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€1.3 billion a year between 2025 and 2030
translates into a decrease of generation
costs of €4 billion a year, while investing
€3.4 billion a year between 2025 and 2040
decreases generation costs by €10 billion
a year, " it finds. ENTSO-E, notably, also recently
moved to implement coordinated
multi-sectorial planning support (MSPS)
in future TYNDP roadmaps to provide a
more " holistic " approach to the energy
transition. The " Smart sector integration "
concept has become " an important topic
on the European energy policy agenda, "
and it will be important to " enhance flexibility
across various energy sectors, " as
well as to allow development toward " a
more energy- and cost-efficient energy
system, " it said. MSPS essentially serves
as an umbrella for infrastructure planning
activities, and it will be a starting point for
system and sector development plans. It
will consider all types of primary energy,
secondary energy, infrastructures, transformation,
storage, and end-use needs,
as well as their technologies, it said.
GE Inks Agreement for Pumped Hydro
Development in Australia. GE Renewable
Energy on Aug. 4 signed an agreement
with Walcha Energy, developer of
a massive 4-GW hybrid energy complex
proposed around the town of Walcha,
New South Wales, Australia, to provide
technical and commercial support to accelerate
development of the 500-MW
Dungowan pumped-storage project.
The pumped hydro storage plant is a
key part of the Walcha Energy Project,
and it is intended to anchor the broader
development and ensure that additional
wind and solar resources can be reliably
and safely fed into the grid. The plant will
be built in the New England Renewable
Energy Zone (REZ), New South Wales's
second REZ that will be dedicated to
the development of 8 GW of renewable
power. " Nearly half of the more than 8
GW of hydropower capacity operating
in Australia today is powered by our turbines,
generators or both. However, it
has been many years since new hydro
capacity was built in Australia, so GE Renewable
Energy is excited and proud to
be at the forefront of the next wave of
Australian hydropower capacities, " said
Pascal Radue, CEO of GE Renewable
Energy Hydro Solutions.
Kenya Explores Nuclear Power. Kenya's
nuclear agency (NuPEA) on Aug. 4 submitted
impact studies to the National
Environment Management Authority for
the country's first nuclear power plant, a
project it estimates could cost $5 billion.
While the agency said it is still evaluating
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technologies, it added, " The first nuclear
power plant of 1,000 MW is expected to
be commissioned by the year 2027 and
it is expected to grow to 4,000 MW by
2035. " The country said the power will
be needed to fuel its growing industrial
sector, and President Uhuru Kenyatta
has expressed ambitions to ramp up Kenya's
installed capacity from 2,712 MW
as of April to 22,000 MW by 2031 to
meet anticipated demand. Nearly 50%
of the country's generation supply comes
from geothermal sources. The remainder
comes from gas, hydro, solar, wind,
and coal. In recent years, the country
has rolled out a national electrification
strategy that seeks to provide universal
electricity service to all households and
businesses by 2022. In 2018, 75% of the
population had access to power, but service
in many parts of the country remains
inadequate and unaffordable. ■
-Sonal Patel is a POWER senior
associate editor.
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