Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:55
ANDRITZ has been awarded major refurbishment contract by Hydro-Québec, Canada
International technology group ANDRITZ has been selected by Hydro-Québec as the exclusive partner to re-equip potentially up to all fourteen 54-MW turbine generator units at the Carillon generating station located on the Ottawa River, Canada. Hydro-Québec has awarded the supply…
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020 11:35
Eco Wave Power Announces Strategic Collaboration with Painhas Engineering and Construction Company for its Portugal Project
Publicly traded wave energy developer, Eco Wave Power (EWPG Holding AB, Stock Symbol: ECOWVE), has just announced the strategic collaboration with Painhas for the technical support for the licensing of its’ Portugal project. Painhas, which was founded in 1980, has…
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Friday, 28 June 2013 12:22
United Utilites boss sets out investment plans
United Utilities has some 9000 projects ongoing in the current AMP, investing £787 million in 2012/13 – about £100 million higher than the previous year. Cumulative investment across the first three years of AMP5 is now just over £2 billion.…
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:07
Motors for world's largest natural heat-pump system
MV motors from ABB are being used in the world's largest district-wide natural heat-pump system.Based on technology from Star Refrigeration of Glasgow, the system will provide over 13MW of heat for Drammen, near Oslo, via a network of underground pipes.The…
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:21
Redhall buoyed by record order books
Engineering services provider Redhall Group plc has posted some positive figures for the six months to 31 March – not least a record order book of £152 million, about 50% higher than in the first-half of 2012.As chairman David Jackson…
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013 16:17
Southern Water adds heat exchanger for poo-power
Southern Water has installed a new heat exchanger to help harness poo power at its Budds Farm Wastewater Treatment Works in Havant. The unit has been added to the site’s Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant which captures bio-gas created…
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Tuesday, 04 June 2013 22:23
Energos taps Atkins for Glasgow EfW project
Atkins has recently been selected by Energos to help deliver an advanced conversion facility as part of Viridor and Glasgow City Council's £146 million Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC).The GRREC will divert Glasgow’s domestic residual waste from landfill…
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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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