Press Releases

Emerson Helps Companies Improve Earnings As Much As 15 Percent and Achieve Top Quartile Performance October 24, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the oil and gas, petrochemical, refining and other manufacturing companies face mounting pressure to achieve improved financial results, Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today launched Operational Certainty™, a technology and engineering-based […]

October 24, 2016 09:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time SEOUL, Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Westinghouse Electric Company and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Co. Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a technological exchange committee to promote a discussion and exchange of engineering capabilities between both organizations. The bilateral MOU will fully engage the partners’ capabilities in […]

Siemens received an order to deliver the main components for installation at SaskPower’s planned Chinook Power Station – a 350 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant to be located near Swift Current, Saskatchewan in Canada. Customer is the Canadian engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The thermal power project, scheduled for operation in the […]

Continuous contributions in hydroelectric generating equipment for over forty years TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that Toshiba Group has won major orders to supply hydroelectric generating equipment for the Malea Hydro Power Plant Project in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The orders were received from PT Malea Energy, the subsidiary of Kalla Group that generates and […]

The alternative investment manager secures long-term cooperation with Google and OX2 Aquila Capital has extended its portfolio in the renewable energy sector with the acquisition of a large wind power project in Lehtirova in the North of Sweden. The wind park will have 41 Vestas V 126 3.6 MW turbines with an installed capacity of […]

The Danish engineering and contracting company Aalborg Energie Technik (AET) has selected a Brüel & Kjær Vibro online condition monitoring solution for machine condition monitoring of the 40MW Tilbury Green Power biomass power plant in the London area. AET and its consortium partner are responsible for the design, supply, construction, and commissioning of the plant. […]

Holyoke residents to benefit from Holyoke Gas & Electric Power Purchase Agreement Holyoke, MA – October 13, 2016 – Mt. Tom Solar, LLC, a subsidiary of ENGIE North America, held a groundbreaking ceremony today for a 5.76 megawatt solar farm on the property of the former coal-fired Mt. Tom Power Station in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Beginning […]

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Vasari Energy, Inc. a California based solar energy provider, signed a contract to purchase 450 acres of land in Maricopa County, Arizona for the development of a project with up to 68 MW of solar power. The project will be developed through Sonoran Solar Development Partners, LLC, a wholly […]

E.ON to Provide Asset Management and Balance of Plant Management at the Amazon Wind Farm in Texas AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) has selected E.ON Energy Services to provide asset management and balance of plant services for its Amazon Wind Farm Texas near Snyder, TX. The 253 megawatt facility […]

October 11, 2016 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time SAN DIEGO & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) and a consortium led by Axium Infrastructure (Axium) announced the closing of the Slate Creek Wind acquisition, by which Axium acquired a 50% ownership interest in the 150 megawatt (MW) Slate Creek Wind Project. The Slate Creek Wind Project, which is located in […]

Will launch voltage-sourced converter (VSC) based high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems business globally October 11, 2016 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will enter the global market for voltage-sourced converters (VSC) based high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems with a new HVDC verification facility to be built at […]

October 12, 2016 08:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time SPRINGFIELDS, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that it is continuing to work with the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) on an additional advanced manufacturing study to explore potential design efficiencies to reduce significantly the build lead-times of the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR). […]

Modernizing Town’s Grid Infrastructure Will Deliver Resiliency and Energy Cost Savings In an official groundbreaking ceremony today in Sterling, MA, Town officials, Massachusetts State officials, U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, Clean Energy States Alliance, and NEC Energy Solutions representatives commemorated the Sterling Energy Storage project, the Largest Battery Grid Energy Storage Installation in […]

PV power plant accounts for approximately 1% of Jordan’s total power generation capacity October 09, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time TEMPE, Ariz. & AMMAN, Jordan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that it has commissioned the 52.5 megawatt (MW)AC Shams Ma’an project in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on schedule. “First Solar has delivered […]

Strategic and Financial Highlights: Best-in-class commercial and industrial retail electricity provider in the U.S. Complements Calpine’s existing wholesale power generation footprint Approx. $700 million net cash deployed represents approx. 5x Adjusted EBITDA Highly free cash flow and credit accretive transaction October 09, 2016 07:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) announced today that […]

