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Clarke Energy features on 2 French TV Programmes
Didier Lartigue, a Main Board Director of Clarke Energy has featured on a regional TV programme in France. This programme highlights some of the applications where gas engine technology can be used. These include: Landfill gas and biogas, where gas engines are used to generate renewable base-load power Cogeneration– High efficiency utilisation of natural gas to deliver onsite ...
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Prince Charles Visits Biogen Gwyriad
His Royal Highness The Price of Wales has visited Biogen’s GwyriAD anaerobic digestion plant in Wales. The site is located in at Llwyn Isaf near Caernafon and has been developed by Biogen with funding from Iona Capital. Prince Charles visited the facility on the 2nd of July. The facility produces biogas, a renewable fuel, which is used in a combined heat and power engine facility that is ...
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AFC Energy and De Nora for longevity of electrodes
Adam Bond, CEO, said:” The ability to deliver this extended operational lifetime in our electrodes is the critical factor in reducing the levelized cost of power. This would be an incredible outcome not only for AFC Energy, but for the fuel cell industry and the wider hydrogen economy, and will put our technology on a comparable footing with other low carbon, base load power generation ...
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Maamba Collieries in Zambia sets record straight on load-shedding
Maamba Collieries in Zambia needs ZESCO to clear outstanding debts owed to the company so it can maintain efficient operations at its 300 MW coal-fired power plant. Due to a continued shortfall in monthly payments of its power bills by ZESCO, Maamba Collieries (MCL) has not been able to keep up a robust maintenance programme at its modern eco-friendly thermal power plant - which has been ...
By VUKA Group
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Long-term Power Reliability Arrives in Alice Springs
The much-anticipated arrival of ten new GE’s Jenbacher power generation engines at Territory Generation’s Owen Springs Power Station this week heralds a new era for power reliability in the region. The project is part of an electricity cost reduction drive, spearheaded by the Northern Territory Government of Australia. The new high-efficiency natural gas-fired units will provide ...
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Ormat Technologies commences operation of 36 MW Geothermal Power Plant in Kenya
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that it reached commercial operation of Plant 2 in the Olkaria III complex in Naivasha, Kenya, increasing the company’s total generating capacity by 36 MW to 611 MW worldwide. Ormat also plans to add an additional 16 MW of generation at Olkaria III by building a third plant, which it expects to complete in 2014. Once Plant 3 is complete, ...
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Ormat Technologies, Inc. to develop a geothermal project in Honduras
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that an Ormat subsidiary entered into an agreement with Geotérmica Platanares to acquire a late stage development geothermal project in Honduras. The project comprises of the rights to a field where exploration work has been conducted in the past and a Power Purchase Agreement for up to 35MW with the national utility of Honduras, ENEE. ...
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Ormat Extends PPA for its Zunil Power Plant in Guatemala by Additional 15 Years
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today its indirect, wholly owned subsidiary signed an amendment to the power purchase agreement (PPA) with Instituto Nacional de Electrificacion (INDE) for its Zunil geothermal power plant in Guatemala. The amendment extends the term of the PPA from 2019 to 2034. The PPA amendment also transfers operation and management responsibilities of the Zunil ...
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ZeroPoint Clean Tech Powers European Grid Produces Carbon-Negative Heat and Power
ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) today announced that its biomass gasification solution produced carbon negative heat and power for the last half-month of its 2011 operations in Germany. The carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with multiple uses in agriculture and ...
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Bord na Móna’s Drehid Landfill Gas Power Plant Officially Opened
Following Clarke Energy announcing the award of the contract for Bord na Móna’s Drehidlandfill gas power plant the facility was officially opened on the 7th April 2014. The Irish Minister of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, was there to formally inaugurate the project at the landfill site. The Irish Drehid landfill facility opened in 2008 to manage up to ...
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Siemens to build cogeneration plant in Berlin
Siemens has received an order to build a new cogeneration plant in the Marzahn district of Berlin. The company will act as general contractor for the energy utility company Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG to erect this natural-gas fired combined-cycle power plant with district heat extraction. The centerpiece of the plant will be its gas turbine, which will be manufactured at Siemens' gas turbine ...
By Siemens AG
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WM expands renewable energy program to develop landfill gas-to-energy project
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WMI) has announced that it plans to use its expertise as the nation’s largest developer of landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) projects to partner with private and municipal landfill owners to develop the country’s untapped landfill gas resources. Waste Management is the first in the waste management industry to launch such a program. Waste Management’s third-party LFGTE ...
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WM expands renewable energy program
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WMI) has announced that it plans to use its expertise as the nation’s largest developer of landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) projects to partner with private and municipal landfill owners to develop the country’s untapped landfill gas resources. Waste Management is the first in the waste management industry to launch such a program. Waste Management’s third-party LFGTE ...
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B&W Calls on U.S. EPA to Limit Methane Emissions From Landfills
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) has provided formal comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed emissions rules for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, calling for more stringent limits on emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that plays a role in climate change. Methane, which is generated in landfills by the decomposition of organic ...
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Energy ministers of the G7 Group officially inaugurate Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm
Today (May 08, 2015) the Nordsee Ost wind farm will be officially inaugurated on the occasion of the meeting of the G7 Energy Ministers in Hamburg. The inauguration will be attended by the German Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel, and his fellow ministers from the G7 states, as well as Peter Terium, CEO of RWE AG, Hans Bünting, CEO of RWE Innogy, and Mel Kroon, CEO of Tennet. With an ...
By RWE AG
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X-energy Teams with NFI to Supply Exclusive Fuel to the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) in Japan
X-energy announced it has teamed with Nuclear Fuel Industries (NFI) to be the exclusive counterparty to supply fuel to the Japanese high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR). X-energy is purchasing the compact press equipment that can make annular fuel compacts for the “prism-type” HTGR core from Japanese-based NFI. X-energy will use the TRISO-X fuel facility and the former NFI ...
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Ormat Technologies Announces Financial Closing and First Drawdown on Long-Term Debt Financing for the Expansion of Olkaria III Geothermal Power Complex in Kenya
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that OrPower 4, Inc., its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, has completed the financial closing of a previously announced limited-recourse project financing totaling up to $310 million for the Olkaria III geothermal power complex located in Naivasha, Kenya, with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), an agency of the United ...
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Ener-Core Completing Construction of Multi-Fuel Test Facility
Facility to Test and Verify Performance of Expected Large-Scale Power Oxidizers Anticipated to Improve Time to Market and Accelerate Sales Cycle Ener-Core, Inc. (OTCQB:ENCR), the world’s only provider of Power Oxidation technology and equipment that generates clean power from low-quality and waste gases from a wide variety of industries, is completing construction of a Multi-Fuel Test ...
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INNIO Jenbacher and Clarke Energy Announce Expansion of Jenbacher Gas Engines Distribution to Independent and Merchant Power Producers in Indonesia
Clarke Energy can also offer Jenbacher natural gas engines with a “Ready for H2” option that allows the engines the capability to be readily converted from natural gas to up to 100% hydrogen operation. Clarke Energy now distributing Jenbacher gas engines across 28 countries Offerings to focus on natural gas applications To better serve the growing power and grid reliability ...
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Glad tidings for sea power potential
Two countries with the highest tides in the world, Canada and the UK, both claim to be the world leaders in creating electricity from the tides. They are among a group of coastal states − including China, South Korea, the US and Australia − that are hoping to harness the enormous power of their local twice-daily tides to tap a new and reliable supply of electricity. Unlike wind ...
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