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Maxim Power Corp. announces purchase of generation equipment
Maxim Power Corp. ("MAXIM" or the "Corporation") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Milner Power Inc., has closed an agreement to purchase a General Electric Frame 7 F-Class combustion turbine generator ("CT") and certain related equipment for $20.3 million. This equipment was previously delivered new to the seller in 2012 and never installed. The purchase pr ice will be funded ...
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Innovative Steam Technologies (IST) Selects EmeraChem to Supply Catalyst for Municipal Power and Light Georgia Sullivan Power Plant
INNOVATIVE STEAM TECHNOLOGIES has selected EmeraChem, LLC to supply two catalyst systems for installation at the George Sullivan Power Plant project in Anchorage, Alaska. The expansion to the 1970’s era George Sullivan Power Plant is expected to be completed by the summer of 2016. Municipal Light & Power anticipates the expansion to be one of the world’s most energy-efficient, ...
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Vogt Power International selects Johnson Matthey Oxidation Catalyst for gas turbine
Johnson Matthey’s Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) Division announced that it will supply oxidation catalyst to Vogt Power International Inc. (VPI), a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., to control emissions from a combustion turbine installed at the Orlando Utilities Commission Curtis H. Stanton Energy Center at Orlando, FL. The project is a joint venture of Orlando Utilities and Southern Power, ...
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EPA Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Permit for Victoria Power Station Expansion
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Victoria WLE to expand the Victoria Power Station. The expansion will allow the Victoria County, Texas, facility to add equipment and capacity to its combined-cycle electricity generating unit. “Texas continues to play a key role in our ...
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Two Ethanol Facilities Win Energy Star Awards for Exceptional Energy Savings
Two ethanol facilities in the Midwest are being recognized for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions equaling the amount of pollution from almost 6,000 cars annually. Energy Star awards will be given to these facilities at the 23rd Annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop and Expo in St. Louis, Mo. EPA will award ethanol facilities in Missouri and Illinois for using ...
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PJM monitor recommends capacity market changes
The PJM Interconnection’s independent market monitor says in a new report that PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets produced competitive results through the first nine months of 2016, but recommended new changes to enhance competitiveness and efficiency. The report, released by PJM’s Independent Market Monitor Monitoring Analytics, found that energy market ...
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Duke Energy´s fleet modernization allows two coal plants to retire early
Duke Energy's (NYSE: DUK) Buck and Riverbend steam stations, coal-fired power plants in the Charlotte area, will retire two years earlier than scheduled, drawing to a close more than eight decades of operations at each facility. Both stations had been slated for retirement in April 2015in advance of upcoming federal environmental regulations; however, the company elected to retire Buck Units 5 ...
By Duke Energy
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Johnson Matthey to supply oxidation catalyst for new gas turbines at Nevada electric generating station
Johnson Matthey’s Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) Division announced that it will supply oxidation catalyst to Vogt Power International Inc. (VPI), a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., to control emissions from two combustion gas turbines being installed at the new NV Energy Harry Allen Electric Generating Station 25 miles north of Las Vegas. The combined cycle facility will produce 484 ...
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Largest Natural Gas Power Project in South America to Meet Growing Energy Demand
Black & Veatch has been selected as owner’s engineer by Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe (CELSE) for a 1,516 megawatt combined cycle power project in northeastern Brazil. The Porto de Sergipe plant will meet growing electricity demand and supplement hydropower supplies during dry weather seasons. It will be the largest natural gas power station in South America. As owner’s ...
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Progress Energy Carolinas announces accelerated coal plant closings
Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), will accelerate the retirement of one North Carolina coal-fired power plant previously slated for closing in 2013, and will retire the utility's only coal-fired unit in South Carolina. The company announced today that the 316-megawatt (MW) Cape Fear coal-fired plant, located near Moncure, N.C., and the 177-MW H.B. Robinson Unit ...
