AWE and Queen’s University Belfast Finish WaveRoller Tank Tests
AW-Energy and Queen's University Belfast joined forces in 2017 on a half-a-year collaboration to develop the WaveRoller solution further. The project, which ended in January 2018, concentrated on recording the loads of different WaveRoller components, mainly the foundation and the panel. - The main purpose of the tests was to understand the extreme loads better and compare them to the ones used in the design, says AW-Energy Marine Engineer Matti Vuorinen. The tests covered a wide...
Upward Trend Of Natural Gas Production Could Benefit Consumers, Manufacturers
Natural gas production in the U.S. is projected to break the domestic record in 2018, and again in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). These increases, continuing a trend of the past decade, have been driven by an explosion in shale gas production, the EIA reports. And with supply remaining high, reports say natural gas prices nationally are expected to remain steady in upcoming months. While consumers could continue to benefit in coming years, the afforda...
Hawaiian Electric Company, U.S. Navy and REC Solar Break Ground on New Solar Farm in O’ahu
Today, REC Solar, a Duke Energy-owned company and leading provider of commercial, public sector and utility-scale solar solutions and Hawaiian Electric Company, a national leader of renewable energy in Hawai’i, broke ground on a 20-megawatt (MW), fixed-tilt solar facility, located at the U.S. Navy’s Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex. Once completed, the West Loch solar farm will produce the lowest-cost renewable energy in the state at less than 8 cents per kilowatt-hour. REC Sola...
EIA Releases April’s U.S. Short-Term Energy Forecast and 2018 Summer Fuels Outlook
Dr. Linda Capuano, Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, issued the following comments on EIA’s April 2018 Short-Term Energy Outlook and the 2018 Summer Fuels Outlook, which was released on Tuesday: The full STEO can be downloaded at: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/ Forecast Highlights Global Liquid Fuels For the 2018 April–September summer driving season, EIA forecasts U.S. regular gasoline retail prices to average $2.74/gallon (gal...
US-based Longroad Energy Selects Greenbyte for Data Management
Longroad Energy has selected Greenbyte to support their O&M, Asset Management and Remote Monitoring of 1.2 GW of wind and solar projects across the US. By bringing a modern, technology-agnostic approach to wind and solar data management, Greenbyte is a key partner to Longroad. The Greenbyte services, Bright for solar plant management and Breeze for wind farm management, are being used by Longroad in their remote operations center and by project stakeholders to monitor plant performance and...
The Evolution of Wind Power in 2017
The Evolution of Wind Power is the result of a cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and renewable energy software company Greenbyte. The interactive map reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, continent and the world between 1981-2018. Let’s take a closer look at the figures and see what has happened in the past twelve months. China continues its incredible growth and has added an additional 19,500 MW of fresh wind in 2017. With 188,232 MW installed capacit...
Exel Composites and CNIM Collaborate on Glass Fibre Components for World's Most Ambitious Fusion Project
Global pultrusion company Exel Composites is collaborating with French industrial contractor CNIM on the manufacture of fiberglass components for the magnet support structure of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest experimental fusion facility. To satisfy the stringent quality demands for the pre-compression rings, Exel Composites successfully solved the challenge of producing defect-free pultruded profiles of around 3 km in length. The €18 billion...
Wärtsilä Delivers World’s Largest Solar Hybrid Power Plant, Reducing Annual CO2 Emissions by as Much as 18,500 Tons
The technology group Wärtsilä today announced that it has delivered the world’s largest solar hybrid power plant. Wärtsilä will provide a reliable and sustainable supply of round-the-clock energy which is essential in operating the off-grid gold mine and demonstrate the enormous potential of integrating renewables as the baseload electricity. Wärtsilä was selected by the global renewable energy independent power producer Total Eren SA and African Energy Management Platform (AEMP) to build a 1...
Tottenham Hotspur Selects Schneider Electric as Stadium Energy Management Supplier
London (U.K.) - Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has secured a long-term supplier contract with Tottenham Hotspur (‘Spurs’) to become the Official Stadium Management Supplier to the Club’s new state-of-the-art stadium in North London. Working closely with Spurs and its partners during the construction, service and maintenance phases of the project, Schneider Electric will distribute all power supply to the stadium and integrate...
Fairbanks Morse Delivers PoweReliability-as-a-Service Solution in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Fairbanks Morse - an EnPro Industries company (NYSE: NPO) and leading provider of solutions that are powering the world forward - announced today that it has delivered its PoweReliability-as-a-Service platform to a Fortune 500 company in Puerto Rico. The installation provides a dual fuel combined heat and power (CHP) microgrid with approximately 10 megawatts of capacity. The PoweReliability-as-a-Service offering will be installed with advanced software and condition-based...