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German energy group RWE has frozen development plans for its Tilbury energy centre project in the United Kingdom, which included plans for a 2,500 MW CCGT power plant, for an up to 300 MW open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) power plant and for a 100 MW energy storage facility at Tilbury, near London. The project was stopped due to high project costs and to the current adverse market conditions, which includes high wholesale gas and carbon permit prices.

Even though developing a gas-fired project would be difficult and uneconomic, RWE will keep exploring options developing the Tilbury site, which remains a good location for future energy projects. The Tilbury energy centre was meant to replace the Tilbury B coal-fired power plant that is still being demolished in stages.

US-based energy group Dominion Energy’s subsidiary Dominion Energy Virginia is moving forward on wind and solar power projects to meet its commitment of 3,000 MW of renewable energy capacity either in operation or under development by early 2022 as per the state’s Grid Transformation and Security Act. This will nearly quadruple the company’s solar capacity by 2022.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has renegotiated its power purchase agreement with the consortium led by Saudi-based developer ACWA Power and the Chinese company Shanghai Electric to support the deployment of additional capacity for the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

Russian state-held energy company Gazprom has signed an amendment to a gas supply agreement with the Austrian oil and gas company OMV. It will increase gas deliveries to Austria by an additional 1 bcm/year beyond the contractual amount for the entire period of the existing contract, which lasts until 2040.

The Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has approved the 2019-2023 business plan published by the state-run oil and gas firm Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved Energy Transfer Partners’ (ETP) plans to start natural gas service on the final laterals required to complete the US$4.2bn Rover gas interstate pipeline project. All the other laterals and the associated compression and metering facilities located in West Virginia are now in service and the whole pipeline,…

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has authorised short-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports (for a period of two years) from Cheniere Energy’s US$15bn Corpus Christi LNG project to non-free trade agreement countries. The order also authorizes initial commissioning volumes and other exports in a volume of 2.1 bcf/d (approximately 59 mcm/d).

French energy group Total has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US-based gas holding company Sempra Energy to provide a framework for jointly developing LNG export projects in North America. Under the MoU, Total is considering contracting for roughly up to 9 Mt/year of LNG offtake across Sempra Energy’s LNG export development projects across North America,…