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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its SPX Heat Transfer Inc. subsidiary has completed an acquisition of substantially all the assets and certain liabilities of Yuba Heat Transfer LLC ("Yuba"), a leading global supplier of heat transfer equipment utilized by nuclear, solar, geothermal, gas and coal power generation facilities. The purchase price was approximately $125 million. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the company's feedwater...
ATLANTA, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mirant (NYSE: MIR) won the Engineering Project of the Year at the 2009 Platts Global Energy Awards for the company's innovative approach to improving air quality at its Potomac River Generating Station in Alexandria, Virginia. Mirant conceived of a "virtual stack" to address limitations in the original design of the station which was constructed in the late 1940s. The station was built with unusually short stacks because it is in the flight path to...
$12 Million in Recovery Act Funds Leverages $15.7 Million for Nine Combined Heat, Power Projects HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nine new large-scale heat and power projects announced today by Governor Edward G. Rendell will create enough energy to power 180,000 homes for one year and slash carbon dioxide emissions equal to 180,000 passenger vehicles while creating jobs and stabilizing power distribution networks. The combined heat and power, or CHP, projects will receive...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Ausra, Inc., a provider of large-scale, concentrated solar thermal steam generators for electricity generation and industrial processes, has named Craig A. Smith as Vice President of U.S. Sales. Smith joins Ausra with 16 years of achievement in the energy industry, bringing in-depth experience in power boiler sales, procurement, and equipment design for power generation and industrial steam customers. "Craig's engineering background and power...
FREDERICIA, Denmark, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Inbicon A/S today announced the signing of a multi-party Memo of Understanding to pursue the licensing, development, and construction of a biomass refinery in North Dakota. Inbicon's new collaborators are Otoka Energy, a U.S. developer of renewable energy projects, and Great River Energy, a Minnesota electric generation and transmission cooperative. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091130/PH17698) As now envisioned, says Inbicon CEO...
NEW YORK, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Nuclear Turbine Generator Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2015 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0165526/Global-Nuclear-Turbine-Generator-Market-Analysis-and-Forecasts-to-2015.html Global Nuclear Turbine Generator Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2015 Summary "Global Nuclear Turbine Generator Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2015" is the latest report from The....
GRANITE FALLS, Minn., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Fagen, Inc. of Granite Falls, Minn., has reached an agreement with wholesale energy supplier Southern Power for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, Texas. The Nacogdoches Generating Facility is the largest single boiler biomass project in the United States. Southern Power, the subsidiary of Southern Company that acquires, builds, manages and owns wholesale generation assets, acquired...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its SPX Heat Transfer Inc. subsidiary has entered into a definitive agreement with Connell Limited Partnership and Yuba Heat Transfer LLC ("Yuba") to acquire substantially all the assets and certain liabilities of Yuba, a leading global supplier of heat transfer equipment and related technology for the power generation industry. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but completion...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquatech has been awarded a contract to design and supply a Multiple Effect Distillation (MED) seawater desalination system for the Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant in Egypt. The client, West Delta Electricity Production Company, and consultant, PGESCo, specified MED technology for uninterrupted water supply to boilers after carefully studying all available desalination technology options. The Desalination Facility at Abu Qir comprises of two...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its Thermal Equipment and Services segment was awarded a contract in September of approximately $47 million to install a state-of-the-art flue gas discharge system and other upgrades to enhance the existing natural draft cooling tower at Cardinal Station. The coal-fired power plant, jointly owned by Buckeye Power and American Electric Power, is located in Brilliant, Ohio. Flue gas discharge...
