The following replaces the announcement released on 15 March 2010 at 07.00 under RNS number 54751. The change to the announcement is in the first sentence of the first paragraph headed “Shaikan-2 appraisal well”. The mean oil in place volume is “4.2 billion barrels” and not “4.8 billion barrels” as previously stated. All other details remain unchanged.
Telvent (Nasdaq:TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, has announced today the signature of a new contract with Pemex, the national energy company in Mexico. Telvent will install its supervision, control and data acquisition system OASyS SCADA to manage seven multiproduct pipelines of the National Oil Pipeline Network of Pemex Refinacion. Unlike oil pipelines that transport crude oil only, product pipelines transport various liquid hydrocarbons.
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Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) is pleased to announce that work to replace the damaged power cable systems at the Faulkner 1 plant has enabled all three turbine generator units to be placed into operation and for the Company to re-establish commercial power production. For the past five days, the Faulkner 1 geothermal plant has been producing at 34.5 MW (Net). Read more…
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. announced today that Munich Re’s Special Enterprise Risk unit’s new insurance solution will cover the performance warranty of its photovoltaic modules. Read more…
Finavera Renewables Inc. is pleased to announce all four of its wind projects, comprising a total nameplate capacity of 293 megawatts (”MW”), submitted to the 2008 Clean Power Call have been accepted by BC Hydro for award of long term Electricity Purchase Agreements (”EPA”). BC Hydro, an S&P AAA rated, provincially owned utility, is the third largest electric utility in Canada and serves 1.8 million customers in an area covering the majority of British Columbia’s population. Read more…
The U.S. Renewable Energy Group (US-REG), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (Nasdaq: APWR or “A-Power”), and American Nevada Group (”ANC”) today announced the development and construction of a new production and assembly plant in Nevada that will supply highly advanced wind energy turbines to renewable energy projects throughout North and South America. The state-of-the-art facility will be approximately 320,000 square feet with annual production capacity of 1,100 megawatts of wind energy turbines annually, enough to power 330,000 homes. The facility is expected to employ approximately 1,000 Nevada workers and create even more jobs during the construction process. ANC will identify potential sites for the facility and will develop the facility for the group. Read more…
SunPower Corp., a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced that the company has been awarded two grants totaling approximately $1.5 million from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration (CSI RD&D) Program. SunPower will participate on two distinct projects with leading solar technologists to research how to facilitate high levels of distributed photovoltaic (PV) penetration into the utility distribution system. Read more…
Great Lakes Utilities (GLU) and Consolidated Water Power Company (CWPCo), a subsidiary of NewPage Corporation, are announcing they have signed a letter of intent to sell five CWPCo hydroelectric projects located along the Wisconsin River in DuBay, Stevens Point, Whiting, Biron and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Read more…
Onvia, Inc. is tracking 2,700 energy efficiency, renewable energy, and transmission upgrade projects kicking off in 2010 as a result of funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law a year ago. Worth billions, these projects will lay the foundation for a green economy that will fuel job and business growth for years to come. Onvia is the leader in gBusiness solutions and the creator of Recovery.org, a private sector initiative to give businesses transparency into recovery project spending. Read more…
Juhl Wind Inc., the Leader in Community Wind Power, today announced that Juhl Wind and Honeywell International have been awarded a United States Department of Energy program to test the application of an advanced “Condition Monitoring System” to provide remotely controlled data monitoring for turbine maintenance. Within the project, Honeywell will be providing technology which is designed to improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs of turbine systems and Juhl will be providing the field application, installation, monitoring and support. Read more…