The project to build one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage systems started out as a bet—on Twitter. Last March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted to Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes

The technology group Wärtsilä will deliver a turnkey power plant to provide electricity for the Phase Two expansion of the Tasiast mine located in Mauritania. The contract has been signed with Tasiast Mauritanie Ltd, a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation, the Canada-based gold mining company. The order was booked in November 2017. The 60 MW […]

Valmet has entered into an agreement with KSS Energia for a turnkey automation and electrification delivery to its Siikakoski hydro power plant in Kouvola, Finland. The order is included in Valmet’s fourth quarter 2017 orders received. The first delivery will take place in the late summer of 2018, and the second delivery, one year later […]

Wood has been appointed by GE Energy Financial Services and Green Investment Group Limited as the owner’s engineer on the 650MW Markbygden ETT Onshore Wind Farm located in Swedish Lapland near the town of Piteå. The project, which comprises 179 3.63MW GE wind turbine generators, is set to become Europe’s largest single-site onshore wind farm […]

Technology Group Voith has successfully completed the modernization of the small Scottish hydroelectric power station Mucomir. Following commissioning in the autumn of 2017, the facility is now back on the grid. As well as enjoying improved cost efficiency, the plant now meets the strictest environmental standards. The facility is operated by SSE, one of the […]

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), the leading turbine OEM in Spain, where it has installed over 13 GW, has secured an order from Gas Natural Fenosa Renovables for the supply of 22 turbines to two wind farms being developed in Spain, with combined capacity of 64 MW. Both wind farms are the result of the […]

International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Marguerite Fund, Luxembourg (“Marguerite”) on the financing of the Swedish wind farm project “Grimsås”. The wind farm, which has a total capacity of 46.8 MW, has been acquired by Marguerite in an all equity deal in June 2017 from Element Power and Karftö Vind. Marguerite […]

Seeking to bring the next generation of its advanced digital solutions to water treatment professionals around the globe, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions today announced upgrades to its InSight* asset performance management (APM) system. InSight’s secure, cloud-based interface uses data and analytics to ensure assets operate at higher levels of reliability, efficiency and output.  Incorporating […]

Siemens has received an order from its customer Nizhnekamskneftekhim to build a combined cycle power plant on a turnkey basis in Tatarstan. Nizhnekamskneftekhim is a member of the TAIF Group headquartered in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The corresponding contract was signed today by Azat Bikmurzin, General Director of Nizhnekamskneftekhim, and the CEO of Siemens Russia Dietrich […]

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) believes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) needs to fast-track reform of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), NARUC President John Betkoski III said in a December 18 letter to the commission. The letter pushes for FERC’s new Chairman, Kevin McIntyre, to make […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering drafting a replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The agency on December 18 published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) soliciting comments from the public on how the replacement should look. The ANPRM is separate from the agency’s current effort to repeal the current rule. […]

Aquila Capital has acquired Project Valhalla, one of the largest wind farm projects in Europe. The project will consist of 85 of the latest V136 4.2 MW Vestas turbines and thus have an installed capacity of 357 MW with an energy output of more than 1.1 TW when it is completed. It is located on […]

In Gaildorf, the first part of the pilot project for natural-energy storage supplies green energy with immediate effect. It starts with four wind turbines, which will produce wind power with a total nominal output of 13.6 MW. Another 16 MW from the integrated pumped storage power plant will be added at the end of 2018. […]

Global coal demand fell nearly 2% in 2016, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Coal 2017 Analysis and Forecasts report, released December 18. “Demand for coal has now dropped by 4.2% since 2014, almost matching the fall of 1990-1992, which was the largest two-year decline recorded since the IEA started compiling statistics more than […]

ABB’s global engineering and consulting group has been enlisted by utility giant E.ON to work on a green field energy plant in Sweden  E.ON’s Swedish subsidiary has awarded a contract to ABB to ensure its new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility, on the outskirts of Stockholm, is set up to run efficiently and safely […]

In order to help Ghana meet its industrialization targets, Siemens (www.Siemens.com) and Rotan Power (www.RotanPower.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop and build a combined cycle power plant with a capacity of 660 megawatts (MW) at the Aboadze Power Enclave located in the western region. The MoU was signed today in the […]

