DOE and eight other federal departments and agencies announced on October 23 that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to speed the construction of electric transmission lines on federal lands. more...
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American Electric Power is creating a new company to handle the interstate transmission of power, a task previously handled at the state level. more...
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American Transmission Co. recently signed contracts with two nationally recognized construction services firms for transmission line and substation work. more...
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Allegheny Power, the energy delivery business of Allegheny Energy, Inc. more...
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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") announces the successful completion of trials of its Underwater Substation Pod ("USP") product in Spain. The USP, based on the Company's proprietary design, has been developed to facilitate the collection, networking and transforming of power and data generated by up to ten of its PowerBuoys for transmission to a shore-based electricity grid by one subsea power cable. It has been built as an open platform, and can therefore provide "plug and play" connectivity for any offshore energy device linked to it. more...
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NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NVE) and the Western Area Power Administration (Western) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which the parties intend to explore the potential development of 500-kilovolt transmission lines and associated facilities to acces renewable energy resources and deliver those resources to electricity users in Nevada, California, Arizona and other markets in the Southwest U.S. more...
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Seattle City Light, Bonneville Power Administration and Pend Oreille PUD announced today that they have completed a key step for re-establishing a transmission line that will increase BPA's transmission reliability in northeastern Washington and lower costs for the two utilities. more...
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division (T&D) in the United States has
signed an agreement to be the key supplier of single-phase autotransformers to
Northeast Utilities (NU) through to 2014. more...
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Hitachi America, Ltd. today announced that it has introduced amorphous metal distribution transformers in the United States. Hitachi has actively promoted amorphous metal distribution transformers in Asia for over 20 years and it has over 90% market share for amorphous metal distribution transformers in Japan. more...
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AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), has selected PCS UtiliData’s AdaptiVolt™ Volt/Var Optimization system for a demand reduction project in northeast central Ohio as part of the company’s recently announced AEP Ohio gridSMARTSM Demonstration Project. more...
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LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA TSC) today filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) an application to build a new 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Gillespie, Llano, San Saba, Burnet, and Lampasas counties. more...
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and the shareholders of
Megatran Electric Ltd today announced that they have signed an agreement for
AREVA T&D to acquire Megatran, the Canadian-based power transformer
manufacturer. more...
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Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce a new order for ACCC(TM) conductor for its subsidiary CTC Cable Corporation. more...
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Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce two new orders for ACCC core for its subsidiary CTC Cable Corporation. more...
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has recently won an order worth approximately €21 million from the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. more...
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A team of power industry experts headed by POWER Engineers, a leading engineering firm in the design of transmission systems, recently submitted a proposal to the U.S. more...
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American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, and LS Cable Ltd. more...
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