SunShare Launches 10 MWs of Community Solar Gardens in Colorado
WATKINS, Colo. – SunShare, a leading community solar developer, announced the launch of the Imboden Solar Project with a solar panel-raising event that took place recently in Watkins, Colorado. The celebration featured U.S. Representative and Colorado gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis along with numerous representatives from the Colorado solar industry including the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, Coalition for Community Solar Access, GRID Alternatives, and Xcel Energy. “I am...
How much water is used to fulfill the energy needs of the US?
Study analyzes how much water is used by oil, coal, natural gas, wind and other energy sources To generate the energy delivered to each home, business and industrial entity in the United States each year, trillions of gallons of water are required for energy production, processing, conversion and transport. However, the exact amount of water withdrawn from the environment and consumed for each energy source has never been quantified – until now. For each of the various energy sources,...
APAC Will Continue to Lead Global Steam Turbine Market Through 2022, Says GlobalData
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will continue to hold its top position in the global steam turbine market, which is expected to reach a market value of $8.95bn in 2022, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData. APAC was the largest market for steam turbines in 2017 registering 73.2% of the global market share. Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) was the second-largest market, with 17.5% share, followed by the Americas with 9.3%. The company’s latest report ‘Steam Turbin...
Energy Security Partners Secures Funding for GTLA's Front End Engineering & Design
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Energy Security Partners (ESP), an independent developer of major gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects, has secured funding to complete Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) and related development activities for the GTL Americas (GTLA) Project near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The GTL facility is expected to produce 33,000 barrels per day of ultra-clean transportation fuels from natural gas, with an anticipated capital cost of approximately $3.5 billion. Major GTL facilities are in operat...
Western Electric Co-ops Increasingly Able to Deliver Savings by Integrating Renewable Energy
BOULDER, COLO. Aug. 23, 2018, — Declines in renewable energy pricing are creating opportunities for electric cooperatives in the U.S. Mountain West to deliver cost savings to their members, and simultaneously creating risks for those utilities that are slower to transition to these technologies, according to a new study from Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). To illustrate the importance of this broad regional trend, RMI produced a case study of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Associa...
Wärtsilä to Help Ensure Reliable Power Supply in Challenging Hawaii Conditions Through Smart Technologies
Clean, secure, and uninterrupted power is at the core of Hawaiian Electric’s 50-megawatt Schofield Generating Station. Wärtsilä has signed a Maintenance and Operational advisory agreement for the power plant, located on the island of Oahu, 40 kilometres from Honolulu. The agreement will help the utility to maximize the availability and efficiency of the power plant. Wärtsilä, for the duration of the 10-year agreement, will provide advisory and maintenance services that help ensure reliable po...
Thermaldyne to Open West Baton Rouge Plant in 2018
BATON ROUGE, La., August 20, 2018 - Thermaldyne CEO Randall Tolbert today announced that the environmental solutions company has made a $50 million investment in West Baton Rouge which will allow Thermaldyne to open the plant in late 2018. The project will bring 75 new jobs with an average salary of $80k, plus benefits. The project has expanded in both capital investment and job creation. The reclamation plant will afford an in-state option for Louisiana oil companies for management of their...
Last Ever Polish Coal Block to be Built in Ostrałęka as President Duda Commits to EU Target of 15% Energy Consumption from Renewables by 2020
August 20, 2018. The biggest European polluter is now officially committed to EU’s renewable targets, marking an important first step in moving away from coal-based energy. In June 2018, Polish President, Andrzej Duda, signed an amendment to the country’s renewable sources of energy law in order to help the country meet the European Union’s 2020 renewable energy targets. When elected in 2015, Poland’s then-newly-elected Law and Justice party (PiS) pledged to sustain the country’s long-st...
Wärtsilä to Help Ensure Reliable Power Supply in Challenging Hawaii Conditions Through Smart Technologies
Clean, secure, and uninterrupted power is at the core of Hawaiian Electric’s 50-megawatt Schofield Generating Station. Wärtsilä has signed a Maintenance and Operational advisory agreement for the power plant, located on the island of Oahu, 40 kilometres from Honolulu. The agreement will help the utility to maximize the availability and efficiency of the power plant. Wärtsilä, for the duration of the 10-year agreement, will provide advisory and maintenance services that help ensure reliable po...
Sanjeev Gupta to Build 280MW Solar Farm in South Australia
Details of a 280MW solar farm have been unveiled in South Australia as the first part of Sanjeev Gupta’s global GFG Alliance US$1 billion, one‐gigawatt dispatchable renewable energy program. The Cultana Solar Project in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf will include 780,000 solar panels capable of generating 600GWh of energy generation per year, enough to power 96,000 homes while offsetting 492,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. Construction is expected to begin in early 2019....
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