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Latest News from USA

• John Zink Hamworthy teams with Babcock & Wilcox on steam generator systems (2019/09/04 22:57)

  The agreement pairs JZHC’s ultra-low-NOx Coen burners with B&W’s water-tube package boilers, which both companies will offer to their customers.

  
• 220-MW Grady Wind power facility in New Mexico now operational (2019/09/04 21:15)

  New Mexico’s newest wind power facility is now up and running. Pattern Energy Group 2 LP (Pattern Development) announced it has completed construction and begun operations at its 220-MW Grady Wind facility located in Curry County, New Mexico. This is the third and final phase of a 544-MW suite of wind projects, which now represent the largest investment in clean power in the history of New Mexico, according to Pattern.
• Wärtsilä launches latest engine at POWERGEN Asia (2019/09/04 18:53)

  The 31DF engine is specifically designed for two-stage turbo charging and delivers an output of 11 MW. 

  
• EIA: Solar construction costs fall, but still more expensive than gas and wind (2019/09/04 16:49)

  Solar photovoltaic generation accounted for 37 percent of all investment in new U.S. generation capacity, spending close to $12 billion to add 5 GW, according to the EIA. U.S.-based power generators added 10.5 GW of gas-fired capacity, but it cost less- at $896 per kW for the average combined-cycle installation-than the solar additions and nearly half of wind capacity costs, the EIA data shows.  

  
• Cheniere Energy commissions LNG export train at Corpus Christi (2019/09/04 14:12)

  Global utilities and energy firms such as Électricité de France, Iberdrola (Spain)., Naturgy Energy Group S.A., PT Pertamina (Persero in Indonesia), and Woodside Energy Trading Singapore Pte Ltd. all have agreement for the LNG output.

  
• Siemens building 446-MW gas-fired CC plant in France (2019/09/04 13:02)

  Siemens will supply an SGT5-4000F gas turbine, an SST5-3000 steam turbine, an SGen5-2000H generator, the heat-recovery steam generator, and the SPPA-T3000 control system. 

  
• JERA takes stake in 750-MW Bangladesh CCGT plant (2019/09/03 23:12)

  The project is now under development led by Reliance Power. It is JERA’s first project foray into Bangladesh.

  
• Ameren Missouri to bring customers solar energy at night (2019/09/03 19:51)

  Ameren Missouri, a unit of Ameren Corp., filed plans with the Missouri Public Service Commission to build three solar + storage facilities across Missouri

  
• Renewable energy takes center stage at POWERGEN ASIA and Asian Utility Week (2019/09/03 17:07)

  Shantanu Jaiswal of Bloomberg NEF set the stage for the keynote, which was titled Navigating the Energy Transition. Jaiswal presented strategies for a cleaner future, even in a country that now generates 75 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels.

  
• MAN Energy Solutions inaugurates dual-fuel power plant in west African nation (2019/09/03 16:13)

  Maria Gleta will increase Benin’s generation capacity by more than 50 percent and will be fed by a connection to a liquified natural gas (LNG) floating storage and regasification unit along its Atlantic coastline.