Press Releases

May 24, 2016 01:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, the Arizona Public Service Company’s Palo Verde Generating Station in Wintersburg, Ariz., was honored with a Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Top Innovative Practice (TIP) award for enhancing plant performance. The Westinghouse Combustion Engineering Vendor Award went to Palo Verde for successfully piloting commercial application of […]

CAMBRIDGE, Minn. (May 23, 2016) – U.S. Water’s Cambridge, Minnesota, facility, the leading national provider of integrated solutions for water treatment, was awarded a Meritorious Achievement in Occupational Safety 2015 Governor’s Safety Award during the 2016 Minnesota Safety & Health Conference in Minneapolis. The 2016 Minnesota Safety & Health Conference was organized by the Minnesota […]

DES MOINES, Iowa – (May 23, 2016) – MidAmerican Energy Company released a video today depicting the construction of the largest land-based wind turbine ever built in the United States. “Reaching New Heights” uses a combination of time-lapse footage, aerial photography and behind-the-scenes action shots to document the steps involved in building MidAmerican Energy’s first […]

LONDON – May 20, 2016 Plant in Wales will provide low-carbon energy for up to 5 million households Bechtel, the global engineering and construction firm, today announced it has been selected, with joint venture partners Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe, Ltd. and Japan Gas Corporation, to deliver a new, two-reactor nuclear plant in Wales, United Kingdom […]

MAN Diesel & Turbo has received an EPC-contract to build a power plant for the Arabian Cement Company (ACC) in Saudi Arabia. The 40 MW plant will be equipped with two type 18V48/60 TS engines and will provide power to a cement factory in Rabigh, around 120 km north of Jeddah, at the red sea […]

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Scuderi Clean Energy (SCE) today announced that its system heat rates can be significantly lower than the traditional power generation systems on the market today. Today’s wholesale electric market is directly related to the cost of natural gas (NG).  In the U.S., more and more power generation […]

Groundbreaking partnership with NRG Energy will provide increased renewable wind energy to power Dow Operations  MIDLAND, Mich. – May 17, 2016 – Today, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) advances its vision to accelerate the development of cost-effective clean energy alternatives and reduce carbon emissions by increasing its clean energy target from 400 MW to […]

Fast-track automation project boosts reliability and energy output PITTSBURGH (May 17, 2016) – Longview Power’s rehabilitation of its 700-megawatt power plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, has transformed an operation previously beset by frequent outages and poor performance into one of the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired plants in the United States. Emerson (NYSE: EMR) contributed to […]

The inauguration of KivuWatt, a 25 MW Smart Power Generation power plant supplied by Wärtsilä, took place in Kibuye, Rwanda on Monday 16 May. The plant is powered by three Wärtsilä 34SG engines running on methane gas that is lifted from the depths of Lake Kivu. The ceremony was hosted by the owner of the […]

VÄSTERÅS, Sweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) in Finland to deliver new feedwater spargers to the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units 1 and 2. The scope of the contract is for designing, analyzing, manufacturing and installing eight feedwater spargers. Feedwater spargers distribute water […]