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 […]

Okayama, Japan—May 16, 2016 – GE Unit (NYSE: GE), GE Energy Financial Services and Virginia Solar Group have commenced commercial operations on its jointly owned 32-megawatt Pacifico Energy Kumenan Mega Solar Project (“Kumenan Solar Project”), located in the Okayama prefecture of Japan.  As one of largest solar power plants in the prefecture and in Japan’s […]

Progress continues at the nuclear expansion site with the placement of two major components ATLANTA, May 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Georgia Power today announced the placement of more than 760 tons of major components within the turbine island for Vogtle Unit 3 – the stator assembly and the deaerator. The stator assembly, which includes the stator and […]

Wind energy and transmission project combination add up to $2.5 billion of new construction for NYS ALBANY, N.Y., May 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — HVDC transmission developer Empire State Connector Corp. (“ESC” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Invenergy who is developing a portfolio of […]

Complements GE’s Existing Technology Acquired through Alstom    Increases Engineering and Production Capacity to Meet Strong Demand Provides Added Global Manufacturing Footprint and Technology SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—May 10, 2016—GE Power, a division of GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) business of Doosan Engineering […]

SUISUN CITY, Calif., May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Potrero Hills Energy Producers, a partnership between DTE Biomass Energy Inc. and Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, recently started generating electricity from landfill gas. This cleaner source of electricity comes from a newly constructed renewable energy facility at the Potrero Hills Landfill in Suisun City, Calif. DTE Biomass Energy, the developer and operator […]

OTC Houston: The DNV GL-led WIN WIN1 Joint Industry Project (JIP) shows that for suitable fields, wind-powered water injection is technically feasible, capable of meeting performance targets, and offers a cost-competitive alternative to conventional water injection solutions. For the past year, participants from both the renewable and oil and gas industries have worked together in the […]

DEVENS, Mass., May 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMSC, a global energy solutions provider serving wind and power grid industry leaders, today announced new orders for multiple sites for D-VAR® STATCOM systems to support Australia’s electric grid. Under the terms of the order, the systems will be installed in one of the Company’s target markets, […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 9, 2016 – Six energy companies Friday officially launched Grid Assurance™, an independent company providing transmission sparing solutions for critical electric transmission equipment. Michael Deggendorf, senior vice president, Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), was named Grid Assurance™ CEO and will oversee the formation and operations of the company.  At KCP&L, Deggendorf […]

Westinghouse Electric Company, Sanmen Nuclear Power Company, Shandong Nuclear Power Company, State Nuclear Power Engineering Company and China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Company have together installed eight reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) at the world’s first AP1000 nuclear power plant units under construction in China. The complex process was improved by 11 days thanks to the […]

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 – 3:10pm PEORIA, Ill., May 3, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Caterpillar Inc. today announced the launch of Cat® Microgrid technology, an innovative suite of power systems that adds environmentally friendly solar panels, state-of-the-art energy storage, and advanced monitoring and control systems to Caterpillar’s traditional line of reliable power generation equipment, including Cat generator sets, switchgear, […]

PlantState Suite Mitigates Abnormal Situations to Improve Plant Safety, Reliability, and Productivity  HOUSTON, TX — May 3, 2016 – PAS, Inc., the leading solution provider of cybersecurity, process safety, and asset reliability in the energy, power, and process industries, today released the latest version of its PlantState Suite™ (PSS) software, featuring the industry’s first operational […]

Gasmet’s ‘CEMS II e’ is now certified for enhanced performance and an extended list of certified gases Gasmet Technologies is delighted to announce that its CEMS II e continuous emissions monitoring system has successfully completed EN 15267-3 testing using FTIR technology for the analysis of low range HF, low range NO, CH4 and Formaldehyde. “This means that it meets the […]

Conco Services Corporation announces that it has not encountered an OSHA Lost-Time safety incident in more than one million man-hours. This achievement took two-and-a-half years and has positioned Conco to provide services to companies with stringent safety standards. “We are doing our due diligence,” says Craig Lawther, CSP, Conco’s Corporate Director of Safety. “We have […]

Vaisala presents a new online measurement device for transformer dissolved gas analysis. Building on unique technology, the Vaisala Optimus(TM) DGA Monitor for Transformers solves many current problems in transformer maintenance. Power transformers are critical in the energy generation and transmission, but also one of the key vulnerabilities. This is because any transformer downtime will lead […]

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public utility in the US, is installing ABB’s static var compensator (SVC) technology to help ensure system reliability as fossil fuel component of total energy mix declines. SVC’s enhance grid stabilization and at the same time enable a smarter grid. The ongoing quest to deliver power with a lower […]

Safe-storage of historic low-level radioactive waste Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the start of work on the Port Granby low level radioactive waste management facility in Southeast Clarington, Ontario. Following a shovel turning ceremony on Friday 29 April, Amec Foster Wheeler and its joint venture partner CB&I joined the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) and […]

More compact, lighter and environmentally-friendly transformers allows Con Edison to reduce transformer replacement time from months to days First transformer of its kind worldwide Transformers for quick replacement in response to extreme weather and unexpected events Siemens is providing Con Edison, the utility that powers New York City and local areas, with six mobile resilience […]

EthosEnergy successfully completed the on-time delivery of two 223MVA, 200MW Generator rewinds worth $4m for two steam turbines owned by Indonesia Power. The Generators are located at Tanjung Priok power plant site, Jakarta. EthosEnergy reverse engineered, manufactured, installed and commissioned the generator stators within the 140 day window required by Indonesia Power. The shop work […]

High penetration of grid-connected utility solar increases market demand for accurate regional solar forecasting tools to manage energy scheduling and trading    VAISALA CORPORATION                         PRESS RELEASE                                  APRIL 28, 2016   Recent analysis from Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, reveals that in 2015 energy from grid-connected, utility-scale solar plants surpassed wind for […]

Advanced transformer technology will enable UHVDC transmission links to transmit up to 10,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity, setting a new world record in terms of capacity at the 800 kilovolt (kV) voltage level UHVDC transformer Zurich, Switzerland, April 18, 2016 – ABB has won orders worth more than $300 million to supply advanced converter transformers for […]