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Frost & Sullivan: Commissioning of Large Hydropower Projects in Latin America Fuels Demand for Large Hydro Turbines
The large hydro turbine (LHT) market in Latin America is all set to soar on the back of economic growth in developing countries and use of the hitherto untapped resources of tropical and subtropical rivers. The biggest push for the LHT market will come from Brazil's concerted energy planning and the ongoing construction of large hydropower projects aimed at sustaining the economic and demographic ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Partners with Eaton to Advance Hydropower Generation
Power management company Eaton has announced it is helping advance energy resiliency for the national power grid through a U.S. Department of Energy funded initiative to deploy new hydropower generation at existing non-powered dams and waterways. Under the second stage of the contract awarded in 2017, Eaton will manufacture and test new, low-cost integrated hydropower turbine and generator sets ...
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Aquamarine Power announces additional £6 million of funding
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power announces that it has successfully raised an additional £6 million of funding. This follows the recent unveiling of the design of its Oyster 2 device which will be built in Scotland later this year. This new, next generation 800kW device will deliver 250 per cent more power than the original Oyster 1 with only a 50 per cent increase in footprint. ...
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Solving the World`s Energy Problems - With LEGO
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, September 7, 2007 (ENS) - More than 100,000 middle-school students in 38 countries are poised to create solutions for the energy needs of a growing world population - with robots and LEGO, the snap-together plastic building blocks. An organization called For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, FIRST, Thursday launched its 10th anniversary FIRST ...
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Frost & Sullivan Lauds GE`s Bently Nevada Line for Creating Enhanced Customer Value Through the Development of Sophisticated Condition Monitoring Systems
Based on its recent analysis of the condition monitoring market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes GE's Bently Nevada® product line, a unit of GE Measurement & Control Solutions, with the 2011 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement. The company leverages more than 50 years of experience in condition monitoring to understand the issues of customers in a wide ...
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ANDRITZ to equip two hydropower stations in East Asia
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received contracts from Vietnam and South Korea to supply electromechanical equipment for hydropower stations with a total value of around 65 million euros. VNECO Hoi Xuan Investment and Electricity Construction has awarded ANDRITZ HYDRO an order for the design, delivery, installation, and commissioning of three bulb turbines and ...
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PHI Group`s Chairman and CEO Henry Fahman Speaks at the 4th VietPower Conference
PHI Group (OTCQB: PHIL) (PINKSHEETS: PHIL), a company focused on energy and natural resources, announced today that its Chairman and CEO Henry Fahman will present coal upgrading and breakthrough renewable energy technologies at the 4th VietPower Summit held from September 18-21, 2012 at the Sheraton Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This conference is organized by IBC Asia to bring together ...
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Joi Scientific and New Brunswick Power to Develop World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Distributed Electricity Grid
Joi Scientific, whose mission is to make clean and affordable hydrogen energy available to all, is to co-develop with New Brunswick Power a hydrogen production system to enable the world’s first electricity grid that uses hydrogen as a baseload. The major electric utility in Canada’s Eastern Maritime province, NB Power is re-architecting its operations to create a highly efficient and ...
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Renewable Energy: Opportunities and Mistakes
Robert Leak completed an engineering apprenticeship in 1982 before moving to the Metropolitan Police Service where he progressed to the position of Senior Engineer within their Property Services Department. In 2005 Robert decided to focus on the growing opportunity presented by renewable energy technologies and the opportunity they presented in providing cost effective solutions to businesses ...
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Inspiring the world from Austria
Commercial Counselors from Austria in Asia, Far East and Oceania came to Niederranna to meet up and see the top-of-the-art production of hydropower turbines delivered by GLOBAL Hydro. Thank you for your visit! We are Looking forward to a further good cooperation with the Austrian Commercial ...
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ANDRITZ to equip new hydropower station in Pakistan
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Daelim Lotte Joint Venture to supply the electromechanical equipment, hydraulic steel structures, penstocks, and control systems for the Gulpur hydropower station, Pakistan. Start-up is scheduled for mid-2019. The order value amounts to approximately 65 million euros. ANDRITZ HYDRO is to supply two ...
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ANDRITZ receives order for extension of La Coche pumped storage power station, France
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Electricité de France (EDF) to supply a turbine generator unit with an output of 240 megawatts for the extension of the La Coche pumped storage power station, France. Start-up is scheduled for 2019. The order value amounts to approximately 25 million euros. The new Pelton turbine from ANDRITZ ...
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ANDRITZ to supply water turbines and generators for the new hydropower plant on the River Mur in Grazd
International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Energie Steiermark to supply the electro-mechanical equipment for the new hydropower plant to be built in the Puntigam district of Graz. Commissioning is planned for the first half of 2019. ANDRITZ HYDRO will supply two bulb turbines (capacity: 2 x 9 MW) with a runner diameter of 3,600 mm each, including speed controllers as ...
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Smart grids and renewables to power India`s remote areas
India has begun setting up computerised ‘smart’ mini—grids powered with renewable energy sources to provide electricity in inaccessible areas. India’s ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) this month (1 July) commissioned the country’s first 'renewable energy-based smart mini-grid system' at Gurgaon, outside New Delhi. The computerised electricity ...
By SciDev.Net
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ANDRITZ receives two orders for hydropower plants in Norway and DR Congo
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Eidsiva Vannkraft AS to supply electromechanical equipment for the new Nedre Otta hydropower plant in Norway and from the Government utility SNEL (Société Nationale d’Électricité) for rehabilitation of the existing Mwadingusha hydropower plant in the Democratic Republic of ...
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$5 Billion Africa Plan Launched at Climate Summit
The United Nations and partners launched a $5 billion initiative yesterday to expand renewable energy capacity in Africa. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the climate change conference (COP21) in Paris stating that saving energy is a triple-win in the battle against global warming. “The production and use of energy is responsible for more than half of the world's total greenhouse ...
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Utilizing the Excess Coal-fired Boiler Talent in the U.S.
The U.S. is not building new coal-fired power plants and will be shutting down nearly 70,000 MW of existing power plants. There is uncertainty regarding the remaining 190,000 MW depending on clean power regulations. The result of this shrinkage is a large excess of coal-fired boiler talent in the country. Two options for beneficial use are to channel this talent into: Other types of power ...
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ANDRITZ receives important order for a new pumped storage plant in Portugal
ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH, a member of international technology group ANDRITZ, has been contracted by the Spanish energy utility IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN to supply the electro-mechanical equipment and the penstock for the new pumped storage hydropower plant Gouvães in Portugal. The total contract value for ANDRITZ amounts to about 140 million euros. The scope of delivery comprises design, ...
By Andritz AG
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Global wind could hit 2.1 TW by 2030; Germany pilots wind plus pumped hydro
Global wind energy capacity could reach almost 1.68 TW in a moderate scenario and almost 2.1 TW in an advanced scenario by 2030, supplying up to 20% of global electricity, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)’s Global Wind Energy Outlook report released on October 21. GWEC’s Moderate Scenario reflects a world that maintains the trends from the past decade, with wind ...
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Small Hydro could add up to Big Damage
A belief that small hydropower systems are a source of clean energy with little or no environmental problems is driving the growing interest in mini, micro, and pico hydro systems that generate from less than 5 kilowatts up to 10 megawatts of energy. Hydropower appears to be the cleanest and most versatile of renewable energy sources. But experience shows that optimism about its potential can be ...
By SciDev.Net
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