Tag: power generation

Alstom wins German powergen order

Alstom has been awarded a contract by N-ERGIE AG, Nuremberg’s electrical utility, to supply a co-generation power plant to the Sandreuth combined heat and power (CHP) plant.

Britain plans more offshore wind power

Britain is gearing up to build a wave of huge offshore wind farms.

Hydro modernisation in Vietnam

Alstom has won a contract valued at EUR 6 million with Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan to supply new control system and protection equipment for the rehabilitation of Da Nhim Hydro Power Station (4 x 40 MW).

Spanish power revamp

Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Iberia SA, has signed a contract with Endesa, Spain's largest utility, to upgrade four steam-generating units at the As Pontes power plant in La Coruna.

German powergen surge

Germany's municipal utilities are planning to invest EUR 1.7 billion in combined heat and power plants (CHP) over the next two years.

Alstom to supply turbine to Latvia

Alstom's industrial gas turbines business, in Sweden, has been awarded an order for turbine in a new combined cycle plant in Riga, Latvia.

Hydro expansion in Canada

Alstom has signed a contract valued at more than EUR 29 million with SNC-Lavalin for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a turbine-generator set, plant controls and their auxiliaries at the Brilliant Expansion Hydroelectric Power Plant in Canada.

Swedish welding pact

PCI Energy Services LLC, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, has entered into a three-year teaming agreement with Uddcomb Engineering AB (UE) headquarters in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Tata Power plans project in Delhi

Tata Power plans to develop a power generation plant in Bawana, Delhi, India.

Advanced austenitic

In collaboration with the Caterpillar Technical Center, researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new modified cast austenitic stainless steel, CF8C-Plus.