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Power project management gets real
When asked to picture New Zealand, images of lush, green pastures dotted with sheep, death-defying snow-capped peaks, crystal clear glacial rivers and expansive blue skies all spring to mind.
Wireless M2M technologies: the smart move for smart metering
The continuing adoption of remote meter reading in the European utility industry is going to generate high volumes of wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) connections in the industry.
Pow! Patnow goes supercritical
The Patnow, Adamow, Konin power complex, located some 200 km west of Warsaw, is an important group of power stations in the Polish power market.
The superconducting cable dream finally comes true
The joyous back-slapping at the opening ceremony told its own story – a major milestone in power engineering had been reached.
Carbon capture: From backroomboffins to a household name
Given your more than 30 years’ work in the domain of GHG, you must be delighted that carbon capture & storage (CCS) has come to the forefront of the power industry.
Integrated power solution for aluminium giant in Oman
Sohar Aluminium Company (SAC), in the Sultanate of Oman, is the first aluminium smelter operating with 1650 V DC, and with 360 pots it is the longest potline in the world.
Get your feed water purification right and the rest will follow
The power generation sector throughout Europe is currently operating against a background of rapid political, climatic and demographic change, and is under increasing pressure to reduce operating costs and improve output efficiencies, while meeting the demands of ever more stringent safety and environmental legislation.
How does your turbine blade health measure up?
Within the industry there is a continuous drive towards predictive maintenance, achieved through monitoring the health of plant equipment and machinery.
Latin America: Sharing a vision
A fter a faltering start in the 1990s, co-operation is emerging as a key driver in the power markets of Latin America.
The USA needs a supergrid, and needs one now
By definition it is arguable whether the United States of America is now the only superpower in the world - China and, following more recent events, Russia? Having said that, the USA is still the largest and most technologically powerful global economy.
Fact or fission? Energy security and the case for nuclear power
The term ‘energy security’ is often used, at least in Europe, as a euphemism for ‘not being over reliant on Russian natural gas’.
INTERNATIONAL
South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project has moved a step closer to the construction of a commercial scale power station at Koeberg near Cape Town with the signing of a contract for the provision of engineering, procurement, project and construction management (EPCM) services for the plant.
EUROPE
National Grid, the company responsible for managing the UK’s power network, has outlined plans for a £10bn ($17.9bn) overhaul of the country’s transmission & distribution networks, which will help to support the 35 GW of renewable energy that is expected to come online by 2020.
ASIA-PACIFIC
WorsleyParsons, Australia’s biggest engineering company, has outlined a proposal to build a solar power plant at an as yet unnamed site in Australia, which upon completion will be the world’s biggest solar project.
AMERICAS
Siemens coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-carbon integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant.
COMPANIES
France’s EDF and the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company have created the Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, to construct and operate two European pressurized water reactor nuclear power stations at Taishan, Guangdong.
GensetRoundup
The biogas boom in Germany and Central Europe has started spreading to Eastern European countries like Croatia.
EquipmentRoundup
The new Yokogawa WT500 is a compact bench-top power analyzer, which is ideally suited to the requirements of the alternative energy market.
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