Western Electric Co-ops Increasingly Able to Deliver Savings by Integrating Renewable Energy
BOULDER, COLO. Aug. 23, 2018, — Declines in renewable energy pricing are creating opportunities for electric cooperatives in the U.S. Mountain West to deliver cost savings to their members, and simultaneously creating risks for those utilities that are slower to transition to these technologies, according to a new study from Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). To illustrate the importance of this broad regional trend, RMI produced a case study of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Associa...
Wärtsilä to Help Ensure Reliable Power Supply in Challenging Hawaii Conditions Through Smart Technologies
Clean, secure, and uninterrupted power is at the core of Hawaiian Electric’s 50-megawatt Schofield Generating Station. Wärtsilä has signed a Maintenance and Operational advisory agreement for the power plant, located on the island of Oahu, 40 kilometres from Honolulu. The agreement will help the utility to maximize the availability and efficiency of the power plant. Wärtsilä, for the duration of the 10-year agreement, will provide advisory and maintenance services that help ensure reliable po...
Thermaldyne to Open West Baton Rouge Plant in 2018
BATON ROUGE, La., August 20, 2018 - Thermaldyne CEO Randall Tolbert today announced that the environmental solutions company has made a $50 million investment in West Baton Rouge which will allow Thermaldyne to open the plant in late 2018. The project will bring 75 new jobs with an average salary of $80k, plus benefits. The project has expanded in both capital investment and job creation. The reclamation plant will afford an in-state option for Louisiana oil companies for management of their...
Last Ever Polish Coal Block to be Built in Ostrałęka as President Duda Commits to EU Target of 15% Energy Consumption from Renewables by 2020
August 20, 2018. The biggest European polluter is now officially committed to EU’s renewable targets, marking an important first step in moving away from coal-based energy. In June 2018, Polish President, Andrzej Duda, signed an amendment to the country’s renewable sources of energy law in order to help the country meet the European Union’s 2020 renewable energy targets. When elected in 2015, Poland’s then-newly-elected Law and Justice party (PiS) pledged to sustain the country’s long-st...
Wärtsilä to Help Ensure Reliable Power Supply in Challenging Hawaii Conditions Through Smart Technologies
Clean, secure, and uninterrupted power is at the core of Hawaiian Electric’s 50-megawatt Schofield Generating Station. Wärtsilä has signed a Maintenance and Operational advisory agreement for the power plant, located on the island of Oahu, 40 kilometres from Honolulu. The agreement will help the utility to maximize the availability and efficiency of the power plant. Wärtsilä, for the duration of the 10-year agreement, will provide advisory and maintenance services that help ensure reliable po...
Sanjeev Gupta to Build 280MW Solar Farm in South Australia
Details of a 280MW solar farm have been unveiled in South Australia as the first part of Sanjeev Gupta’s global GFG Alliance US$1 billion, one‐gigawatt dispatchable renewable energy program. The Cultana Solar Project in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf will include 780,000 solar panels capable of generating 600GWh of energy generation per year, enough to power 96,000 homes while offsetting 492,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. Construction is expected to begin in early 2019....
Petroteq Completes Continuity Testing of New Plant
Sherman Oaks, California - ( August 10, 2018) - Petroteq Energy Inc. ("Petroteq" or the "Company") (TSXV: PQE) (OTC Pink: PQEFF) (FSE: PQCF), a fully integrated oil and gas company, has finalized continuity testing at its Asphalt Ridge facility and is making final arrangements for continuous operations and marketing activities. "While the pricing and structure of the sales production/marketing strategy are yet to be finalized, Petroteq management is confident that operational costs and relate...
Siemens to Help Calif. City Save Millions Through Solar Energy
Wasco, Calif. projected to achieve more than $8.6M in energy savings, 41.7M kWh in reduced energy usage by end of 15-year performance contract An energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with Siemens will allow the city of Wasco, Calif., to use energy savings to fund a solar project situated on a former burn dump. The renewable energy produced will help offset approximately 60 percent of the city’s current energy usage and costs associated with its municipal buildings as well as the t...
EIA Releases August’s U.S. Short-Term Energy Forecast
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Forecast Highlights Global liquid fuels Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $74 per barrel (b) in July, largely unchanged from the average in June. EIA expects Brent spot prices will average $72/b in 2018 and $71/b in 2019. EIA expects West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices will average about $6/b lower than Brent prices in 2018 and in 2019. NYMEX WTI...
Challenges Keep China’s Shale Gas at Early Stage of Development, says GlobalData
China’s upstream industry is turning to natural gas as a way to reduce air pollution created by the consumption of coal. However, despite the progress made in the shale gas industry since 2011, China has been facing challenges to develop efficient shale gas extraction, observes leading data and analytics company GlobalData. With 27 trillion cubic feet (tcf) proved shale gas reserves China has emerged as the world’s largest shale gas producer outside the US and Canada. Besides supportive gover...
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