Power Engineering Articles & Analysis

Yorkshire-headquartered power engineering firm Smith Brothers has appointed Danielle Tile as head of business development. She joins from national electrical design consultancy British Power International. Based in Essex, Danielle will strengthen the team's presence in the South of England, whilst investigating new market opportunities throughout the UK. Although many opportunities are emerging ...

By Smith Brothers (Contracting) Ltd

Clarion Events Africa’s trade publications are not only surviving, but thriving, because we have managed to reinvent the medium by embracing digital and key event partnerships to have a 360⁰ live visibility and accessibility.” This is according to Ross Hastie, Group Director Media at Clarion Events Africa, for many years trading as Spintelligent. The company is also known for ...

By VUKA Group

The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) in cooperation with the Indonesian International Geothermal Convention & Exhibition (IIGCE) will hold a two-day geothermal workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 17-18 August, 2015. The GRC Workshop is being held just before the IIGCE 2015 from 19-21 August. The topics to be discussed are “A Geothermal Conceptual Model & Well Targeting" and "A ...

By Geothermal Resources Council (GRC)

During November 10-13th, our company attend Metal-Expo’2015 in Moscow, Russia, the 21st International Industrial Exhibition, the main event in the steel industry. The exhibition bring together more than 560 companies from 32 world countries to exhibit the whole range of ferrous and non-ferrous products, the most state-of-the-art equipment and technologies for the steel industry, ...

By Foshan Mellow Stainless Steel Co., Ltd

Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced this week that it has acquired three companies that expand its geographic coverage and technical services. Tesoro Corporation (Tesoro) is a construction management firm that works primarily for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and military construction programs. Based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Tesoro has ...

By Tetra Tech

The editors of Power Engineering magazine, RenewableEnergyWorld.com and PennWell Corp. have announced 15 finalists for the annual Projects of the Year Awards program. The finalists were selected from eight major categories: Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Bioenergy, Hydro and Geothermal. The Best Coal Project finalists are the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center owned by Dominion Virginia ...

By PennWell Corporation

The editors of Power Engineering magazine and PennWell Corp. have announced nine finalists for the annual Projects of the Year Awards program. The finalists were selected from three major categories: Best Coal-fired Project, Best Gas-fired Project and Best Renewable/Sustainable Project. The Best Nuclear Project category will be replaced this year by a special tribute to the employees of Tokyo ...

By PennWell Corporation

Chip Conley was one of only 2 business leaders who spoke at TED this year (the other was Bill Gates). He received rave reviews and offered a revolutionary shift in our whole paradigm of business. He's decided to take the next step and bring together the 40 leaders, CEOs, authors, visionaries, and provocateurs he most admires who are building this new revolution in the way business is done. They ...

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Power management company Eaton and the University of Pittsburgh today unveiled the Swanson School of Engineering’s new Electric Power Systems Lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Pitt’s Benedum Hall of Engineering. Equipped with electrical products donated by Eaton, the 1,500 square-foot lab will help educate the next generation of electric power engineers with the latest power ...

By Eaton Corporation

Following unprecedented success over the past twelve months, Yorkshire-based high voltage electrical engineering firm Smith Brothers has appointed Richard King as their financial director. With over 30 years’ experience as a financial adviser, and previous directing roles within SMEs, Richard King brings a wealth of accounting and business expertise at an exciting time in the ...

By Smith Brothers (Contracting) Ltd

COLEXON Energy, a leading international solar power engineering, contracting and distribution company, is opening a SOLAR WAREHOUSE AND SHOWROOM in Rye, East Sussex, and launching its COLEXON FLEX kit series in the United Kingdom market. COLEXON's SOLAR WAREHOUSE AND SHOWROOM will open with an information event for renewable energy and solar photovoltaic installers on Tuesday, 24 May, when ...

By 7C Solarparken AG

Power engineering contractor Smith Brothers has completed a large-scale assignment to connect the Saint-Gobain Glass manufacturing facility in Eggborough, Goole, to the grid.Saint-Gobain – Europe’s leading flat glass producer – appointed the Independent Connection Provider (ICP) to upgrade the HV system and handle all electrical and civil engineering works to link the facility into the local ...

By Smith Brothers (Contracting) Ltd

His Royal Highness The Price of Wales has visited Biogen’s GwyriAD anaerobic digestion plant in Wales. The site is located in at Llwyn Isaf near Caernafon and has been developed by Biogen with funding from Iona Capital. Prince Charles visited the facility on the 2nd of July. The facility produces biogas, a renewable fuel, which is used in a combined heat and power engine facility that is ...

By Clarke Energy

Yorkshire-based power engineering firm Smith Brothers has enlisted a new tendering engineer, as it prepares for further continued growth in 2018. Marc Hildreth joins the high voltage experts from Schneider Electric, bringing 12 years of electrical engineering experience to the 5-strong tendering team. As team leader of the 11kV project division in his previous role, his key responsibilities ...

By Smith Brothers (Contracting) Ltd

Visit Clarke Energy and GE who are jointly exhibiting at IHEEM’s Healthcare Estates Conference & Exhibition at Manchester Central Conference centre on the 9th & 10th of October. Learn more about the benefits of combined heat and power for hospitals. Gas engine CHP facilitates reduced energy bills and enables hospitals to spend more on treatment and less on power. Visit the IHEEM ...

By Clarke Energy

November 18, 2016 -- Researchers from SRI International are leading a collaborative team to develop cutting-edge technology that can be used by utilities and cyber first responders to restore power to an electric grid that has come under a cyberattack. The Threat Intelligence for Grid Recovery (TIGR) project aims to provide new tools that enable power engineers to restore and protect electrical ...

By Smart Grid Observer

6 March 2012; The POWER-GEN Africa and Renewable Energy World Africa Advisory Boards met in Johannesburg, South Africa on 28-29 February 2012 to discuss the 2012 Conference Programme. After receiving an encouraging response to the POWER-GEN Africa and Renewable Energy World Africa Call for Papers, which closed in early February, the Advisory Boards, consisting of representatives from Eskom, ...

By PennWell Corporation

- Initiative Responds Dynamically to Increasing GTCC Power Plant Projects - Tokyo, June 15, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will establish MHI Engineering Vienna GmbH in Vienna, Austria, a company which will be responsible for engineering and procurement in the power systems business area. The establishment of the company is aimed to respond dynamically to the ...

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

The containerized cogeneration solution offered by Clarke Energy provide a “turnkey” solution adapted to our customers’ needs, whatever their constraints. Our modular containers, created for our combined heat and power (CHP) engines, are suitable for a number of applications such as: CR16 contracts, natural gas, syngas or biogas. Our standardized solution offers optimised ...

By Clarke Energy

Areva’s exit from the CSP industry has left us wondering about the outcome of the $415-million Areva-Reliance project in Rajasthan. However, with the industry moving on from Phase I of the National Solar Mission, it’s important to understand the bankability of CSP in India, for the Phase II projects that are soon to be announced. At INDIASOL 2014, you will hear the forward thinking ...

By New Energy Update - Reuters Events