Centrica And Coterra Energy Announce Natural Gas Sale And Purchase Agreements
The title of this post, is the same as that of this news item from Centrica.
These three bullet points, act as sub-headings.
- Coterra will supply 100,000 MMbtu/d of natural gas for a period of 10 years, commencing in 2028.
- Volume supplied sufficient to heat 400,000 homes per year.
- Agreement expands Centrica’s growing LNG business.
These three paragraphs say more about the deal and add more on its context.
Centrica LNG and Coterra today announced the execution of two natural gas sale and purchase agreements. Under the contracts, Coterra will supply 100,000 MMbtu/d of natural gas linked to European gas prices such as TTF and NBP, for a period of 10 years, commencing in 2028.
This major gas deal will reduce the market risk in Centrica’s LNG portfolio by purchasing US gas on the same price indices under which the LNG is subsequently sold, and help underpin customer energy supplies for a decade. The volume supplied is sufficient to heat 400,000 homes per year, further cementing Centrica’s global role supporting energy security.
The deal follows similar agreements over recent years, demonstrating Centrica Energy’s innovative partnership approach, one of the key pillars of its successful and growing LNG business.
It certainly looks like Centrica are doing their best for UK energy security.
It also looks to me, that it is a low risk deal.
It should also help to keep us all warm in the UK, until renewable electricity and hydrogen come fully on stream.
Scottish Ministers Approve 200MW Battery Storage Project
The title of this post is the same as that as this article on Solar Power Portal.
These three paragraphs add further meat to the story.
Developer Intelligent Land Investments (ILI) Group has received planning consent for a 200MW battery energy storage system (BESS).
The BESS will be adjacent to the Easterhouse substation near Gartcosh, Glasgow, at Whitehill Farm. ILI Group received Section 36 planning consent, meaning that the BESS is classed as a change to the existing consent granted to the generating substation.
Consent from Ministers follows support for the project from both the Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council.
ILI seem to be doing well, as they regularly appear in my data searches.
The article sums up ILI Group’s portfolio like this.
ILI Group has a portfolio of over 4.7 GW energy storage projects, including 2.5 GW of utility-scale battery storage and 2.5 GW pumped storage hydro.
They must be doing something right.
ILI Group’s biggest success to date would appear to be developing the Red John pumped hydro power station, which they sold to Statkraft, as I reported in Statkraft To Acquire Major Loch Ness Pumped Storage Hydro Project From Intelligent Land Investments Group.
Conclusion
The batteries and the pumped storage keeps coming in Scotland.
It appears Scotland will not only generate the renewable energy, but store it until it is needed.
As a Control Engineer, my nose is telling me, that Scotland is going to need a few more interconnectors to sell the energy to those, who need it.
Alternatively, it will attract industries, that will need a lot of electricity.
RWE Gets Go-Ahead For 100 MW Electrolyzer For Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Project
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
German energy company RWE has secured construction and environmental permits to build a 100 MW electrolyzer in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The electrolyzer is part of system integration solutions associated with OranjeWind, an offshore wind project RWE is jointly developing with TotalEnergies in the Dutch North Sea.
These first threee paragraphs gove more information.
RWE described the permits as an important step in developing 100 MW of green hydrogen production at Eemshaven which, if built, will contribute to the onshore energy system integration plans associated with the 795 MW OranjeWind offshore wind project.
To remind, in July this year, TotalEnergies entered into an agreement with RWE to acquire a 50 per cent stake in the OranjeWind and said it would use its share of the electricity from the offshore wind project to power 350 MW electrolyzer projects that will produce about 40,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually.
With the necessary permits in place, RWE stated it will be able to develop a 100 MW electrolyzer on a plot adjacent to the Magnum Power Station in Eemshaven.
I went to Eemshaven in The Train Station At The Northern End Of The Netherlands. The area looks like it will be the centre of the Dutch hydrogen industry.
This post is called The Dutch Plan For Hydrogen. The Dutch appear to want to be big in hydrogen.
A 100 MW offshore electrolyser is a good start.
Pumped Storage Hydro In The Highlands – Is Anywhere Still Off Limits?
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on UK Climbing.
This is the sub-heading.
Are the enormous Earba and Fearna hydro projects merely the thin end of an ever bigger wedge? Thanks to a relaxed developer-friendly planning regime, is anywhere in Highland Scotland now safe from energy projects designed to feed an insatiable demand down south? In pursuit of clean power, do we risk permitting huge and irreparable harm across our remaining wild habitats and scenic land? And if so, what (and who) is it all really in aid of? It’s not too late to shed light on the murky world of Highland mega-energy, says Jane Meek, but time is running out for our mountain heritage.
These are the first three paragraphs.
In case you haven’t heard, Earba is the codename for a massive pumped storage hydro scheme to be hosted by Ardverikie Estate of Monarch of the Glen fame on behalf of Gilkes Energy, a Lakes-based engineering firm hitherto better known as a developer of small-scale run-of-river hydro schemes on Scottish burns and rivers. Some of these may be familiar to you: they include Pattack on Ardverikie Estate, Ben Glas on Glen Falloch Estate near Crianlarich, and Neaty Burn in Glen Strathfarrar, to name just three.
Gilkes Energy has now moved up into the big league of pumped storage hydro (PSH). Visit their homepage to admire a brief slide show of projects past, present and in planning. It’s glossy professional stuff, just what you’d expect from the self-styled “leading independent developer” of conventional hydro and PSH in the UK.
The aerial shots are particularly fine but… hang on a minute… isn’t that Loch a’ Bhealaich Leamhain down there, gleaming like a pearl in the high pass between Munros Beinn a’ Chlachair and Mullach Coire an Iubhair (Geal Charn as was)? And … oh dear, isn’t that Loch Fearna, the glittering shelf lochan below Spidean Mialach, immortalised in countless photographs by walkers crossing the col between Spidean and neighbouring Gleouraich? From the slopes above Fearna, the views across Loch Quoich to Gairich and beyond are simply stunning. After watching the slide show, you may feel simply stunned.
The author of the article makes a statement and asks a question.
It’s industrialisation on a vast scale. Are these truly the right schemes in the right places?
The author may have a point, but environmentalists will argue that saving the planet is more important and that pumped storage hydroelectricity is one of the technologies, that will help us do that!
The Anonymous Widower 