Press Releases

  • AMSC LAUNCHES ITS SOLARTIE™ GRID INTERCONNECTION SOLUTION FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS

    – Industry’s First Optimized Utility-Scale PV Interconnection System Introduced at Solar Power International 2010
    – Provides Centralized Control of Real and Reactive Power at the Point of Interconnection 
    – Enables Developers to Meet the Most Stringent Grid Interconnection Requirements With Proven, Cost-Effective Technology

  • RBG successfully completes TOTAL CSUP

    RBG, the leading provider of fabric maintenance and construction support to the global energy industry, has successfully completed their part in the Cross Site Upgrade Project (CSUP) for TOTAL E&P UK Limited (‘TOTAL’). RBG has held the TOTAL fabric maintenance contract since December 2006, covering the Elgin/Franklin, Alwyn and Dunbar offshore assets and the onshore […]

  • Tenaska Carbon Capture Projects Receive International Recognition, Support

    OMAHA, Neb. – Two Tenaska projects aimed at substantially reducing carbon emissions from power generating plants have received international recognition in the form of grants from the Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute, based in Australia. Receiving the grants underscores Tenaska’s position among the leading developers worldwide of technologies to limit emissions of carbon […]

  • EMERSON WINS MAJOR CONTRACT TO PROVIDE INVERTERS AND PLANT-WIDE CONTROLS FOR WHAT WILL BE CALIFORNIA’S LARGEST PHOTOVOLTAIC FACILITY

    ST.LOUIS (Oct. 7, 2010) – Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has been awarded a contract to supply power inverters and plant-wide controls for what will be California’s largest photovoltaic power generation facility and one of the largest in the world.  Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) awarded the contract to Emerson for the zero-emission solar projects in Kings County, […]

  • ENERCON Expands Fossil and Industrial Engineering Capabilities

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 7, 2010) Enercon <http://www.enercon.com> Services, Inc (ENERCON), a nationwide engineering services company, recently expanded their engineering design capabilities to include fossil and industrial, with the addition of over 40 experienced professionals in their Birmingham, Ala. engineering center. The newly formed Fossil & Industrial Engineering group is a part of the Power Generation […]

  • Alstom Grid’s Dr. Lawrence Jones Appointed to US Government Smart Grid Advisory Committee

    Washington DC – 05 October, 2010 — Officials of Alstom Grid, a world leader in the field of electricity transmission and electric grids for over a century, announced that Dr. Lawrence E. Jones, Ph.Dd (EE), has been appointed by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to a three-year […]

  • MWM Container ‒ The One-Stop Solution

    MWM Container ‒ The One-Stop Solution Mannheim, April 29, 2010 In addition to the recent expansion of the product range with the new genset TCG 2020 K, MWM from Mannheim, Germany, now wants to increase its presence in the field of complete turnkey systems. In this context, the company has introduced the new MWM container, […]

  • GEA awarded major orders from Morocco and Hong Kong

    Bochum, October 04, 2010 – GEA Mechanical Equipment has received 2 major orders for the delivery of fuel systems for a gas turbine power plant in Morocco and of decanters for the municipal waste water clarification plant of the mega-zone Hong Kong. For the expansion of the gas turbine power plant “Kenitra” to the north […]

  • PROGRAM TO CREATE BIODIESEL FROM BROWN GREASE BEGINS OPERATION AT SAN FRANCISCO TREATMENT PLANT

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 1, 2010 – A demonstration plant that creates biodiesel fuel from restaurant trap grease (commonly called brown grease), located at the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Francisco, has begun operation.   Developed by URS Corporation, it is the first municipal wastewater program in the United States to create biodiesel from […]

  • Utilities Need Improved Communications Networks to Improve Energy Independence and Sustainability

    Washington — The Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) today released a landmark study, “Utility Communications Needs: Key Factors That Impact Utility Communications Networks,” that articulates for the first time in a comprehensive manner the key requirements that utilities and communications service providers must meet in order to provide the reliable, robust, secure and ubiquitous communications that […]