Category: Energy
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Second Power Plant With Siemens H-Class Technology Goes Into Operation In The U.S.A.
Riviera Beach Next Generation Clean Energy Center in Florida began commercial operation on April 1, 2014. Plant operator is Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of America’s leading energy utility NextEra Energy Inc. Siemens supplied three of its SGT6-8000H-gas turbines for the project, each of which delivers an electrical generating capacity of 274…
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ABB Wins $110 Million Order To Strengthen Power Infrastructure In Saudi Arabia
ABB the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $110 million from the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), Saudi Arabia’s national power transmission and distribution operator, to construct substations that will help boost transmission capacity in the country’s western region. The new substations will link the Taif East Governorate, a part…
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First Solar And GE Shape Next-Generation PV Power Plant
First Solar, Inc. and GE’s Power Conversion business are utilizing their recently established technology and commercial partnership to develop a more cost-effective and productive utility-scale PV power plant design that combines First Solar’s thin-film CdTe modules with GE’s new ProSolar 1,500-volt inverter/transformer system. First Solar has integrated new technology into its modules and optimized them…
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GE and Highview Power Sign Global Energy Storage Collaboration Agreement
Seeking a larger role in the energy storage sector, GE Oil & Gas has signed a global licensing and technology collaboration agreement with Highview Power Storage, a U.K supplier of large-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems. The companies will explore opportunities to integrate Highview’s LAES technology in peaker power plants where GE gas turbines…
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Toshiba’s Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems Make Renewable Energy More Practical
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has delivered battery energy storage systems integrating the company’s SCiB™, an innovative lithium-ion secondary battery to Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., for a demonstration project to expand introduction of renewable energy sources on remote islands. The systems have been installed in substations on Tanegashima Island and Amamioshima Island, in…
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GE Launches Advanced Technology Space Frame Tower For Wind Turbines
Today, GE’s renewable energy business announced the introduction of its new space frame tower for multi-megawatt wind turbines at the European Wind Energy Association’s annual conference in Barcelona, Spain. The five-legged enclosed lattice tower from GE enables towers up to 139 meters to be built more cost-effectively in never before accessible locations, using a logistics-friendly…
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Siemens To Exhibit Its Uprated D3-platform Wind Turbine Generators At EWEA 2014
Step by step, Siemens Energy is successfully pursuing its strategy for lowering the costs of wind power. At the European annual event for the wind energy industry, EWEA 2014, being held March 10 to 13 in Barcelona, Siemens Energy’s Wind Power Division is showing how the uprated performance of its state-of-the art direct-drive D3 wind…
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Sunpreme Launches Premium Solar 2.0 Maxima GxB-340W And GxB-280W Bi-facial Solar Modules
Sunpreme, a global growth Company engaged in the business of commercializing its innovative Hybrid Cell Technology (HCT) is launching the Maxima GxB-340W and GxB-280W bi-facial modules. They utilize the third generation embodiment of Sunpreme’s 156mm HCT based PV cells, packaged in frameless, double glass modules, and designed to meet the growing need for high-performance, cost…
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Bosch Supplies Energy Storage System For Pioneering Housing Complex
The move toward alternative forms of energy is taking shape in Kelsterbach, a town close to Frankfurt, Germany. Bosch is supplying a flexible energy storage system for a housing complex that is currently under construction there, which comprises 180 townhouses. The system has an installed capacity of 135 kilowatt-hours. “On paper, this is the equivalent…
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KYOCERA Announces Launch Of Monocrystalline Solar Modules For Residential Use In Japan
Kyocera Corporation today announced its first commercialized monocrystalline silicon solar modules, which it will begin fully supplying for the Japanese residential market in April. In the Japanese residential market, there is strong demand for high-output solar modules in order to generate electricity efficiently on limited rooftop spaces. In an effort to respond to these needs,…