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Vaskiluodon Voima is replacing an automation system installed in 1989 with modern technology that further improves plant availability and safety.

OSI delivered a SCADA/GMS system to Basin Electric, one of the largest electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives in the United States.

Three factors are hindering the sales of full-conversion products in the converter market: high rare earth material prices, lagging offshore wind development and China’s high demand for doubly-fed converters.

ABB has been awarded a $2.765 million Department of Energy (DOE) Grant to develop technology to help the energy sector enhance its cybersecurity.

Metso will supply a complete control system retrofit for steam turbine and generator line 1 at Varme's Fana combined heating and power plant on the western coast of Norway.

Metso will supply a complete power plant, including BioGrate combustion technology, installation, training and commissioning.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The ability to improve manufacturing operations is growing with the application of software that can leverage lower cost computing. More than 30 years ago, ULTRAMAX Corporation commercialized an interesting software product to optimize the operating performance of industrial processes. I recently caught up with the Founder and CEO to learn more about the product and their philosophy and perspective of industrial process optimization.

Endress+Hauser invests 40 million dollars in new plants in expanding its plants for flow, level and pressure measurement engineering in Greenwood, Indiana.

The system will be used for grid simulation in the test and certification of PV (photovoltaic) inverters.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Duke Energy, the largest electric power company in the United States, has deployed National Instruments (NI) technology for monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics in their electric utilities in an effort to improve operations and optimize workforce activities.

By Patty Solberg, Powerit Solutions Utilities are increasingly adopting advanced demand response (DR) programs—and that represents a growing opportunity for energy-intensive businesses to reduce their overall electricity costs while contributing to corporate sustainability efforts. To participate successfully in these programs, energy-intensive businesses must have DR-ready automation.

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.

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.

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.

Emerson replaced aging turbine and balance-of-plant controls with its Ovation expert control system at Westport 5 Generating Station in Baltimore, Maryland.

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.

Investments in infrastructure in many part of the world caused continued demand for high power AC drives.

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.

The new office is in west Houston.

ABB provided three ACS800 wind converters and three matching Baldor induction generators.