Another brand new combined cooling heat and power plant (CCHP) including Ansaldo Energia AE-T100 Micro Gas Turbines has been successfully commissioned in Czech Republic. It has been designed, proposed and sold by FLìDR ENERGO s.r.o., official Distributor for Ansaldo Energia Micro Gas Turbines in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Trigenerative plant is made by n.2 natural […]

Paris, October 6th 2016 AREVA has been awarded several significant contracts following an EDF tender for support activities associated with electricity generation. These services include handling of casks, low-level radioactive waste management, radiation protection and assembly of scaffolding and insulating protections. The contracts won by AREVA represent a total of several tens of millions of […]

A $38 million transmission line CLOVIS, N.M. (Oct. 6, 2016) – Xcel Energy has energized a new high-voltage transmission line across the New Mexico-Texas state line that is supporting a growing economy in eastern New Mexico and West Texas. The new Curry-to-Bailey 115-kilovolt transmission line cost approximately $38 million and spans more than 37 miles between the Curry […]

Software represents the largest revenue opportunity across all virtual power plant types, while energy storage dominates in the mixed asset segment, report finds October 05, 2016 05:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new report from Navigant Research examines the global market for virtual power plants (VPPs) and enabling technologies, providing an analysis of the market […]

October 05, 2016 02:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Energy oversupply in Peru has reached about 50%, significantly pressuring the prices and profitability of suppliers and likely creating a challenging environment for new investment, according to a new Fitch Ratings report. “Capacity has outpaced demand due to the economic slowdown, with low metal prices […]

Valmet Oyj’s trade press release on October 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EET Valmet’s advanced boiler control application for optimized combustion has been successfully commissioned at Catalyst Paper’s Rumford Mill in Maine, USA. The new combustion management application optimizes the performance of the paper mill’s fluidized bed boiler units 6 and 7. “Valmet’s experts have […]

HAILEY, Idaho (October 5, 2016) — POWER Engineers Incorporated (POWER) was awarded a contract from Gemma Power Systems to provide detailed engineering and design services for Competitive Power Venture’s (CPV) Towantic Energy Center project located on a secluded 26-acre site in Woodruff Hill Industrial Park in Oxford, Connecticut. Ronald Polaske, Gemma’s Senior Vice President stated, […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Duke Energy has completed its acquisition of Piedmont Natural Gas, closing the transaction effective today. Piedmont will retain its name and operate as a business unit of Duke Energy. Both companies are headquartered in Charlotte. The acquisition will add Piedmont’s 1 million natural gas customers to Duke Energy’s […]

GREENBELT, Maryland – September 29, 2016 – X Energy, LLC (X-energy) and Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., have entered into a memorandum of understanding as a step toward deployment of X-energy’s High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR): the Xe-100. Burns & McDonnell, a full-service engineering, construction and environmental solutions firm, will work with X-energy as […]

Key markets include Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and China, report finds September 27, 2016 05:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent report from Navigant Research examines the major offshore wind markets, with wind power capacity forecasts and global and country-level analyses, through 2020. “From a policy perspective, Europe is showing the way in […]

September 27, 2016 06:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time DULUTH, Minn. & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Minnesota Power and Smart Wires announced today their partnership to deploy an innovative solution for optimizing the flow of power on the grid. Smart Wires is a leading provider of power flow control technology for transmission systems. “The Minnesota Power deployment represents […]

NRG Reaches Renewable Energy Agreements with Flagship National Business Customers NRG has broken ground on its first community solar sites in Minnesota. Pictured here: one of the company’s existing sites in Freetown, Mass. (Photo: Business Wire) September 27, 2016 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) today announced that its renewables business […]

September 27, 2016 08:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WGL Energy Systems (WGL Energy), a WGL company (NYSE:WGL), today announced the completion of a 3.2 megawatt (MW) solar facility in Devens, a 4,400-acre community in north-central Massachusetts. The fully installed photovoltaic (PV) solar system is designed to provide power to the residential, commercial and industrial customers […]

September 27, 2016 04:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global aeroderivative gas turbine market is expected to grow at a CAGR of almost 5% during the forecast period. Global aeroderivative gas turbine market is expected to grow at a CAGR of almost 5% during the period 2016-2020. Tweet this […]

The innovative solutions by the US company will include full turbine monitoring, testing, life prediction and life extension actions for the critical failure components. September 28, 2016 11:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time HAMBURG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ACCIONA Energía, a leading renewable energy company, and the U.S. industrial software firm Sentient Science have reached an agreement with the […]