ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around USD 130 million from Kraftnät Åland AB to supply a new power transmission link between the Finnish mainland and Åland. The high-voltage ...
Tags: power technology, automation technology, power transmission link
More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years, according to a study of 250 IT executives. The research by Computacenter revealed that ...
Tags: IT, IT services provider, projects, datacentre market
CHINA will pay CNY 8.6 billion (USD 1.4 billion) in subsidies for power generated from renewable sources this year. Chinese ministry of finance said that the funds will be allocated by provincial financial authorities to grid companies ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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The Asian Development Bank funded 56.4 MW wind power project Jhampir is expected to start generating electricity from next month as the implementing company has completed all necessary work in this regard. This is in addition to the ...
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Business Line reported that India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd awaits final nod to launch the credit enhancement scheme next month. It is also seeking a bigger role in lending to the country's renewable energy sector. Mr Harsh Kumar ...
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When the blades started spinning on SC Johnson's two new wind turbines, the company's Waxdale manufacturing facility began to further minimize its dependence on fossil fuels. The addition of the turbines means that products made and ...
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Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
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BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
Tags: BP, international research center, energy, University of Manchester
On December 18th,2012,the Department of Commerce announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations of imports of utility scale wind towers from China and Vietnam. The AD and CVD ...
The number of invention disclosures submitted also reached a new high of 8,900. Twelve particularly successful researchers and developers whom Siemens honored as Inventors of the Year 2012 in Munich on December 13 played a leading role ...
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December 10, 2012 - New research by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College suggests that, by 2030, renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9% of the time at costs comparable to today’s ...
Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation has finalized a term deal to buy up to 1.097 million tonnes of gasoil for delivery next year from Swiss trader Vitol and oil major BP. Traders said that the company has agreed to pay a premium of ...
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth over USD 100 million, to supply converter transformers and components for the Hami-Zhengzhou ultrahigh-voltage direct current transmission link. The 800 ...
INTERFAX-CHINA reported that State Grid Corp of China absorbed 52% more wind power in October and November than in the same period a year ago as output surged. SGCC, the monopoly grid operator in 26 of China's 31 administrative regions, ...