Monday, 03 June 2013 14:14
Sizewell A now 50% defuelled
Progress towards decommissioning Sizewell A nuclear power station has passed a significant milestone, with more than half of the 52,945 fuel elements now removed from Sizewell A’s twin reactors.Defuelling is due to be completed at the site in September 2014.“Removing…
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Monday, 03 June 2013 14:08
AMEC/Jacobs alliance nets Magnox contract
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has announced that its VELA alliance with AMEC was awarded a contract by Magnox Ltd to provide project management resources in support of Magnox’s decommissioning program in the UK.The Project Management Resource Partnership agreement is an…
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 10:38
Welsh Water adds Veolia WWT units
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is to install Veolia tertiary treatment technology at Connahs Quay WwTw. The project is part of a £1.65-million upgrade being carried out by Imtech Water, Waste and Energy – one of the utility's AMP5 partners.This new…
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Monday, 20 May 2013 15:44
Green light for Viridor EfW project
The London Borough of Sutton Development Control Committee has decided to grant Viridor planning permission for the construction of its proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Beddington, Viridor announced 16 MayThe move follows a 15 May announcement from the Environment…
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Friday, 17 May 2013 18:16
Europe's largest water plant to use GE technology
The largest drinking water purification plant in Europe to feature GE’s ZeeWeed 500 water treatment technology is under construction in Ravenna, on the east coast of ItalySeveral years ago, Romagna Acque – Società delle Fonti SpA, the public company in…
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Friday, 17 May 2013 10:15
Metso for Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant
Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant, which was supplied by Metso to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, is employing a technology that is said to be the first of its kind in the country. The plant has been producing energy in Tampere…
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:11
Atkins joins Thames Water AMP6 consortia
Thames Water has appointed WS Atkins plc as part of a design and build consortia with Veolia Water and Costain to deliver a significant proportion of its £3 billion AMP6 investment programme.Under a new alliance model, Thames Water has brought…
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:39
Veolia technology for Thames Water STW
Thames Water is to employ a Biothelys thermal hydrolysis plant, from Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, at its Oxford sewage treatment works (STW). The unit is scheduled to be in operation by March 2014. The Oxford plant will treat a throughput…
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:08
NNL to help clean up Fukushima
Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd (HGNE) is to use of the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory's RadBall technology to help in the cleanup programme at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi site in Japan. RadBall has been selected for potential use in mapping the radiation…
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Monday, 13 May 2013 12:00
First for GE WWT technology in Spain
Spanish poultry processing firm, Procavi SL has doubled wastewater treatment capacity and improved water quality following the installation of a GE membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology.Wastewater discharge regulations and water quality standards, along with an increase in factory production, led Procavi…
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Friday, 10 May 2013 18:20
SSE restructures power portfolio
SSE has decided to change the operating regime of a number of generation plants, the net effect of which is to reduce SSE’s thermal generation capacity in Great Britain by around 2,000MW over the next year. Ferrybridge, Yorkshire (coal-fired) Unit…
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Monday, 06 May 2013 21:57
GE to service RWE npower plants in UK
GE has signed a multimillion dollar, multi-year maintenance plan with UK energy company RWE npower to provide services to help increase the operating flexibility and reduce costs for its Great Yarmouth and Little Barford power plants. Together, these two natural…
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Friday, 03 May 2013 16:06
Bord na Mona to build landfill gas plant
Clarke Energy has signed a contract with Bord na Móna to deliver a landfill gas power plant at the Drehid Landfill site in the Republic of Ireland. This power plant will utilise landfill gas that originates from household waste to…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 10:05
SITA preferred for £1.18bn EFW contract
SITA Sembcorp UK – a consortium led by SITA UK, part of SUEZ Environnement – has been selected as preferred bidder for a resource recovery contract worth £1.18 billion over 30 years with the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority. The…
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