The government of the state of Western Australia has announced that it has approved proposals by Australia-based miner Rio Tinto to expand its iron ore operations and build a major new power station in the Pilbara region, clearing the way ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, has acquired the 50MWAC Macho Springs ...
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The company has invested about €7.5 billion since it set up its Ireland base in 1989. Intel has secured planning approval from Ireland's planning agency to build a $4bn chip manufacturing plant in Leixlip, near Dublin. The new ...
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has revealed expansion plans for its Canada division that will see it invest US$450m in supercentre and distribution facility projects. Outlining the plans today (22 January), Wal-Mart said it is planning 37 ...
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A Canadian consortium of renewable energy developers including Solexica Energy Corporation, JCM Capital and Radical Energy has signed a 20-year concession agreement with CONELEC, Ecuador’s National Electricity Board, for the purchase ...
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Walmart Canada announced that it plans to complete at least 37 supercentre projects in the company's next fiscal year, which runs from February 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014. The company also announced it will be expanding its distribution ...
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New Belgium Brewing has contracted Adolfson & Peterson Construction (A&P) to build the brewery's East Coast brewing facility in Asheville, North Carolina, US. Located on the existing 18-acre brownfield site along the French Broad River, ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has started constructing the 139 megawatt Campo Verde Solar Project, located near El Centro in Imperial County, CA, USA. ...
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January 10, 2013 - BC Hydro says a new 112-km transmission line is providing “reliable electrical service” to communities from Invermere to Field in the upper Columbia Valley this winter. The Columbia Valley Transmission line ...
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Hawaii and Texas Top List of 20 States and D.C. Adding Construction Jobs Since November 2011 as Delaware and New York Trail; Vermont and Louisiana Led 19 States with One-Month Gain, D.C. and Texas Lag Barely one-third of states added ...
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The UK government has set solar and biomass subsidy levels for the next five years, and says building-mounted solar PV projects will receive higher rates than ground-mounted projects over the 2013-2017 period. For the building-mounted ...
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The U.S. green building market continues to accelerate, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's 2013 Dodge Construction Green Outlook report. The value of green building has seen growth from $10 billion in 2005 to $78 billion in 2011. In ...
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Westlake Chemical Corporation announced it is converting the feedstock for its Calvert City, Kentucky ethylene plant from propane to ethane along with increasing ethylene capacity from 450 million pounds per year to 630 million pounds per ...
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Plasco Energy Group Inc. will build a 150,000 tonnes/year waste conversion facility in Ottawa, Ont., which will produce about 15MW of net electricity for the grid. The facility will be built to the Plasco Conversion System (PCS) design ...
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TransCanada Corp. says it has signed a contract with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to develop, own and operate a 900MW natural gas-fired power plant, which will be located at Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) Lennox ...
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