Energy Update
The nation’s energy sector employed 6.5 million Americans in 2017, up 133,000 jobs from the year prior, according to a comprehensive report released today from the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO). This two percent growth rate exceeded the national average of 1.7 percent.
A recent report by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI), established by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, and the National Association of State Energy Officials confirms that the energy sector as a whole grew 2 percent last year, which is .3 percent more than the national job growth percentage of 1.7 percent.
Solar PV manufacturer Central Electronics Ltd. in Uttar Pradesh, India, has commissioned India’s first 1-MW microgrid featuring a CPS-1000 inverter from Burlington, Vt.-based Dynapower.
The new hydrogen generation system has been launched during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium held at the University of California, Riverside, US.
Developed in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the STARS, the new generation system makes use of sunlight to convert natural gas and water into hydrogen and capture the carbon dioxide (CO2) to prevent carbon emissions.
The Trump administration is weighing a broad array of strategies for keeping coal and nuclear power plants online as a matter of national security, with options ranging from invoking a 68-year-old law to a three-year-old one, according to a senior Energy Department official.
Tharisa has acquired a 90% shareholding in Salene Chrome Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited (Salene) at the par value thereof from the Leto Settlement Trust (Leto), a related party being the beneficial shareholder of Medway Developments Limited, a material shareholder in Tharisa.
The new Gamesa Electric technology and manufacturing center comprises two test benches for testing and validating systems with capacity of up to 10MW, for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV), as well as for energy storage purposes.
Siemens Games said it has invested more than €3m in the facility, which upgrades and expands an existing plant. The facility employs 183 people.
The new truck joins the existing i-series truck family of Sandvik TH551i and Sandvik TH663i, launched in July 2017.
The new Sandvik TH545i is designed for intelligent mine operations and improved productivity. Compared to its predecessor the Sandvik TH540, the truck offers a significant capacity increase by carrying five tonnes more than the Sandvik TH540.
The firm said that the €100m ($120m) project has also concluded debt financing with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and Finnvera, the Finnish state-owned specialized financing company.
Wärtsilä will be the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the LNG terminal, which is claimed to be the third of its kind in the country.
As part of this effort, the government plans to introduce measures to streamline and improve the regulation process for shale gas planning applications to ensure decisions are made more quickly.
The measures will include setting up a Shale Environmental Regulator and new Planning Brokerage Service to focus exclusively on the planning process. It will have no role in the consideration or determination of planning applications.
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