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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…

Cloud could help Anglian Water beat metal theft

Added: 19 Jan 2012

London – Metal theft is costing the UK economy more than £770 million every year as thieves target …

Severn Trent Water mulls switch to peristaltic pumps

Added: 18 Jan 2012

London – Severn Trent Water is considering expanding its use of peristaltic pumping following the r…

Thames Water advances secure remote monitoring and control of critical assets

Added: 11 Jan 2012

London – Thames Water is installing industrial-grade Ethernet routers – which provide secure, ADSL …

400 top boxes for major Scottish Water project

Added: 3 Jan 2012

Edinburgh, UK – Engineers working on a flagship project for Scotxtish Water have installed over 400…

Shell, SSE agree carbon capture and storage project

Added: 11 Nov 2011

London – SSE plc and Shell UK Ltd have agreed to jointly develop a proposed carbon capture and stor…

New lighting saves Welsh Water £70k/year

Added: 11 Nov 2011

Cardiff, UK – Welsh Water has reduced its electricity bills by £70,000/year as a result of a progra…

UK facing tough energy choices, warns RWE npower

Added: 9 Nov 2011

London – The lack of a clear, co-ordinated energy policy in the UK could mean spiralling costs for …

Brazil biomass producer targets Europe

Added: 7 Nov 2011

São Luís, Brazil – Suzano Renewable Energy, part of the Suzano Pulp and Paper company, has recently…

Leeds 'sludge team' targets nuclear waste

Added: 2 Nov 2011

Leeds, UK – It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Researchers from the University of Leeds ha…

EMR: 'Unremitting' cost increases?

Added: 1 Nov 2011

During a conference at The Energy Event, at the Birmingham NEC, Andrew Buckley, director-general of…

New water quality monitoring service

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The Environment Agency (EA) has created a new agency, called the National Water Quality Instrumenta…

Apps ease maintenance woes

Added: 1 Nov 2011

While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…

Environmental monitoring: Joined up power plants

Added: 1 Nov 2011

The appetite for the development of new waste-to-energy and biomass incineration plants is increasi…