Mitsubishi Power successfully installed its Upgraded Reliability Package for VPI Energy’s 812-MW gas turbine combined-cycle power plant at Damhead Creek Power Station in Kent, England. The package includes an upgrade for the turbine control system and elements to improve start-up response, performance, and reliability at Damhead Creek’s natural gas-fired facility. The Damhead Creek Power Station was commissioned in 2001 and provides flexible power for southeast England on the Hoo Peninsula.
Baker Hughes and Gianmarco Technologies agreed to advance and commercialize hot potassium carbonate solutions across several energy and industrial sectors. The HPC process will be combined with Baker Hughes’ turbomachinery technology—including trains for flue gas compression, expansion, and mechanical vapor recompression—for post-combustion carbon capture applications.The partners will leverage multi-sector pilot plant testing and provide fully integrated, customized solutions to help lower carbon-capture costs.
SoftInWay recently launched an AI-powered engineering environment, dubbed AxSTREAM AI, to minimize modeling friction, quicken iteration cycles, and assist engineering teams with obtaining design insights in the early workflow. The software offers AI-assisted modeling, optimization, and design exploration capabilities, allowing engineers to define turbomachinery components and system-level models with a few factors, including design intent, constraints, and operating conditions.
GE Vernova and Xcel Energy signed a strategic alliance agreement to bolster their long-term partnership and accelerate a reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy landscape. The SAA will support Xcel Energy’s power generation and grid projects into the 2030s, reliant upon GE Vernova’s portfolio of equipment and services such as gas turbines, wind turbines, and synchronous condenser technology.
Siemens Energy has finalized $1 billion investment plans to increase U.S.-based manufacturing and significantly expand its workforce. The overall program includes brownfield expansions, upscaling transformer production and servicing, and bolstering the manufacturing of large-scale gas turbines in the United States. Also, Siemens Energy will construct a new factory in Mississippi to manufacture grid components. The investment will create modern, resilient grid infrastructure and significantly increase power generation capacity to address rapidly expanding data centers, AI buildout, and next-generation industrial electrification.
