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  1. Dubai's DEWA signs gas turbine, substation upgrade contracts with Ansaldo Energia, Areva T&D

    Article

    Mon, 12 Jul 2010

    2m) as the utilities company upgrades facilities to meet an uptick in demand ..... supply contract for spare parts, upgrades and specialist services related ..... Dh2.5m with Areva T&D to upgrade its transmission system at its

  2. Calpine selects Siemens for gas turbine upgrades

    Article

    Tue, 28 Apr 2009

    million, Siemens Energy will upgrade about a third of Calpine Corp ..... turbines, with an option to upgrade additional units. The upgrades will add incremental capacity ..... efficiency. Calpine intends to upgrade over the next several years

  1. GE completes Californian hydro upgrade

    Article

    Tue, 8 Jun 2004

    GE Energy recently completed a controls upgrade and retrofit for Northern California Power ..... hydro plant in Vallecito, Calif. The upgrades were part of a program to help NCPA become ..... functions into a single digital control. This upgrade eliminated reliability issues and decreased

  2. Siemens to upgrade 500 MW natural gas-fired plant

    Article

    Tue, 24 Feb 2009

    Renewables, gave Siemens Energy Inc. an upgrade order for a 500 MW natural gas ..... generator rewinds and modernization upgrades , an inlet heating system, a combustion ..... for completion by mid-2010. The upgrade scope for the two SGT6-5000F combustion

  3. Areva signs nuclear upgrades agreement with Entergy

    Article

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    ECM, has signed agreements with Entergy Nuclear for future upgrades at all nine Entergy nuclear plant sites. The five-year agreements ..... procurement and construction (EPC) services for capital projects to upgrade the sites for future operations. Entergy owns eleven nuclear

  4. Bahrain Alba plant upgrades Alstom turbines

    Article

    Tue, 8 Nov 2005

    has won a repeat gas turbine upgrade order, worth approximately ..... Alba's Power Station 3. The upgrades comprise new rotor and stator ..... carriers. The benefits of the upgrade include significantly extended ..... Alba purchased its first DM upgrade in 2002 and a further two soon

  5. Westinghouse and KKL sign agreement for Leibstadt instrumentation and control upgrades

    Article

    Thu, 2 May 2002

    instrumentation and control upgrades for KKL's Leibstadt ..... instrumentation and control upgrade project submitted a ..... phase will be simulator upgrades , installation of a ..... architecture. Subsequent upgrades to the entire instrument ..... s first major I&C upgrade project for GE BWRs

  6. Exelon Upgrades Chicago Power Plant to Increase Grid Stability

    Article

    Fri, 19 Mar 2004

    Exelon Corporation, recently completed upgrades to its Southeast Chicago Energy Project ..... after a system outage. "This blackstart upgrade allows us to ensure we have the required ..... security to the ComEd system." In order to upgrade the plant, a number of projects had to

  7. CAE to perform large-scale upgrade of Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 simulator

    Article

    Wed, 7 May 2003

    simulation models. The upgrade , which will be ..... price for similar upgrades is approximately ..... vendors have performed upgrades on the device ..... simulator. "The upgrade will include new ..... large-scale upgrades of power-plant ..... plant simulator upgrade in the U.S. was

  8. FirstEnergy continues pollution control upgrades

    Article

    Tue, 12 Sep 2006

    Pennsylvania for maintenance and an upgrade of the pollution control system ..... organization that FirstEnergy plans to upgrade the turbines and scrubbers ..... reason behind the environmental upgrades and FirstEnergy plans to invest ..... environmental controls at Sammis, upgrade the existing scrubbers at Bruce