GE has signed a cooperative research agreement with King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) to undertake cutting-edge research on enhancing the fuel flexibility of GE’s advanced gas turbines. The collaborative research, led by Saudi-based international professionals and students from KAUST along with GE’s global team, will focus on…

Ripon Cogeneration replaces aging, error-prone DCS with Rockwell Automation – Rockwell.com. Ripon Cogeneration, which helps supply energy to homes and businesses throughout most of northern and central California, achieved unprecedented plant performance including a 30 percent reduction in start-up time by replacing its obsolete distributed control system (DCS) with the…

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it recently received an order for a C600 microturbine and a C800 microturbine to upgrade a major building in the Sydney Central Business District (CBD). Optimal Group, Capstone’s Australian distributor, secured the…

Cogeneration System Utilizes Waste Gas from Ethanol Production as Energy Source, Reducing Electricity Costs and Plant Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEIX), the leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the Western United States, announced its agreement with Dresser-Rand (NYSE:DRC) to install a 3.5 megawatt cogeneration system with gradual oxidizer…

Tecogen((R)) Inc. today announced the sale of two STx Series TECOCHILL((R)) natural gas-powered chillers to a major university located in the Bronx, New York. The new chillers will provide 400 tons of cooling capacity to one of the University’s libraries commensurate to 240 kW of reduction in peak electric usage…

Under the terms of the agreement, GDF SUEZ will deliver 20 cargoes (around 1.2 million tons) of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Chubu for a 27-month period starting in the 1st quarter of 2015. LNG will be sourced from GDF SUEZ global supply portfolio. Jean-Marie Dauger, executive Vice-President of GDF…

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.–Toray Plastics (America), Inc., (www.toraytpa.com), is now operating a second cogeneration system at its 70-acre North Kingstown, Rhode Island, campus. A ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 25 was hosted by Mike Brandmeier, President and CEO, who welcomed Mr. Kazuo Morimoto, Chief Executive Representative to the Americas, Toray Industries (America),…

Micro Combined Heat & Power (M-CHP) (Microgeneration) Market by Technology (Stirling Engine, Organic Rankine Cycle Engine, Internal Combustion engine, PEMFC and SOFC), by Application (Residential and Commercial) & by Geography – Market Trends & Forecasts (2014 – 2019) The demand for micro CHP system has been estimated from the demand…

Alstom Bharat Forge Power Ltd. (ABFPL), the joint venture company between Alstom and Bharat Forge, has signed a contract worth approximately € 130 million (11365 MINR) with NTPC Limited to supply two units of 660 MW supercritical turbine islands for the Tanda coal power plant, located in the state of…

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced it is seeking between 500 and 800 megawatts (MW) of new, local resources to help replace the power previously provided by the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station as well as the retirement of older, coastal power plants that use once-through-cooling technology. The California…