Press Releases

Full Spectrum Inc., a leading supplier of private licensed broadband cellular data networks, elaborated today on the new IEEE 802.16s wireless standard for the industrial internet.  The new standard enables secure wireless connectivity for critical applications such as electric grids, nuclear facilities, water, gas and hazardous pipelines, transportation (including rail and autonomous vehicles), and homeland […]

Renewable*Connect® to provide solar and wind energy for convention center and City’s drinking water facility Minneapolis (July 18, 2017) –  The Minneapolis Convention Center and one of the City’s two drinking water campuses will be powered, in part, by local solar and wind energy from Xcel Energy’s Renewable*Connect program. Hundreds of other Minnesota electric customers, […]

Strategic partnership to augment customers’ ability to stop breaches and proactively detect and mitigate security risks SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 18, 2017 – CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced a joint Services go-to market partnership with Dragos, the renowned Industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity experts. Today, CrowdStrike Services offers industry-leading cyber readiness assessments, […]

The announcement that the world’s largest lithium-ion battery will be installed in South Australia by the end of 2017, will transform and fast track reliable renewable energy in Australia, as well as globally, according to a leading energy industry authority Dr Alex Wonhas, Managing Director, Energy, Resources & Manufacturing of global engineering and infrastructure advisory […]

AMETEK Land, the leading specialist in the design and manufacture of monitors and analysers for industrial infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions, will exhibit at the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) Annual Conference, July 23-25 in Stowe, Vermont, USA. The conference highlights the various applications for densified biomass, as well as trends and […]

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply engineering and equipment deliveries for two baseload power plants to Iranian energy companies Baran Niroo Beshel Co. and Tamin Niroo Saam Co. This is a breakthrough project as Wärtsilä is supplying the first decentralised power plants of its kind to Iran, showing results from our efforts to support the Iranian […]

The technology group Wärtsilä signed its first Asset Management Agreement for a photovoltaic (PV) power plant in April 2017. Wärtsilä will assume full responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Essakane solar plant in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. The solar plant shares a control system with a thermal power plant. Operative co-ordination […]

Yesterday the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy’s plan for the largest expansion of wind energy in the Upper Midwest. The North Dakota Public Service Commission will review the plan later this year. The new wind projects will save Xcel Energy customers billions of dollars in fuel and other costs, as compared to the […]

Voith has agreed to undertake a pioneering collaborative hydropower study with the National University of La Plata (UNLP), in Argentina, in an uprating and modernization research on the existing Argentinian large hydropower plants.  In early June, Voith President and CEO, Dr. Hubert Lienhard, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Prof. Marcos Actis, Dean of the […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel together witnessed the signing of a joint cooperation agreement between Mr. Lu Chun (Chairman of China Three Gorges Corporation) and Dr. Hubert Lienhard (President and CEO of Voith Group) in Berlin. The agreement covers the delivery of two 350 MW units to Zhejiang Changlongshan pumped storage […]