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Wärtsilä to operate and maintain Nigerian power plant
Wartsila North American Inc - Wärtsilä, a leading supplier of flexible power plants for the decentralized power generation market, has been awarded an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for 10 years by Lafarge Cement WAPCO Plc, a major cement manufacturer, to run its cement plant power station in Nigeria. more...
Emerson's Scenario Simulation Technology to Streamline Startup of New 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power Plant in Korea
Emerson Process Management - 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...
Customized service for plant component lifetime extension
Siemens Energy, Inc. - 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...
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Coreworx Announces First Interface Management Solution for Nuclear and Offshore Oil Mega Projects
Coreworx Inc. - Coreworx Inc., a subsidiary of Acorn Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACFN), today announced the release of Coreworx Interface Management at the American Nuclear Society 2009 Winter Meeting and the Construction User Roundtable (CURT) National Conference. Coreworx is the leading provider of project execution and information control software used globally by energy industry leaders to manage major capital project execution risk. more...
Power and Water Corporation Taps IBM to Aid in Asset Management Program
IBM Corporation - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a $14.5 million agreement with Power and Water Corporation, the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, to help design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to its customers more efficiently. more...
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Intelligence for the Utility as Well as the Grid

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - What comes first – the smart meter or the ability to capture and effectively utilize the information available from the more...

Gems from Silicon Valley and GreenBeat 2009

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...

Federal CO2 Legislation Falters While EPA Marches On

Blogger Photo By Peter Spinney - It now looks unlikely that passage of federal cap & trade legislation for greenhouse gasses will occur this year, despite more...

Where the utility hits the road: mobile workforce optimization

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Back in September, I had the opportunity to meet with Thomas Ligocki, the president and CEO of Clevest Solutions Inc. more...

Has Smart Metering hit the first speed bump in US?

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - The headline above actually was written by Vijayasekar Rajsekar, senior project engineer at AREVA T&D, Redmond, WA, on Linkedin, another more...
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