All Power & Water


UK rejigs £1bn carbon capture competition

Added: 3 Apr 2012

Changes signal move away from large-scale project proposals in the coal-fired power industry

Dounreay decommissioning

Babcock Dounreay Partnership takes over at Dounreay

Added: 2 Apr 2012

London - The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has formally awarded Babcock Dounreay Partners…

E.ON, RWE quit UK nuclear venture

Added: 27 Mar 2012

Horizon Nuclear Power JV had planned to deliver around 6,000MW of new nuclear power station capacit…

Cyber

Byres: "Air gaps won't stop Stuxnet's children"

Added: 15 Mar 2012

Cyber

Edited version of article by Eric Byres of Canadian IT security firm Byres Security:

 

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Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

Drax axes 'new biomass' plans

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012

Added: 5 Mar 2012

Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…

Scottish Water wastewater project cuts flooding risk

Added: 27 Feb 2012

Campbeltown, UK – Scottish Water has completed a £23-million environmental improvement project to p…

MIT research could help improve plant efficiency

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Massachusetts, US- Research by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has provid…

South America contracts for Metso

Added: 22 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso is to deliver automation technology to two major infrastructure projects currently…

Rotork at Dutch water treatment plant

Retrofit increases valve efficiency at Dutch water treatment plant

Added: 16 Feb 2012

Amsterdam – Waternet has installed Rotork modulating electric valve actuators as part of an efficie…

Measurement technology can raise capacity of wastewater plants

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso has developed an on-line measurement technology, which it claims, can enable munic…

Yorkshire Water starts work on £30m 'poo-power' scheme

Added: 3 Feb 2012

Bradford, UK – Yorkshire Water has started work on a £30-million project to install the UK’s first …

Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project

Added: 31 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …

Essen to pioneer new superconductor link for electricity transmission

Added: 30 Jan 2012

Essen, Germany – The city of Essen will be the pioneer for a new chapter of inner-city electricity …

System integrators in demand in India

Added: 25 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

US utilities order Westinghouse nuclear shutdown seal

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – In the US, Westinghouse Electric Co. has installed its reactor coolant pump (RCP) passive …

Three big issues in 2012

Added: 23 Jan 2012

London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…