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  • Metso to provide hydro power plant automation in Switzerland

    Metso automation systems will be used for the turbine control, sluice gate control, excitation control, vibration monitoring as well as for a power plant/river training simulator.
    By: Metso Automation
    05 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Yokogawa to supply WT310 Power Meter to University of Illinois

    The Power Meter will be a key test tool for Undergraduate and Graduate testing laboratories in the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Building under development.
    By: Yokogawa Corporation of America
    05 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to build substation for soccer World Cup

    ABB will design, supply, install and commission a new indoor substation to replace a 40-year-old installation in Grajau, near the Maracanã stadium in Brazil.
    By: ABB
    04 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson controls Exelon Generation unit

    Emerson replaced aging turbine and balance-of-plant controls with its Ovation expert control system at Westport 5 Generating Station in Baltimore, Maryland.
    By: Emerson
    21 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Cressall NERS power resistors pass Saudi test

    As part of a project to supply Neutral Earthing Resistors (NER) to be used by the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), Cressall has successfully conducted pre-qualification testing at an accredited laboratory CESI in Milan.
    12 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Infrastructure Investments drive High Power AC Drives Business

    Investments in infrastructure in many part of the world caused continued demand for high power AC drives.
    09 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB to power copper mine in Zambia

    ABB will provide a new substation and upgrade an existing one at Africa’s biggest copper mine, being built in the northwestern province of the country.
    By: ABB
    08 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PAS opens additional Houston office

    The new office is in west Houston.
    By: PAS Inc.
    06 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB supports wind turbine technology at SWiFT facility in Texas

    ABB provided three ACS800 wind converters and three matching Baldor induction generators.
    By: ABB
    02 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell Process Solutions Shares Service Risk

    By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Honeywell User Group (HUG) 2013 conference, Honeywell announced new services under the Assurance 360 program for owners of Honeywell systems. The overall goal of these programs is a reduction of unplanned events, faster problem resolution, and better plant performance.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    02 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson to control hydropower plants in Brazil

    Emerson will supply Ovation control and SCADA technology for controls of multiple hydropower plants and a dispatch center to AES Tietê in Brazil.
    By: Emerson
    30 July, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • ABB Acquires Power-One

    Power-One is a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions.
    By: ABB
    26 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to supply valves for geothermal power plant in Kenya

    The valves will control the steamy process flow coming from the boreholes drilled into the ground.
    By: Metso Automation
    23 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Hollysys to provide Profibus DCS to power plant in China

    The DCS will control more than 13,000 points and ProfiBus will control 3,600 distributed devices for two 1GW ultra-supercritical thermal power generating units at the Fujian Hongshan Thermal Power Plant.
    By: Hollysys
    16 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Schneider Electric buying Invensys?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been speculation for a long time that the Invensys automaton business would be sold. Now Schneider Electric has made a 3.3 billion pound ($5 billion) takeover proposal for Invensys.
    12 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Frost & Sullivan comments on Schneider purchase of Invensys

    Frost & Sullivan says Schneider stands to benefit the most from the deal, especially in the automation market.
    12 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson controls Arkansas coal plant

    The 600-MW plant is the first ultra-supercritical power plant built in the United States. Emerson worked with the SWEPCO team to develop the sophisticated logic needed to integrate controls for the ultra-supercritical boiler into the overall plant automation architecture.
    By: Emerson
    11 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ETAP Opens Brazil Office

    ETAP’s office is located in Ribeirão Prêto, Brazil, and managed by Leandro Toniello, Business Development Manager.
    09 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Cooper Bussmann releases FC2 App for Fault Current Calculations

    Available for all Apple iPhones and iPads, and Android mobile devices, the FC2 mobile app quickly and easily determines available fault current levels anywhere in an electrical distribution system.
    09 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • US DOE uses Perle Terminal Servers to meet NERC rules

    Perle Electric Utility Terminal Servers provide secure remote user authentication and management capabilities for Phasor Measurement Units (PMU’s) that keep the smart grid stable.
    By: Perle Systems
    08 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
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