Belgium

Heidenheim/Coo. The technology group Voith has won a major order to automate the Belgian pumped storage power plant Coo-Trois-Ponts. By 2020, the company will have completed its phased delivery of new control and excitation technology and speed controllers for the power plant’s six machines. The new automation technology will ensure the continuous operation and maximum […]

Reports out of Germany suggest that the city of Aachen plans to sue the Tihange nuclear power plant over what it claims is the plant’s failure to adequately address safety issues at the facility. Aachen—a city with roughly 250,000 people—is located about 71 km (44 miles) west of Cologne on Germany’s border with Belgium and […]