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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…