American Electric Power has agreed to buy up to 1.6 gigawatts of Mainspring linear generators, Utility Dive reported, a large order for fuel flexible distributed generation of the kind utilities are using to serve data centre load faster than the grid can be built out; the same theme runs through the IEA grids story in this edition. The world’s first ship to ship green ammonia bunkering was completed at China’s Zhoushan port, Marine Insight reported, a genuine technical first for the fuel most often named as shipping’s long term zero carbon answer.
In Washington’s data, natural gas storage and the EIA’s weekly reporting continued on schedule, with New England wind generation up about 68 percent year on year. The European Commission opened a call for feedback on revising the cross border gas network code, the plumbing rules of the internal gas market, and the UK energy secretary used a set piece speech to argue for an energy system that delivers for all, with a companion speech on carbon capture as industrial renewal. A safety investigation reported this week examined a phosphine fumigant poisoning that killed 13 crew members aboard a bulk carrier, the deadliest cargo related incident in the recent file and a standing issue in grain shipping. A Singapore flagged container ship carrying more than 2,500 containers sank in the Strait of Hormuz, Marine Insight reported, adding to the theatre’s casualty list covered in this edition’s shipping story.