Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000
What keeps you up at night? The question has become cliché as panel moderators now routinely ask it as a “thought-provoking” final query to close out executive roundtable sessions at industry conferences
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:26:11 +0000
Siemens, Three Mile Island, and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) made notable headlines over recent days. Here is this week’s POWER notebook. Siemens Bags First Order for 41-MW Aeroderivative Gas Unit Siemens on March 25 said it received its first order for its newest aeroderivative gas turbine offering—the SGT-A45. The buyer, Bayat Power, a subsidiary […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:37:38 +0000
A German business magazine reports that Siemens is exploring options for its struggling gas turbine business, and could look to form a joint venture with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). Manager Magazin on March 21 said Siemens “wants to accommodate the large turbine business of the Japanese Mitsubishi Group and in the future hold only a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:39:54 +0000
When U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), he unintentionally ignited the worldwide deregulation of electricity markets, which in turn began a worldwide technology race between two distinct types of power plants: the newly created, industrial-scale plant that PURPA dubbed “cogeneration” and the traditional, utility-scale power […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:05:42 +0000
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) appears to have snagged the lead in an intensifying competition in a mostly flat market for heavy-duty gas turbines of above 100 MW, but GE retained its lead both for overall installed gas turbine capacity and units in 2018, a much-watched industry ranking suggests. Data from McCoy Power Reports’ latest […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:03:00 +0000
Multibillion-dollar energy deals that both Siemens and General Electric (GE) signed with the Iraqi government last year may not come to fruition, according to the country’s electricity minister. The Financial Times on February 10 reported that Luay Al-Khatteeb, who took his post late last year after the deals were brokered, told the newspaper, “I don’t […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000
What began in the world of finance has moved into the power sector. Blockchain, a nascent technology most often associated with cryptocurrency, is a new frontier in the energy space, changing the way power is
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:01:39 +0000
There’s never a dull moment in the power industry, and like most years, 2018 was filled with many interesting developments. As it has been for more than 135 years, POWER was there to break the news. The following 10 articles were the most-read online stories of the year. #10: New York Denies Air Permit for […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:28:22 +0000
Siemens on December 11 said it would lay off about 200 workers at a gas turbines parts and components service center in Houston, Texas, sometime in late 2019 or early 2020. A company spokesperson made the announcement Tuesday, saying the cuts are due to weak global demand for the company’s turbines. Siemens in a statement […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:02:48 +0000
A novel floating power plant that combines a 145-MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant and a battery energy storage system could begin operating in the Dominican Republic by early 2021. Siemens and the marine arm of Singapore-based ST Engineering on December 3 said they jointly received an order for a SeaFloat barge-mounted power plant from […]
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