Press Releases

BOSTON (November 13, 2018) – Schneider Electric, a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced “Schneider Electric Ventures”, which identifies, nurtures and supports innovations that will make a major contribution to future sustainability and energy efficiency. Several major projects are underway and ready to be deployed. Innovation is the essential […]

Pilsen (8th November 2018) – Doosan Škoda Power has secured a contract to supply machinery for the largest waste incineration plant in Turkey and Europe, from the Swiss cleantech company Hitachi Zosen Inova AG. The Istanbul WtE (waste-to-energy) project will help utilize around one million tonnes of waste per annum. The WtE plant will be […]

ABB has signed a contract worth about $20 million with Furnas – Centrais Elétricas S.A. to supply electrical systems that will enable existing alternating current (AC) lines to transmit higher levels of power to the densely populated Southeast of Brazil. The installation is located close to Brasilia, Brazil’s capital. The order was booked in the […]

Framatome and Savannah River Remediation (SRR) successfully completed repair work on a high-level waste evaporator (3H) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. By designing and using customized components and a specialized inspection and repair technique, Framatome’s team safely cleaned, welded and sealed a contained leak from the […]

KATSUURA CITY, JAPAN (November 7, 2018) — GE has been selected by Toyo Engineering Corporation on behalf of the project owner, GK KS Power 1, a special purpose vehicle consortium by GE Energy Financial Service and K-Energy, to provide its 1,500-volt inverters to build the 24-megawatt (MW) solar plant project located in Katsuura City, Chiba […]

PORTLAND, Ore. – NuScale Power is pleased to announce it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG), Ontario’s public electricity generator, who has agreed to support NuScale in its vendor design review (VDR) with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), bringing NuScale closer to introducing its ground-breaking small modular […]

Oslo, Norway (November 7, 2018) — DNV GL, the world’s largest independent energy advisory and certification body, has successfully completed a lenders’ technical due diligence on the 25-MW Windfloat Atlantic project, the biggest floating wind farm in the Iberian Peninsula. The project is the first project-financed floating wind farm. The due diligence undertaken by DNV […]

Siemens Energy Management received an order from Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK Nett) in Norway to supply the world’s first SF6-free GIS with “clean air” and vacuum interruption systems for a voltage level of up to 145 kilovolts (kV). The switchgear is part of the Koengen substation in Bergen, which shall supply electricity from renewable energy […]

In 2021, a 260-meter high solar tower is set to rise in the Emirate of Dubai and, when the thousands of mirrors of its solar field turn to face to its summit, they will light up a CMI Energy receiver. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park, named after the Emir of Dubai, is […]

IRVING, Texas and FARNBOROUGH, UK (October 30, 2018) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction of Valero Energy Corporation’s combined heat and power cogeneration project at its Pembroke Refinery in Wales, UK. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2018. “We are […]