The technology group Wärtsilä today announced it has signed an EPC contract to supply a 52 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant to AM Solar BV/ Jordan, a joint venture between energy provider AES Jordan and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The order was booked in November 2017. This is the first Utility Scale […]

The Solar Energy Industries Associations (SEIA) on December 5 released an anti-tariff plea specially tailored to President Donald Trump. The “America First Plan for Solar Energy” urges the president to reject tariffs proposed for imported crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) solar panels. SEIA’s plea comes as the president mulls over the whether or not to impose […]

When it comes to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the tables have turned, but the arguments are largely the same. On November 28 and 29, during the Trump administration’s only public hearing on its plan to repeal the CPP, an Obama-era regulation aimed at reducing carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, old arguments for and […]

A decision by the Canadian province of Ontario to refurbish 10 units at the Bruce and Darlington nuclear generating stations (BNGS and DNGS) and extend the life of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) will likely provide a low-risk means of supplying residents low-emission, low-cost electricity, according to a November 21 report published by the […]

In the next 25 years, the world will turn increasingly to renewables and natural gas to meet energy demand, turning away from coal, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2017 (WEO). As in previous years, the report makes predictions based on different scenarios. This year’s include a New Policies Scenario, which […]

MAN Diesel & Turbo has been ordered to deliver a total of 15 18V48/60 gensets to Bangladesh by its new customer Confidence Power Holdings Ltd. The gensets will have a capacity of 18.55 MW each and supply three new power plants in the south Asian country. Two of the plants will generate 113 MW each […]

In the continuing expansion of its digital power plant solution offerings, Siemens has signed an agreement with China Resources Power Holdings Company Co. Ltd. (CR Power) to implement the setup of an integrated and connected Remote Operation Center (ROC) for CR Power’s fleet. Digitally connecting its power generation assets will give CR Power real-time insights […]

The Zollern Group’s Plain Bearing Technology division has entered into an exclusive technology license agreement with Pioneer Motor Bearing Company of the U.S. to strengthen its after-sale customer support.  The agreement empowers Pioneer to use Zollern proprietary information to provide a range of technical support services to North American end-users of Zollern hydrodynamic plain bearings. […]

The U.S. wind industry reported 29,634 MW of generation capacity was under construction or in advanced development at the end of the third quarter of 2017, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) U.S. Wind Industry Third Quarter (Q3) 2017 Market Report released October 26. The 29,634 MW is spread across 149 projects in […]

With the new SONOCHEK ultrasonic testing device, PRUFTECHNIK, the Bavarian specialist for condition monitoring systems, is entering a new field of preventive maintenance. Thanks to the new SONOCHEK, it is possible to localize specific leaks on high pressure pipes and to evaluate the total loss volume. Its broad bandwidth of 20 to 100 kHz allows […]

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a contract in Arizona, USA to provide smart power generation equipment for a new natural gas power plant with up to 200 megawatts (MW) of capacity. Tucson Electric Power (TEP), a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., is building the plant on the site of an existing generating station that currently […]

The region’s largest expansion of wind energy will be developed by local companies, Xcel Energy announced today. Golden Valley, Minn.-based Mortenson Construction will construct the Blazing Star 1 and Blazing Star 2 wind farms in southwest Minnesota. Fargo, North Dakota-based Wanzek Construction will build the Foxtail Wind Farm in North Dakota and the Freeborn Wind […]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into a license agreement with MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, IL) to commercialize NREL’s patented inverted metamorphic (IMM) multijunction solar cells. While high-efficiency multijunction solar cells are commonly used for space satellites, researchers have continued to look for ways to improve cost and […]

Construction is complete and the Eau Claire Solar* Connect Community one-megawatt solar garden is now generating clean, renewable energy for its subscribers. Xcel Energy, along with solar-developer Pristine Sun, the city of Eau Claire who owns the seven-acre property, and subscribers celebrated its completion at a ribbon-cutting today. More than 3,000 solar panels sit atop […]