SEA\LNG Expands Membership in U.S.
Houston-based Stabilis Energy has joined SEA\LNG, the multi-sector industry coalition which is seeking to accelerate the widespread adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel.Commenting on the development, Peter Keller, Chairman, SEA\LNG, said: "Welcoming Stabilis Energy as a new member demonstrates SEA\LNG’s continued commitment within the ever expanding North American LNG market. LNG is growing in importance in both the energy and marine bunkering markets.
Germany's EnBW mulls 200 MW of wind power addition
German energy utility EnBW plans this year to install 64 new wind turbines across 16 sites with a total generating capacity of more than 200 megawatts (MW), having doubled its wind power capacity in 2016, a top executive said in a newspaper interview due to be published on Saturday. Following are details from the interview with EnBW's head of generation portfolio development, Dirk Guesewell, due to be published in southwestern German newspaper "Heilbronner Stimme".
GE Signs Exelon In Its Largest Power-plant Software Deal
General Electric Co has signed up U.S. energy utility Exelon Corp to use its full software set to analyze and manage power plants in 48 states, the largest GE deployment in the power sector so far, the companies said on Tuesday. The Exelon deal, aimed at wringing greater efficiency from the business of generating electricity, marks another advance in GE's effort to lift annual digital technology revenue to $14 billion in 2020 from $5 billion in 2015, across its many industrial products.
Innogy to Push Windfarms, Electric Car Charging in U.S
Innogy, Germany's largest energy group, is looking at the United States market to expand its renewable energy and electric car charging business, its chief executive told German weekly Welt am Sonntag. "We want to invest around 6.5 billion euros between 2016 and 2018," Chief Executive Peter Terium told the paper, adding that investments will include grid networks and infrastructure but also wind farms in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and electric car charging stations in the United States.
DONG Hires Maersk Giant
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract for the jack-up rig Mærsk Giant with Danish energy utility DONG Energy. The firm contract covers 150 days of work on the Nini and Siri field in the Danish part of the North Sea. The estimated contract value is USD 16m. The contract is in direct continuation of the current contract with Talisman keeping Maersk Giant employed until March 2016. “We are very pleased to continue our good corporation with DONG Energy, one of our key customers in the North Sea,” says Claus V.
Siemens to Open Plant to Turn Electricity from Wind into Hydrogen
Siemens will on Thursday start an energy project to convert wind power into hydrogen for re-use as a general fuel or in natural gas pipelines. Siemens' electrolysis plant in Mainz is based on Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) technology, which allows the capture and storage of electricity into hydrogen. It said the plant can process up to 6 megawatts of electricity, making it the biggest PEM installation of its kind worldwide and able to supply 2,000 fuel cell cars.
S.Africa Power Demand to Outstrip Supply This Week
South African peak electricity demand will be higher than the capacity available from Tuesday to Friday, the country's energy utility Eskom said on Monday, raising the likelihood of more power cuts this week. The cash-strapped utility had earlier slashed 2,000 MW from the grid, widening controlled power outages in a bid to prevent demand from exceeding its capacity. Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
'Smart' Tech May Make Utilities More Vulnerable to Hackers
Last November, Felix Lindner came very close to shutting down the power supply of Ettlingen, a town of almost 40,000 people in the south of Germany. "We could have switched off everything: power, water, gas," Lindner, head of Berlin-based Recurity Labs, an IT security company, said. Fortunately for residents, Lindner's cyber attack on its energy utility, Stadtwerke Ettlingen, was simulated. But he revealed how easy it was to hack into the utility's network through its IT grid, which gave him access to its control room.
