An Innovative Solution to Become “Energy Positive”
Oslo, Norway – Using the system for Guarantees of Origin (GO) and an innovative financing model companies now can become energy positive; creating more renewable energy than they consume. This is the ECOHZ GO2 solution. ECOHZ, a provider of global renewable energy solutions, is now launching two product options GO² United and GO² Signature to allow for both collaborative and exclusive strategies to become energy positive. “GO² United and GO² Signature help companies produce new renewable energy...
City Leaders Must Take Control of Own Energy Future
Cities have more power to secure their own cleaner energy supply than they realise, a study at the 23rd World Energy Congress shows. Growing cities, already accounting for over 50% of global energy consumption, can no longer afford to rely on a centralised energy supply and will need to take greater control to meet growing demand. Arup's “Innovating Urban Energy” perspective paper provides insight for the World Energy Council Scenarios Report and shows that new technologies, innovative fin...
PHMSA Issues Interim Final Rule To Implement Expanded Authority to Issue Emergency Orders, Improve Pipeline Safety
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today issued an Interim Final Rule (“IFR”) to implement the agency’s expanded authority to address unsafe pipeline conditions or practices that pose an imminent hazard to life, property, or the environment. The regulations adopt a provision of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 (PIPES Act), that allows the agency to impose emergency re...
PHMSA Awards $900,000 to Higher Educational Institutions to Support Pipeline Safety Research
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced it is providing a total of $900K to three educational institutions as part of its Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP) for pipeline safety research. The awards announced today will go to Iowa State University, West Virginia University and North Dakota State University to spur the development of research projects that could prevent or mitigate pipeline corr...
Atkins Awarded Major Nuclear Contract by US Department of Energy
Atkins has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with joint venture partners Westinghouse and Fluor, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract to the Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC (MCS) joint venture is valued at $318 million over a five-year period of performance beginning this year. The projec...
U.S. Department of Energy Awards Tetra Tech Joint Venture $400 Million Contract
PASADENA, Calif.- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that its joint venture with Sealaska Technical Services was selected to provide design-build services to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Under the Design, Integration, Construction, Communication, and Engineering (DICCE) contract, the joint venture will share in the $400-million contract ceiling over seven years. The DICCE contract is administered by the NNSA Office of Nuclear Sm...
Jacobs Wins Contract to Support Olin Gulf Coast Chemical Plants
PASADENA, Calif.- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a multi-year contract from Olin Corporation. Jacobs is one of several companies providing engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for facilities in Freeport, Texas; Plaquemine, Louisiana; St. Gabriel, Louisiana; and McIntosh, Alabama. In making the announcement, Jacobs President Petroleum and Chemicals Gary Mandel said, “Securing this contract represents a strong endorsement...
Amec Foster Wheeler Wins New Dounreay Design and Build Contract
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has won a contract to provide a new effluent treatment plant for the Dounreay nuclear site in the UK. The contract, valued at £7m, was awarded by Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL), which is responsible for decommissioning the former centre of fast reactor research and development in Caithness, Scotland. Amec Foster Wheeler shares Dounreay’s commitment to the local community and will be engaging the local supply chain to...
U.S. Department of Energy Selects Fluor Joint Venture to Operate the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facilities
IRVING, Texas -Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC (MCS), a joint venture comprised of Atkins, Fluor and Westinghouse, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract is valued at $318 million for the joint venture over a five-year period o...
Off-Grid Renewables Offer Unprecedented Opportunity to Achieve 100% Energy Access
Nairobi, Kenya, 30 September 2016 – More than 500 participants gathered in Nairobi today for the opening of the third International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC). Organised by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the conference aims to boost electricity access through the development of off-grid renewables. Today, roughly 15 per cent of the world’s population lives without electricity, but off-grid solutions can provide an estimated 60 per cent of the additional gene...
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