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During Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Other Disasters, Diesel-Powered Backup Generators Keep Nuclear Power Plants, Hospitals and Other Critical Services Up and Running WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Within seconds after Tuesday's massive earthquake led to the shutdown of the North Anna nuclear power plant, three backup diesel generators went to work and provided power to the electrical and reactor cooling systems. ("Power restored to nuclear plant after quake" - CNN) This...
TEL AVIV, Israel, August 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The global warming in recent years showed the major need for green renewable energy. The heavy heat waves, floods, melting icebergs and the many natural disasters that struck all the continents have created a situation that does not allow us continue to produce energy in ways that pollutes the globe and there is an urgent need for implementation of alternative energy production systems. In addition, fuel prices...
NEW CANTON, Va., Aug. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Dominion Virginia Power executives and local officials Friday to dedicate the Bear Garden Power Station, calling the new natural gas-fired station, "an environmentally friendly and economically important" asset for the commonwealth. The governor was one of nearly 100 people who turned out for the formal ribbon-cutting opening of the 590-megawatt, combined-cycle power station in Buckingham County. "Bear Garden...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Arista Power, Inc. ("Arista Power" or the "Company") (OTCBB: ASPW), a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of custom-designed power management systems, renewable energy storage systems, WindTamer wind turbines, and a supplier of solar energy systems, announced today the first installation of a WindTamer wind turbine in Europe. The turbine was installed by UAB WindTamer Europe ("UAB WindTamer" or the "Distributor"), which in April, 2011 obtained...
RENO, Nev., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that it has completed the modification of the 20MW Burdette (Galena1) power plant into an Evaporative Cooling configuration. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20040422/LATH066LOGO) This modification is another step in a multiyear research and development (R&D) program that tested different methods to implement evaporative cooling as well as the associated water treatment solutions....
HOUSTON, Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CTG Universidad is a two-unit combustion turbine plant that was commissioned in late 1970 by the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) on the north side of Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city. By the 1990s, the two 14-MW turbines were obsolete, used sparingly, and slated for demolition in 2010. However, by 2002, portions of Monterrey, a major industrial center, began experiencing power restrictions caused by a lack of sufficient reactive power...
800 kW Waste Heat Recovery System in Development in Greenville, NC LAKE FOREST, Ill., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- KGRA Energy LP, a premier U.S.-based waste heat recovery developer, announced today that civil engineering has begun and equipment delivery continues on an innovative clean energy system being installed at a Greenville, NC area mill owned by Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY), one of the world's largest forest products companies. The project, developed by KGRA Energy, in...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its Thermal Equipment and Services segment has been awarded a contract worth approximately $17 million from the China Datang Technologies & Engineering Co. to manufacture and install an indirect dry cooling tower (IDCT) system for the DatangWu'an power plant. The DatangWu'an facility is a 2x300 MW coal-fired power plant in the Hebei Province of Eastern China. The two-unit IDCT system is...
Average Additional Annual Cost Increase Could Exceed $250 Per Consumer Household ATLANTA, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If Plant Washington, the controversial Power4Georgians (P4G) proposed coal-fired power plant becomes a reality, Georgia consumers would see their electric bills skyrocket 10-20 percent in the first year depending on which electric member cooperative (EMC) they receive electricity from, as opposed to an expected 2 percent increase in the absence of the plant....
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cemtrex Inc. (OTC: CTEI) announced today that it has successfully completed an installation of boiler combustion efficiency monitors at Westar Energy's coal-fired Jeffrey Energy center power plant, on boilers supplied by Foster Wheeler North America Corporation. The Cemtrex monitors installed at twelve locations in the plant are multiplexed CEM (Continuous Emissions Monitoring) systems that monitor the boiler exhaust, optimize combustion fuel...
