (Serbia), February 10 (SeeNews) – Serbian oil and gas company NIS [BEL:NIIS] said on Friday it started the operation of a 2.41 MW co-generation plant near Novi Knezevac, in northern Serbia.
NIS has invested a total of 2.6 million euro ($2.76 million) in the construction of the power plant, located in the Majdan oil and gas field, the company said in a statement.
AB and Cartiera di Momo: energy efficiency in the paper industry switches to cogeneration
AB’s cogeneration is confirmed as an ideal environment- and economy-friendly solution for companies and a perfect choice for energy-intensive sectors such as paper-cardboard-coated board production. Cartiera di Momo S.p.A., based in Momo (Novara), was born in 1963 and over the years has established itself as a dynamic European company. Cartiera di Momo has chosen to adopt a “green” policy linked to energy efficiency by relying on AB, a world leader in the cogeneration sector, to rationalize the use of fossil fuels. This has allowed cost savings and improvement of environmental conditions with respect to greenhouse gases.
Tesla wants to lower your electricity bill with a battery for your home
Tesla is best known as the maker of luxurious, ludicrously fast electric vehicles. But the company’s larger effort is to diminish reliance on fossil fuels and enhance opportunities to create renewable energy. Some stations in the automaker’s quick-charging system are already solar-powered. Last fall Tesla purchased SolarCity, America’s largest solar energy service provider. Now the brand wants to bring the option of alternative power to your home.
One of the means for accomplishing this is the new Tesla Powerwall, a 14 kWh battery pack that can store enough solar energy to run a 1,000-square-foot house for a day. Solar panels work only when the sun is shining, so quality batteries are key for nighttime or cloudy-day use of the electricity they create. The Powerwall can also be used to store energy bought from the grid during lower-price off-peak hours for use whenever you want. It can also store surplus solar energy that can, in many locales, be sold back to local utility companies. It can even act as a backup power source for your house in case of an outage or emergency, even if you don’t have a solar array, storing electricity to use if the grid is down, much like a silent generator.
The Government’s nuclear power plans: is a rational debate possible?
Earthlife Africa and the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) instituted legal action against the Minister of Energy in October 2015. This legal action requests the Western Cape High Court to declare unlawful and unconstitutional all decisions taken to proceed with the procurement of new nuclear power plants. The ground for the application is the fact that such decisions had been taken in the absence of a procedurally fair public participation process and without a formal determination (as required under the Electricity Regulation Act, No. 4 of 2006 (ERA)). Such a determination must establish that not only that new generation capacity is required but also the degree to which that electricity must be generated from nuclear power. The application also points out that the Minister used an outdated assessment of electricity requirements and how to address them (as set out in the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) dating back to 2010), instead of making a new determination on how much new nuclear generation capacity was required.
Tesla plugs big batteries into PG&E’s electric grid
A row of tall white boxes by the side of a Sierra foothills highway could represent a key piece of California’s future electric grid. Made by Tesla, the boxes contain thousands of battery cells — the same cells that power Tesla’s luxury cars. But at this installation, at a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. substation in Browns Valley (Yuba County), the batteries soak up electricity whenever it’s cheap and feed it back onto the grid when demand hits its daily peak.
The project, operational since the start of the month, represents a collaboration between PG&E and Tesla on one of California’s biggest energy goals: storage.
Veolia CHP adds to renewable generation from food waste
Veolia has increased its capacity for generating renewable energy from food waste with a contract to design and manage a 520kWe biogas-fired combined head and power (CHP) energy plant for Rose Hill Recycling in Gloucestershire.
The CHP plant is fuelled by the biogas derived from mixed food waste collected from across the Cotswolds and will save around 1750 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. The new CHP will increase the use of resources and make the site energy self-sufficient using renewable energy.
International Cogeneration Equipment Market 2020
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The cogeneration process involves simultaneous production of heat and electricity from a single source. This technology evolved a century ago along with steam turbine power plants. The world’s first central power station was also the first cogeneration plant that was commissioned in Manhattan in 1884. Though the technology is century old, it garnered attention from the 1980s as technological advances led to improved cogeneration cycle efficiency. Over the years, emergence of new technologies for power generation coupled with enhanced cycle efficiency fueled the sales of cogeneration equipment.
