SOUTHEAST ASIA MUST CONTINUE INTEGRATE MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGIES TO ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY - BLACK & VEATCH

KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (Bernama) -- Southeast Asia must continue to prioritise the integration of renewable energy and the addition of new natural gas infrastructure to achieve an affordable, resilient and sustainable energy future, according to Black & Veatch.

Further, the industry and governments in the region must continue to collaborate on enabling long-term conditions that facilitate the deployment of future technology solutions across hydrogen and ammonia, carbon capture, energy storage and bidirectional, cross-border grids.

Black & Veatch Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Narsingh Chaudhary said a successful and equitable energy transition involved planning for and integrating multiple technologies to ensure that everyone has access to a stable and reasonably priced energy supply.

“Working in tandem with renewable energy, highly flexible and dispatchable generation, such as gas-fired power generation and small and mid-scale LNG project development, are essential to accomplishing these goals,” he added.

According to a statement, Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure solutions will share its strategies for integrating renewable energy, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen at this year’s Future Energy Asia.

Gas-fired power generation has the quick ramp-up and ramp-down capabilities needed to adapt to changing grid energy demands. Advanced gas turbines in a simple cycle configuration can supply over 400 MW to the grid in 10 minutes and are designed to reach full combined cycle load in 30 minutes to one hour.

New gas turbine technologies can operate at low loads of less than 25 per cent of their baseload capacity in some cases and ramp at 10 to 15 per cent of their full load capacity per minute.

Most modern turbine technology can co-fire emissions-free hydrogen, and by 2030, most original equipment manufacturers predict that new turbines will be 100 per cent hydrogen capable.

Black & Veatch’s survey before the ongoing energy crisis indicates that gas-fired power plants have a future as an investment class in Asia, with approximately half of the respondents believe there will be “more investment” in gas or LNG-to-power facilities combined with carbon capture, over the next five years.

-- BERNAMA