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31. Conquest Invests In 5 Greenfield Onshore Wind Parks Totalizing 43MW In The Flanders Region 1/24/2020

    Conquest, acting through the Conquest Sustainable Infrastructure fund, announced the transaction was closed after an exclusive agreement had been reached with ENGIE Electrabel

32. MHPS Technology Upgrades At Termocandelaria Improve Colombia’s Electric Sector Capacity, Reliability And Efficiency 1/23/2020

    Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Termocandelaria today announced an order for a new MHPS steam turbine and M501F4 gas turbine upgrades for the Cartagena power plant, along with an exclusive 15-year Long Term Service Agreement (LTSA)

33. Voith Hydro Awarded Single-Source Contract For BC Hydro’s Bridge River Powerhouse II Generator Replacement 1/23/2020

    BC Hydro has awarded a contract for work on the Bridge River Powerhouse II gener-ator replacement program to Voith Hydro under the two companies’ master service agreement

34. Burns & McDonnell Selected By NYPA For Major Control System Modernization Project At One Of Largest Hydropower Facilities In North America 1/23/2020

    Burns & McDonnell will serve as engineer-procure-construct (EPC) contractor for an extensive $134 million electrical control system upgrade and modernization project for the New York Power Authority's 2,525-megawatt (MW) Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant

35. Capital Dynamics And 8minute Solar Energy Partner On Breakthrough 400MWac Eland Solar & Storage Center 1/21/2020

    Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, today announced that its Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) business has entered into a development partnership with 8minute Solar Energy through the equity financing and acquisition of the breakthrough Eland Solar & Storage Center, a 400MWac solar and storage center project located in Kern County, California

36. Massive Battery Proposed Near Retired Navajo Coal Plant, Reports Daybreak Power 1/17/2020

    Daybreak Power Inc., a developer of gigawatt-scale energy storage projects, announced today that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has accepted the company’s application for a preliminary permit for its proposed 2,200 megawatt Navajo Energy Storage Station near Page, Ariz. 

37. Germany Launches One Of Europe’s Most Modern Gas-Fired Power Plants Replacing Coal-Fired Power Station 1/17/2020

    German municipal utility, Stadtwerke Kiel, launched one of Europe’s most modern and flexible gas engine-based combined heat and power (CHP) plants on the eastern shore of the Kieler Förde inlet in northern Germany

38. B&W Subsidiary Awarded Retrofit Boiler Equipment Installation Contract For U.S. Power Plant 1/16/2020

    Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., LLC (BWCC), a subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W), has been awarded a contract for more than $5M to install retrofit boiler equipment at a U.S. coal-fired power plant.

39. Westinghouse Wins Ovation™ I&C Modernization Project At Kozloduy Units 5&6 1/16/2020

    Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria to migrate the current Ovation™ platform-based information and control (I&C) systems at units 5&6 to its latest standard, bringing even more competitiveness and efficiency in the way these plants are operating.

40. Duke Energy Renewables Acquires 20 MWac Of Solar Projects In Georgia 1/15/2020

    Duke Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the final project in a portfolio developed with Inman Solar Inc., totaling 20 megawatts (MWac).