Building new power plant is an expensive and time consuming business. Investment decisions are linked to economic growth, availability of finance, fuel costs, the regulatory regime and market incentives as well as likely future demand for energy.
The wind turbine industry has emerged as a driving force for the development of a new generation of high-performance industrial lubricants, where reliability and protection under extreme conditions are paramount.
Configuration Management (CM) is essential for the safe and reliable operation of any power plant. It is an integrated process that reaches across all areas of plant Operations Maintenance & Engineering (OM&E) including corporate support organisations.
In the current economic climate, the need to keep operating costs low but efficiencies high are greater than ever.
In terms of its per-capita endowment of primary energy, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is close to the global average. Its 800 million people make up about 9 per cent of the world's population and they are estimated to share 8 per cent of global gas reserves, 10 per cent of the world's oil, and 13 per cent of hydropower resources – as well as much more than their fair share of solar radiation.
To use the analogy of a juggernaut to describe the impact shale gas is having on the world's energy landscape is not too outrageous. In the US, for example, reserves have turned a nation set to become heavily import dependent into a potential gas exporter.
None of us currently live in what could claim to be smart city, but in a decade's time that could have radically changed.
World energy consumption is set to climb by 53 per cent between 2008 and 2035, with renewables outpacing, but not overtaking, fossil feedstocks, concludes a new report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
After hitting an all-time low in 2009–10, western Europe's steam and gas turbines market will pick up from 2012 to 2014 and hit $2bn in revenue by 2017, finds new research from Frost & Sullivan.
India's largest power producer National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) plans to build four coal-based projects with a combined capacity of over 8300 MW in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh over the next five years.
The United States will enforce standards on smog pollution set in 2008 under the Bush administration after the White House gave way to pressure from business groups to drop proposals for stricter limits.
China Datang Corporation and Alstom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a long-term strategic partnership and jointly develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects in China.
Expanding its lineup of biogas engines for a wider range of power outputs, GE has introduced its Waukesha APG1000 gas engine that can use a broader variety of biogases, including from landfills, wastewater treatment plants and agricultural waste.
An essential part of EDF Energy's comprehensive safety system in its UK nuclear fleet is the high quality welding systems provided by Arc Machines Inc (AMI) for secure repairs to damaged re-heater tubes.
PEi: Having just received an additional $13 million funding, how difficult are you finding it to secure investment in the existing economic climate?
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