By Duke Energy
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Duke Energy to Build Nation's First End-to-End Green Hydrogen Combustion Turbine System
Duke Energy this week (Oct 27) announced it soon will break ground in DeBary, Fla., on the first demonstration project in the United States to successfully create clean energy using an end-to-end system to produce, store and combust 100% green hydrogen. The innovative system is the result of collaboration between Duke Energy, Sargent and Lundy, and GE Vernova and will be located at Duke Energy ...
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TVA Replacing Natural Gas Units, Supports Solar Growth
The nation's largest public power utility continued its path to a cleaner energy future as the Tennessee Valley Authority completed its environmental review and is moving forward with building new lower-emission, natural gas-fueled combustion turbines at shuttered coal plants in Tuscumbia, Alabama and Paradise, Kentucky. The new units will replace capacity from retiring CT units elsewhere on the ...
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Siemens Energy Wins Its First Black-Start Battery Storage Project for Power Generation in the U.S.
Siemens Energy announced this week that it will design, build and commission a black-start system at Clearway's Marsh Landing Generating Station near Antioch, California. Black-start capabilities will allow the station to restart the flow of electricity to the facility's auxiliary systems without the support of an external power supply in the case of an outage or blackout situation. Siemens ...
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Burns & McDonnell Completes Engineering Design and Construction Management for First Phase of On-Site Power Facility Serving the Massive Texas Medical Center
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Burns & McDonnell has completed engineering design and construction management for the first phase of a $330 million upgrade of Thermal Energy Corporation’s district energy system serving the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Thermal Energy Corporation (TECO) hosted a dedication ceremony on Tuesday, August 24, celebrating formal commissioning of a new Combined Heat ...
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Neste Oil and Lufthansa satisfied with results of renewable aviation fuel trial
Neste Oil CorporationPress release15 March 2012 at 2 pm (EET) Neste Oil and Lufthansa satisfied with results of renewable aviation fuel trial Neste Oil and Lufthansa tested Neste Oil's NExBTL renewable aviation fuel on a total of 1,187 flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg last year and one intercontinental flight between Frankfurt and Washington D.C. this year. Factors such as fuel quality, ...
By Neste
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Solar Turbines Partners with Chevron on Hydrogen-fueled Gas Turbine Engine
Chevron and Caterpillar-owned Solar Turbines are working together to adapt a low-emissions turbine engine partially fueled by hydrogen. Blending hydrogen with traditional fuels to power the engine could help reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Results from the collaboration could inform the potential of lower carbon turbine intensity operations in the future. “We believe this ...
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DOE signs cooperative agreement for new hydrogen power plant
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif. The new plant is a step toward commercialization of a clean technology that enables use of our country’s vast fossil energy resources while ...
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Progress Energy Carolinas to retire two coal-fired power plants Oct. 1
As announced in July, Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), on Oct. 1 will officially retire two coal-fired power plants, including the utility's first coal-fueled facility built in 1923. The utility will close the Cape Fear power plant, near Moncure, N.C., and the H.B. Robinson Unit 1 power plant, near Hartsville, S.C., as part of its ongoing fleet-modernization ...
By Duke Energy
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North America industrial wastewater series—Power generation industry
Equipment for Cooling Tower, Boiler Blowdown, and FGD Purge Streams to Optimize Water Use The power generation industry is the most water-intensive industry in North America. The droughts that some US states have faced present critical challenges for this industry. Facilities must now consider ways of lowering water consumption while ensuring that wastewater meets EPA regulations. This market ...
By ReportLinker
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Duke Energy Anticipates Ohio Coal Plant Retirement
Duke Energy Ohio (NYSE: DUK) anticipates it will retire all six coal-fired generation units at its W.C. Beckjord Station, southwest of Cincinnati, by Jan. 1, 2015, as a result of a proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule. Duke Energy Ohio announced its intent to retire Beckjord Station's coal-fired units 1 through 6 – totaling 862 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity ...
By Duke Energy
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