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Press Releases
ABS Consulting Creates Strategic Partnership with NAES Corporation to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity in the Power and Energy Sector as Threats Continue to Emerge
HOUSTON, Texas (Nov. 16, 2021) – ABS Group Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a leading global risk management company, and NAES Corporation, the energy industry’s largest independent provider of O&M services, have formed a partnership to provide industrial cybersecurity services for critical infrastructure in the power and energy sector. Through this collaboration, NAES will have enhanced […]
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News
EIA Notes Power Demand Destruction From Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic is altering the power landscape, with utilities and other power generators forced to adjust for load disruptions. Power consumption is changing as commercial and industrial electricity users close their businesses, and load is shifting to the residential sector with workers now settled in home offices, and students practicing remote and distance learning. […]
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Connected Plant
GE Shelves Plans to Spin-Off Digital Business
GE will retain its lucrative digital business—not spin it off, as had been planned—but it will sharpen the division’s focus on four key markets, including electric utilities and power generation, GE Digital CEO Pat Byrne told customers in an Oct. 31 letter. “I want to affirm that GE Digital is staying in GE,” Byrne wrote. […]
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Gas
Demonstration Advances to Produce Hydrogen Using Molten Salt Reactor Nuclear Technology
Terrestrial Energy USA, a company that is developing a fourth-generation molten salt nuclear reactor, has joined forces with Southern Co. and several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, in a research and development (R&D) project that seeks to pin down whether its reactor technology can produce hydrogen efficiently using nuclear heat and power. The […]
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Press Releases
Siemens Gamesa wins 140 MW of wind power orders in India for multiple projects
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has won multiple wind power orders for a total of 140 MW from several industrial customers and a leading independent power producer (IPP) in India. Specifically, the company will handle the entire infrastructure needed to operate these projects (with installed capacity ranging between 2 MW and 58 MW), together with the […]
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O&M
12 Tips for Centrifugal Pump Safety
Centrifugal pumps are one of the most popular types of pumps used both domestically and in industrial settings. There are various designs of centrifugal pumps (Figure 3), and they all work in a similar manner
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Gas
Siemens Launches 44-MW Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Model for Fast Power Demand Surge
Siemens in November introduced the SGT-A45 TR, a mobile 44-MW aeroderivative gas turbine designed for the world’s booming fast power market. While the product’s launch is pivotal for the giant technology conglomerate—which has suffered flagging orders for large gas turbines—Siemens’ interest in distributed generation also points to a prominent direction in which the future of […]
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Coal
Death Toll at 35 in India Plant Explosion; Officials Point to High Pressure in Boiler
Officials in India on November 6 said the death toll has risen to 35 after an explosion and fire November 1 at NTPC’s Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station in Uttar Pradesh state. NTPC, the nation’s largest power utility, said flue gases and steam were released in the blast, which occurred in a 500-MW coal-fired unit […]
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GE’s Global Electricity Monitoring & Diagnostics Center to Further Reduce Power Outages Worldwide with Large-Scale Industrial IoT Implementation
San Ramon, California (October 3, 2017) — GE Digital (NYSE: GE) announced today that GE Power’s Monitoring & Diagnostics Center in Atlanta will utilize the company’s Predix-based Asset Performance Management (APM) software, bringing the strength of the Industrial IoT to power producers and utilities around the world. Running GE Digital’s APM solution will help further […]
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