New Colombia Resources in Negotiations to Build a 300 MW Thermal Coal Power Plant Near their Coal Property in Colombia in Association with a Foreign Entity that Secured a US$ 200 Million L.O.I. from a Major Construction Company in China NEWS PROVIDED BY New Colombia Resources Inc.  Oct 19, 2016, 10:32 ET BARRANQUILLA, Colombia, October 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ […]

Link between Energy Storage, Renewable Power Takes on Water-Energy Nexus, Lowers Costs NEWS PROVIDED BY Advanced Microgrid Solutions  Oct 20, 2016, 16:09 ET CHINO, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Clean tech energy storage leader Advanced Microgrid Solutions(AMS) and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) today launched a landmark water-energy project using advanced energy storage systems to better integrate […]

Emerson Helps Companies Improve Earnings As Much As 15 Percent and Achieve Top Quartile Performance October 24, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the oil and gas, petrochemical, refining and other manufacturing companies face mounting pressure to achieve improved financial results, Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today launched Operational Certainty™, a technology and engineering-based […]

October 24, 2016 09:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time SEOUL, Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Westinghouse Electric Company and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Co. Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a technological exchange committee to promote a discussion and exchange of engineering capabilities between both organizations. The bilateral MOU will fully engage the partners’ capabilities in […]

Power News Don't miss these POWER magazine resources: Post Jobs | View Jobs | Buyers' Guide Court Orders EPA to Evaluate Coal Industry Job Losses Related to Air Pollution Rules A federal court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to file a plan and schedule to evaluate the consequences of its air pollution rules […]

In a major development for a novel carbon capture technology, developers are preparing to commission a 1-MWt oxy-fired pressurized fluidized bed combustion (oxy-PFBC) pilot test facility in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its Canadian counterpart, Natural Resources Canada, commemorated the facility’s construction and commissioning in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 18 […]

Siemens received an order to deliver the main components for installation at SaskPower’s planned Chinook Power Station – a 350 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant to be located near Swift Current, Saskatchewan in Canada. Customer is the Canadian engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The thermal power project, scheduled for operation in the […]

A federal court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to file a plan and schedule to evaluate the consequences of its air pollution rules on jobs, finding for a giant coal company that is suing the agency for an alleged “war on coal” waged over the past five years. In an October 17 summary […]

An explosion reported on October 13 at Luminant’s coal-fired Oak Grove Power Plant located near Franklin, Texas, was from a blown transformer, the company said. Robertson County dispatchers received a call from the power plant at 6:08 p.m., reporting that there had been an explosion at the plant “as a result of an electrical issue.” […]

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will award up to $80 million to a 10-MWe pilot project that seeks to advance the development and commercialization of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton power cycles. The plant will be managed by three research entities: the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and […]