Dedication Ceremony Marks Completion of Tekeze Hydropower Plant

MWH, the global wet infrastructure sector leader and provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, and joint venture partner Energoprojekt Co. Ltd., helped celebrate the completion of the $350 million Tekeze Hydropower Project in northern Ethiopia. more...

MWH, Energoprojekt complete Tekeze hydropower project in Ethiopia

MWH, a provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, and its joint venture partner Energoprojekt have completed the $350 million Tekeze hydropower project in northern Ethiopia. more...

ABB celebrates landmark power technology

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial HVDC Light installation, a technological innovation that has opened up new possibilities in power transmission. more...

Emerson's Scenario Simulation Technology to Streamline Startup of New 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power Plant in Korea

Emerson Process Management announced today that it has won a contract to install its Scenario simulation technology at the new 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Plant. more...

Itron's Fixed Network, Advanced Two-Way Communication to the Endpoint Offers NW Natural Gas Added Value beyond Automation

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that NW Natural Gas is leveraging its deployment of Itron advanced metering technology to include evaluation of its fixed network for collecting two-way time-synchronized interval data and on-demand reads from customers, as well as retrieve up to 40 days of interval data. more...

Dairyland Power Cooperative Awards Comprehensive New SCADA/EMS Contract to OSI

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a comprehensive new contract by Dairyland Power Cooperative to upgrade and replace its Energy Management System (EMS) as well as its Distribution Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. more...

Allegheny Power Launches Aclara Energy Analysis Software to Its Maryland Customers

Aclara, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure solutions for utilities, announces that Allegheny Power has deployed Aclara Energy Analysis software, one of the industry-leading ENERGYprism customer-care solutions, to help customers in Maryland understand how they use power and identify ways they can save energy and money. more...

Customized service for plant component lifetime extension

Siemens Energy has received an order from EnBW Kraftwerke AG to perform a major inspection and overhaul on four steam turbines (each comprising a high-, intermediate and low-pressure cylinder) at the Heilbronn CHP plant and the Walheim power station. more...

Spurring Renewables in Mexico

Francisco Xavier Salazar, president of the Mexican Regulatory Energy Commission, has written an exclusive commentary on new policies recently put in place to spur construction of renewable power projects in Mexico. Read his commentary, exclusively in the current issue of EnergyBiz magazine.

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Alabama Gas Corporation to Automate 500,000 Meters Utilizing Itron Technology

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today that Alabama's largest distributor of natural gas, Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco), has signed a contract for deployment of Itron's mobile automated meter reading (AMR) to 500,000 gas meters. more...

Siemens sponsors Grid-Interop 2009

Grid-Interop 2009 is an annual three-day gathering of thought leaders from around the world who will focus on the successful interconnection of transmission and distribution devices to enable the Smart Grid. more...

Enspiria Solutions Expands Smart Grid Project and Program Management

Enspiria Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors announced today that the company continues to expand Smart Grid Program and Project Management capabilities with the addition of Scott Stein, PMP. more...

Siemens introduces next-generation solar receiver to increase the thermal output of solar thermal power plants

Siemens has announced at the CSP Summit in Seville the release of a new solar receiver, the UVAC 2010 (Universal Vacuum Air Collector), which further increases thermal heat production. more...

Sensus Marks the Deployment of Four Million FlexNet SmartPoint Devices

Electric, gas, and water utilities have installed more than four million Sensus FlexNet(TM) communications systems endpoints--double the number installed last year at this time--and ten percent of President Barak Obama's recently announced goal of deploying 40 million smart meters over the next several years. more...

Dominica Electricity Services Ltd (DOMLEC) Launches Elster's EnergyAxis System

Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), in collaboration with Elster, a leader in smart metering and smart grid systems and solutions, will modernize its grid operations by deploying the first full-scale EnergyAxis smart grid system for the island. more...

Arizona Transmission Success

The states - particularly those in the West - have been busy building thousands of miles of extra-high-voltage transmission lines. Kristin Mayes, the chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, writes about what is happening in transmission. Read her commentary in the current issue of EnergyBiz magazine.

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The Sensus FlexNet Product Offers an Efficient Solution for Ontario, Canada's District 9's Smart Metering Program

The seven electric utilities that comprise the District 9 (D9) Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) consortium in Ontario, Canada, formed its alliance based on common geographical traits: urban as well as remote, rural, rolling hills with sparse endpoint service territories. more...

ABB wins $75 million SVC power order in Canada

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $75 million (USD) from Hydro-Quebec for static VAr compensators (SVCs) - equipment which enables quick responses to electrical disturbances in the grid and contributes to restoring its stability. more...

Fortunes in Cap and Trade

Although the electric industry has endorsed the concept of cap and trade as the least onerous approach to carbon regulation, at least one major company endorses it with enthusiasm. Exelon expects to see a $1.1 billion in revenues if one leading proposal is adopted. Is that number real or simply wishful thinking? Read about likely winners and losers from cap and trade in the current issue of EnergyBiz magazine.

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Elster Group Names Simon Beresford-Wylie New CEO

Elster Group, the world's largest technology and innovation driven provider of smart metering and smart grid systems and solutions to the gas, electricity and water industries, has appointed Simon Beresford-Wylie as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. more...

LG Electronics, Electrolux, Control4, HomeGrid Forum, Midas Medici Group Holdings and CABA Join Smart Grid Association

The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) announced today that six companies have joined the trade association and will contribute to its efforts aimed at developing markets for smart grid technologies and smart grid practices like demand response. more...

Ernie Wright joins Black & Veatch's energy business

Ernie Wright has joined Black & Veatch as a Senior Vice President in the company's global energy business. more...

For higher capacity and greater grid stability: Siemens to expand HVDC link in New Zealand

Siemens Energy has received an order from Wellington-based Transpower New Zealand Limited, the national grid operator, to modernize and increase the capacity of the existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the country's North and South Island. more...