Press Releases

With its increasing use of solar and wind power, Portugal has for many years been focusing on the flexible and dynamic potential of pumped storage to stabilize electricity grids. In the north-west of the country, the new pumped storage plant Frades II has been in operation since April 2017. Technology Group Voith supplied the plant […]

NAES Corporation, a broad-based provider of plant operations, maintenance, fabrication, construction, engineering and technical services, has acquired Gridforce Energy Management LLC, a Houston-based firm that provides energy control and integration management services to transmission, merchant generation, micro-grids, load-serving entities and demand response clients throughout North America. “Gridforce opens a door into the transmission space, which […]

Project Optimizes Denver’s Peña Station NEXT Net-Zero Energy Development The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Panasonic Corporation and Xcel Energy to simulate and optimize the energy load profile of Peña Station NEXT, a planned 382-acre mixed-use development in Denver, Colo. The project will employ the grid modeling […]

Servomex, the world leader in gas analysis, has launched the AquaXact 1688: a rugged, fast and accurate moisture sensor that can be used as a standalone 4-20mA loop-powered device, or digitally interfaced to Servomex’s AquaXact control unit, SERVOPRO MonoExact DF310E oxygen analyzer or forthcoming SERVOPRO MultiExact 4100 multi-gas analyzer. Using a class-leading, ultra-thin film  technology […]

With the ‘Tolo 1’ onshore wind project, Siemens Gamesa has secured its first order in Indonesia for the gearless SWT-3.6-130 wind turbines. The wind power plant developed by Equis Energy, the largest renewable energy IPP (independent power producer) in the Asia-Pacific region, will be installed by late 2017. Commissioning is planned for early 2018. Equis […]

MAN Diesel & Turbo successfully commissioned eight type 18V48/60 engines in the new “Planta MAN 140” power plant in Los Brasiles, Nicaragua and handed them over to the operator, ALBA Generación S.A. Based in Augsburg, the company is also responsible for engineering and delivery of the engines and equipment, steel structure, piping and electrics. With […]

Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ:LTBR), a U.S. nuclear energy company, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the Korean Intellectual Property Office (“KIPO”) for a key divisional patent covering two major inventions: (1) Lightbridge’s innovative metallic fuel assembly design for Western-type pressurized water reactors incorporating four-lobe, helically twisted metallic fuel rods, and (2) […]

CyberX, provider of the most widely-deployed industrial cybersecurity platform for continuously reducing ICS risk, today announced new breach and attack vector simulation technology that incorporates proprietary analytics to predict and help prevent targeted attacks on critical Operational Technology (OT) assets. An industry first, CyberX’s new ICS Attack Vector Prediction technology generates a visual representation of […]

As part of the addition of two new high efficiency units to the Tanjung Jati B coal-fired power plant in Central Java, Indonesia, Clyde Bergemann was entrusted with the delivery of the bottom ash handling systems. Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS), supplier of the ultra-supercritical pressure boilers, opted for DRYCONTM, Clyde Bergemann’s class leading […]

GE’s record-setting 9HA gas turbine technology will be heart of new 780 megawatt (MW) Tambak Lorok facility GE Power Services to provide multi-year service agreement for 15 years GE Capital to work with PT Perusahan Listrik Negara (PLN) to secure debt financing for the power plant project PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB) deploys Predix*-based Asset […]