Atlas Copco to Acquire Pump Rental Business in Brazil
Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has agreed to acquire Itubombas Locação Comércio Importação e Exportação Ltda, a pump rental company in the Brazilian market. Itubombas is based in Itu in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The company rents out diesel and electric driven centrifugal pumps to professional customers in the oil and gas, construction and mining sectors in Brazil. Itubombas has about 40 employees and had revenues of about MBR...
Governor Wolf Announces Opening of First of 29 Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Stations Under Public Private Partnership
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today announced the opening of the first of 29 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations planned as part of a Public Private Partnership. PennDOT Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Toby Fauver and P-3 Office Director Mike Bonini joined officials from Trillium CNG, Cam Tran, and state and local officials in Johnstown today to mark opening of the facility. "This innovative P3 is allowing us to help transit agencies save money and take advantage of plentifu...
Swedish Forerunner Climeon Part of International Clean Tech Hub in San Francisco
Today, on Tuesday April the 18th, the Swedish minister Isabella Lövin inaugurates a Swedish cleantech hub in San Fransisco. The Cleantech hub is initiated by the Swedish Energy agency together with Business Sweden with the ambition to help Swedish innovative cleantech companies on the international market through consulting and networking. Climeon is one of the companies participating in the initiative and sees great opportunities with the Cleantech hub. “-It is very encouraging to have co...
NARUC Establishes Natural Gas Access and Expansion Task Force
Washington—National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners President Robert F. Powelson and its Executive Committee have established a new Presidential Natural Gas Access and Expansion Task Force. Pennsylvania Commissioner John Coleman and Mississippi Commissioner Brandon Presley have been appointed as co-chairs, with North Dakota Commissioner Julie Fedorchak serving as vice-chair. The task force will be charged with developing best practices and recommendations regarding natural gas se...
Asia-Pacific Region Provides Best Opportunities in Declining Global Gas Turbine Market, Says GlobalData
The global gas turbine market is set to fall from $8.49 billion in 2016 to around $7.73 billion by 2021, representing a negative compound annual growth rate of 1.87%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest report states that global economic recession and the decrease in the price of gas turbines has heavily impacted market value, with a large number of projects being cancelled or postponed, and widespread delays in maintenance projects. Gas turbine companie...
Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Publishes Wind Operating Practices Guidebook
RESTON, VA – April 11, 2017 – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced today it has published the Wind Operating Practices Guidebook (OPG). The guidebook is the industry’s first and authored by actual wind turbine and wind plant operating professionals. The OPG is a principle-based document written by UVIG’s Operations & Maintenance User Group. It focuses on principles, processes and best practices; not work instructions and practices. “Wind in the U.S. has grown t...
ONEgas Appoints Jacobs for Platform Decomplexing Project in North Sea
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) received a contract from ONEgas to perform engineering services for the decomplexing of its K15-FA platform in the North Sea. ONEgas is a combined business unit of Shell UK Exploration & Production (Shell) and the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM). The contract is the first to be signed under a new Enterprise Framework Agreement between ONEgas and Jacobs. The decomplexing process involves transitioning K15-FA to an unmanned platform...
2016 a Record Year for Renewables, Latest IRENA Data Reveals
Abu Dhabi, UAE, 30 March 2017 — Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable Energy Capacity Statistics 2017, estimates that by the end of last year the world’s renewable generation capacity reached 2,006 GW, with solar energy showing particularly strong growth. “We are witnessing an energy transform...
The Evolution of Solar Power
Global expansion of solar PV has been following an exponential curve for more than two decades, going as far as doubling over the past two years. Safe to say, solar power has a very bright future, but let's see what its evolution looks like on the world map. Greenbyte, maker of wind and solar asset management software Breeze and Bright, has just released an interactive map showing the cumulative installed solar power capacity per country, continent and the world between 1992-2015. The Evoluti...
CHAMPS GPO and IGS Energy Relaunch Contract for Natural Gas and Electricity
CHAMPS Group Purchasing and IGS Energy relaunched their contract for natural gas and electricity. The service area for natural gas expands outside of Ohio to include California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia and for electricity, Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The three-year contract expires Oct. 31, 2019. “IGS Energy first became a CHAMPS GPO contract vendor in 1998 and while the energy marketplace has changed tremendously, IGS’ commitment to CHAMPS an...
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