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Entergy Proposes Transmission Upgrades and a Comprehensive Resilience Plan
Entergy Louisiana recently announced it will begin executing a strategic blueprint for building new electric infrastructure that meets the burgeoning needs of businesses and industry to power job growth throughout the state.Louisiana has a generational opportunity that is set to create new jobs, new investment and additional revenues for local governments as local business and industries and new ...
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Terabase Raises $25M to Accelerate its Digital and Automation Solutions
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, July 19, 2023 - Terabase Energy, the leader in digital and automation solutions for solar power plants, today announced $25 Million in new financing, led by Fifth Wall, the largest asset manager focused on improving, future-proofing, and decarbonizing the built world, with participation from EDP Ventures and existing investors. This financing round will be used to support ...
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World Carbon Fiber Market
The carbon fiber market has grown rapidly since 2010, reaching over 100,000 tons in 2019 from 40,000 tons. During this period, figures were seen in the range of 10 to 12% per year with a smooth and uninterrupted growth curve. However, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the world of carbon fiber has experienced a major transformation in almost one day. In 2020, the demand for ...
By ReCap
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Best Practices from the World`s Largest Single-Sited Solar Tracker Project Qatar
Our team is 95% finished delivering materials for the world’s largest single-plot power plant under construction in the world. The 800 MW project in Qatar is so big that if you lined up all the solar trackers from this project, the line would extend the full length of Qatar (from North to South) more than 4 times, totaling 700 kilometers. A project of that magnitude calls for supply chain ...
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Duke Energy Florida Announces Installation of One-Millionth Solar Panel in State
Duke Energy Florida this week announced the installation of its one-millionth solar panel in the state at the company’s Columbia Solar Power Plant in Fort White, Fla. Duke Energy Florida plans to install a significant amount of additional solar energy over the next 10 years across the state. “This is an exciting announcement as we increasingly deliver cleaner, more reliable energy ...
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Siemens Floating Power Plants Will Support New York's Renewable Energy Strategy
Astoria Generating Company and Siemens signed a contract for the turnkey construction of two SeaFloat power barges to be equipped with eight Siemens SGT-A65 gas turbines. The barges will replace four existing power barges located at Gowanus Generating Station in the Upper Bay of Brooklyn, New York City, resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production.Siemens will preinstall the ...
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Rosatom postpones fast reactor project, report says
Rosenergoatom is expected to receive about RUB280 billion (USD4 billion) less in state funding for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Russia owing to the postponement of its fast neutron reactor programme, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported last week, citing anonymous sources. Rosenergoatom is the nuclear power plant operator subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. ...
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Greenam Energy breaks ground on India’s first floating PV plant
The project will be supplying electricity to Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation (SPIC) while the excess energy will be sold to the state power utilities. Greenam Energy Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore based AM International has recently celebrated the foundation laying ceremony meant for the construction of a 24 MW floating solar power plant. Sources reported ...
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Vanuatu seeks EPC contractor for Brenwe hydropower plant
The Vanuatu Project Management Unit (VPMU), on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management of the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, invites sealed bids by 31 May from engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors for the development of the 422 kW Brenwe hydropower plant on the island of Malekula, the second largest island of the archipelago. The run-of-river project, ...
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ReNew Power wins a 3 megawatt floating solar PV project contract
Indian renewable energy company, ReNew Power Ltd. has recently won a proposal for developing a 3 MW floating solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, marked as one of India’s largest floating solar PV projects. As per an official press release, the company claims that the floating solar PV project will have the capacity to annually generate about 4.2 million units ...
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Grid Investments Totaling as Much as $500 Billion Challenged by Clean Energy Technologies
US electricity generators may be committing their customers and investors to as much as $1 trillion in future investment and fuel costs through 2030 as they rush to build new gas-fired power plants. Yet advances in renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DERs) offer lower rates and emissions-free energy while delivering all the grid reliability services that new power plants can, ...
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The GRC Awards - Seeking the Best in Global Geothermal
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for this year’s GRC Awards. The awards recognize distinguished colleagues in the geothermal community from around the world and have been a highlight of the geothermal calendar since the late 1970’s. The winners will be honored at the GRC Annual Meeting & Expo in Reno, Nevada, USA from October ...
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Kyocera TCL Solar begins operation of Japan`s largest 13.7MW Floating Solar Power Plant
Kyoto/London − Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; herein “Kyocera”) and Tokyo Century Corporation (President & CEO: Shunichi Asada; herein “Tokyo Century”) announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC (herein “Kyocera TCL Solar”) has started operation of Japan’s largest*1 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar plant this month. Located on ...
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Kyocera TCL Solar Completes 21.1 MW Solar Power Plant on Repurposed Land in Japan
Kyoto/London − Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo Century Corporation announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has completed construction of a 21.1 megawatt (MW) utility-scale solar power plant in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. 78,144 Kyocera solar modules were installed on approximately 1 km2 of land originally planned for the construction of an industrial waste disposal facility ...
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Why Uganda is the next energy investment destination
Uganda’s immense power potential and enormous energy investment opportunities will be in focus when stakeholders and decision makers meet for a strategic two-day conference and showcase during the inaugural Future Energy Uganda in Kampala from 12-13 September 2017. “The numbers in Uganda’s energy sector speak for themselves: the country is without a doubt the next energy ...
By VUKA Group
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Deadline Nears for Global Geothermal Awards
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) would like to remind the global geothermal community to make their nominations for this year’s GRC Awards. The awards recognize distinguished colleagues in the geothermal community from around the world and have been a highlight of the geothermal calendar since the late 1970’s. The deadline for nominations is Friday, June 16. The winners will be ...
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The GRC Awards - Seeking the Best in Global Geothermal Energy
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for this year’s GRC Awards. The awards recognize distinguished colleagues in the geothermal community from around the world and have been a highlight of the geothermal calendar since the late 1970’s. The winners will be honored at the GRC Awards Luncheon, the climax to the GRC Annual Meeting ...
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Alpiq Creates Structures For Future Growth
Swiss energy company Alpiq notes that the digital transformation of the energy world covers the entire value chain from electricity generation to consumption. The integration of new renewable energies as well as the shift from traditional end customers towards prosumers present new and complex challenges to infrastructure in the energy industry. The Commerce & Trading and Energy Services ...
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Ormat Enters the Growing Energy Storage and Demand Response Markets by Acquiring the Business of Viridity Energy
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (“Ormat”) (NYSE: ORA) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the business and assets of Viridity Energy, Inc. (“Viridity”), a privately held Philadelphia-based company with nearly a decade of expertise and leadership in demand response, energy management and storage. The acquisition, which is ...
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FirstEnergy to sell Pennsylvania gas plants
FirstEnergy Corp. has filed paperwork with federal regulators stating its intent to sell four natural gas-fired power plants in Pennsylvania, part of the company’s overall strategy to exit the competitive electricity business. In a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FirstEnergy subsidiary Allegheny Energy Supply Co. has entered into a non-binding letter of ...
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