Power Engineering magazine has awarded Bechtel and Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) the 2013 Nuclear Project of the Year Award. The companies won for the extended power uprates at the St. Lucie and Turkey Point nuclear plants, located ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to report, Korean flat steelmaker Dongbu Steel said it would cut its hot rolled coil (HRC) output in December to lower down the stocks before the year end. The company said it would cut about 20,000 tons during the month. The main ...
Tags: steel, output, metallurgy
Energtek Inc. (OTCBB: EGTK), a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, announced that its newly-formed U.S. subsidiary, AMP - American Mobile Pipeline Inc. attended the CIPA conference in ...
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L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has won an order from Electrabel S.A. for the supply of a full scope operator training simulator for the Tihange 1 nuclear power plant located in the Walloon province of Liège, Belgium. The project ...
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America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
Eight city corporations in Bangladesh, India will be replacing fluorescent and sodium street lights to energy saving LED lights, according to local newspaper The Daily Star. The replacement to LED is estimated to save the province 10 ...
In November, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 3.0 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 3.0 percent in cities and 3.1 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 5.9 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
President Obama signed a memorandum directing the federal government to consume 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, more than double the current level. Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of the U.S. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, renewable sources
Japanese carmaker Honda Motor has joined a demonstration project for experimental vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology project in the US. The project is aimed at offering energy storage resource to the nation's electrical grid as well as ...
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InterOil Corporation (NYSE: IOC; POMSoX: IOC) has agreed to sell to Total S.A. (CAC: TOT; NYSE: TOT) a gross 61.3% interest in Petroleum Retention License 15 ("PRL15") which contains the Elk-Antelope gas fields in the Gulf Province of ...
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"We are not considering any other solutions for the Johan Sverdrup field than land-based power supply," says Øyvind Reinertsen, senior vice president for the Johan Sverdrup field. "The project and the licensees based their concept ...
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In India, during 20 to 30 years, the briquette industry has been developed and at present it has impressed its importance among the world's industries. Biomass today accounts for over one-third of all energy used in the developing ...
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Lifting and material handling equipment holds a lot of importance in almost all the industries, be it the moving industry or warehouses. It not only eases out manual effort, but also enhances the value of the material. There are different ...
Tags: Conveyors, Pallet trucks, Forklifts, Bucket Elevators
PHI Group, Inc. announced that the Company has signed a business cooperation and investment agreement in conjunction with a letter of intent to acquire a 65% equity interest in Nord Energy Co. Ltd. ("NE"), a Vietnam-based company with ...
Tags: Kinetic Power Supply, LED Power
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...