Category: Energy
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Siemens To Supply 12 Direct-drive Wind Turbines To Süderlügum In Schleswig-Holstein
Siemens Energy has secured an order for a total capacity of 36 megawatts (MW) in Nordfriesland. Siemens is to supply twelve direct-drive wind turbines, eleven model SWT-3.0-113 and one model SWT-3.0-101 turbine, for the Süderlügum publicly-operated wind farm. The installation of Süderlügum onshore wind power plant is scheduled for late 2014. The owner has contracted…
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Braderup Energy Storage Facility Comes On Stream
Because wind is by nature intermittent, integrating wind power into power supplies is a challenge. From now on, one of Europe’s largest hybrid batteries will store the electricity generated at a community wind farm in the northern German municipality of Braderup and feed it back into the power grid as needed. Bosch and the community…
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Siemens Successfully Installs Third HVDC Platform In The North Sea For TenneT
Siemens has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2. Working under contract from the German-Dutch grid operator TenneT, Siemens has thus achieved a decisive milestone of the German grid connection projects. “We have now installed three high-tech platforms for TenneT in the North Sea. The HelWin2 project is now in the…
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SSE Renewables Selects GE Turbines For Scottish Wind Farm In The Highlands
Further advancing the growth of renewable energy throughout the United Kingdom, GE today announced that it will supply SSE Renewables with 33 GE 2.85-100 wind turbines for the Dunmaglass Wind Farm, located near Inverness, Scotland. GE specially designed these wind turbines for the project with a 70-meter tower so they meet the associated planning conditions…
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ABB Awarded $400 Million Order For Maritime Link Power Project In Canada
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth approximately $400 million from NSP Maritime Link Inc., a subsidiary of Emera Inc., to supply a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission solution creating the first electricity link between the island of Newfoundland and the North American power grid. The order was…
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Eaton to Showcase Game-Changing Solar Solutions At Intersolar North America 2014
Power management company Eaton will showcase a broad range of critical solutions at Intersolar North America 2014, from July 8-10, in booth #8321, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Eaton’s solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage electrical balance of system (BOS) solutions are making cost-effective, safe and reliable solar generation a reality for utility…
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Rolls-Royce To Supply Power Plant In Myanmar
Rolls-Royce signed a long-term service agreement with RGK+Z&A for spare parts supply, supervision and maintenance for the Hlagwa Power Plant (Phase II) project today. The agreement was signed at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London by Lars Eikeland, President and CEO of Bergen Engines, and Mr Zeya Thura Mon, Group CEO of RGK+Z&A Group…
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Siemens Hits 10-GW Installed Wind Capacity Milestone In The Americas
Siemens Energy has reached the significant milestone of ten gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity in the Americas. Siemens has installed more than 5,600 wind turbines in Canada, the U.S. and in South America, including Peru, Chile and Brazil. This capacity is enough to supply clean, renewable power to approximately three million average households…
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Siemens Enters Wind Market In Belgium
Siemens Energy has secured its first wind power contract in Belgium with an order for the first phase of the Wind aan de Stroom project on the left bank of the Schelde River in Antwerp harbor. This first phase consists of 11 direct-drive wind turbines of the Siemens D3-platform; the project can however be extended…
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NEC provides Shimane Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 With system For Monitoring Signs Of Malfunction
NEC Corporation today announced the delivery of a system for monitoring signs of malfunction in large-scale plants for the Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.’s Shimane Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2. NEC has been working with Chugoku Electric Power to develop a system for detecting signs of facility malfunctions by utilizing enormous amounts of plant data…