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Burns & McDonnell Wins Engineer/Procure/Construct Contract from Denton, Texas, for a New 225 MW Fast-Start Power Facility

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 7, 2016 -- The City of Denton, Texas, has awarded a contract to Burns McDonnell for comprehensive engineer/procure/construct (EPC) services for the new 225 megawatt (MW) Denton Energy Center. The new natural gas-fired power facility will feature reciprocating engine technology configured to provide flexible, fast-start power to Denton Municipal Electric Utilities as the...

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WEG Supplies a Complete Electrical Balance of Plant (eBOP) for Brazil's Largest Wind Farm
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WEG Supplies a Complete Electrical Balance of Plant (eBOP) for Brazil's Largest Wind Farm

The new wind farm will have a rated capacity of 230 MVA, and will generate enough energy to supply 400,000 homes, equivalent to a city with over one million people. WEG recently announced the supply of an electrical BOP for a Wind Farm, in Santa Vitoria do Palmar, state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. Already known as the largest wind farm complex in Latin America, the region was...

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Siemens to Provide Long-term Service for New Panda Hummel Station Power Plant in U.S.

Siemens has been awarded a 23-year long-term service and maintenance agreement for the upcoming Panda Hummel Station, a 1,124 megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania. The customer is Panda Power Funds, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The new agreement includes coverage of scheduled maintenance activities, program management, and parts for the plant’s three SGT6-5000F gas...

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Power Plant Platform meets data-driven, secure power demands.

Digital Power Plant creates- virtual Digital Twin of entire industrial power plant complex. Powered by Predix platform, Digital Twin comprises physics-based methods and digital technologies used to model present state of every asset in- Digital Power Plant or a Digital Wind Farm. This technology lets utilities monitor and manage every aspect of the power generation ecosystem to generate...

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Waterfall Security's Unidirectional Security Gateways Deployed to Safeguard Leading Asia-Pacific Power Distribution Company

NEW YORK- — Waterfall Security Solutions (Waterfall Security) announced today the successful deployment of Waterfall's stronger-than-firewalls Unidirectional Security Gateways at a leading energy distributor in the Asia-Pacific region, together with Power Automation (PA), Singapore. Waterfall Security is the leading provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways for industrial control networks...

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Siemens Secures Service Contract Eextensions for Two Power Plants in Pennsylvania, USA

Talen Energy Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has awarded Siemens long-term service contract extensions for the Lower Mount Bethel and Ironwood combined-cycle gas power plants in Pennsylvania (PA), USA. In addition to extending the parts and services contracts, the new agreements also feature a number of solutions and contractual enhancements designed to improve the...

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Danish Firm Signs Licensing Deal with U.S. Wind-Power Developer
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Danish Firm Signs Licensing Deal with U.S. Wind-Power Developer

SheerWind's wind funnel technology will have first pilot project in Denmark later this year MINNEAPOLIS - SheerWind Inc., a Chaska, Minnesota, USA based developer of wind-power systems, has signed a licensing agreement that will allow its technology to be marketed and deployed in Denmark. The agreement will enable wind-power developer E-Venturi to introduce SheerWind's INVELOX wind delivery...

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Machinists Inc. Makes Critical Repairs on 1920s Era Hydro Dam
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Machinists Inc. Makes Critical Repairs on 1920s Era Hydro Dam

In Alaska, there is a hydro plant that supplies power to the city of Ketchikan. Built in the 1920s, the components in the power generating system were in need of repair. Machinists Inc. was contacted about helping to fix these components. As you can imagine, repairing such an old unit was a particular challenge. Sure there were some schematics, but that did not help much. We have some 1920s...

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ABB Commissions HVDC Station Upgrade for Canadian Interconnection

Extended lifetime provided for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) back-to-back station Zurich, Switzerland – ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has successfully commissioned the upgraded 42-year-old Eel River HVDC back-to-back station in New Brunswick, Canada. This upgraded link, which was handed over to customer NB Power, secures a reliable power exchange between the New...

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