NAPLES, Fla., – Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC) (hertzequip.com), a subsidiary of The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), has launched “Equipment Assurance,” its equipment extended service plan program, in the U.S. in partnership with Warrantech, a subsidiary of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. The Hertz Corporation. “At Hertz Equipment Sales, our equipment is purchased from some of […]
PEORIA, Ill. – To help customers around the world better understand the health of their equipment and optimize machine availability, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced it has entered into a technology and predictive analytics agreement with Uptake, provider of a dynamic analytics and insight platform for a wide array of industries, based in Chicago, […]
DETROIT – General Motors for the first time is procuring wind to power its manufacturing operations, enabling one of its Mexico facilities’ electricity needs to be run mostly on renewable energy. This addition of 34 megawatts of wind power allows GM to achieve its corporate goal of renewable energy use four years early. Construction of […]
Siemens has handed over the first North Sea grid connection, BorWin2, to its customer TenneT. The German-Dutch transmission grid operator has accepted the project following successful completion of test runs by Siemens. The grid connection is therefore now in commercial operation. The offshore platform of the BorWin2 grid connection is located around 100 kilometers off […]
DALLAS, Feb. 4, 2015 – AT&T* and GE are working together to create the next generation of smart energy solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things, helping to improve the way the energy industry works. The companies are jointly working on proof of concepts at the AT&T IoT Foundry in Plano, Texas. “Our innovations are […]
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA— —GE (NYSE: GE) has signed a cooperative research agreement with King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) to undertake cutting-edge research on enhancing the fuel flexibility of GE’s advanced gas turbines. The collaborative research, led by Saudi-based international professionals and students from KAUST along with GE’s global team, will focus on […]
DUBA, SAUDI ARABIA — Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has selected its long-time partner GE (NYSE:GE) for a project that marks Saudi Arabia’s first integration of a solar field with a combined-cycle plant and the first introduction of condensate as a gas turbine fuel. The landmark project, the ‘Green Duba’ Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Plant, will […]
ROSEMEAD, Calif., — Southern California Edison (SCE) has selected Holtec International to expand the San Onofre nuclear plant’s storage of used nuclear fuel in a robust underground facility. The contract with Holtec represents a major step in the decommissioning of the nuclear plant. It sets the stage to transfer San Onofre’s used fuel from steel-lined […]
URS and the LJUNGSTRÖM Division of ARVOS Group have signed an exclusive agreement to jointly develop, demonstrate, and market a novel approach to improve the energy efficiency of coal-fired power plants by 1 to 3 percent, with a corresponding reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As a consequence, power plants can realize significant operational cost […]
FOLSOM, Calif.– SynapSense®, a Panduit company and the leading provider of data center wireless monitoring and cooling control solutions, announced with Yahoo!, Inc. that their joint project in the Quincy, Washington data center saved 7.5 million kilowatt hours of energy annually. This is nearly double the original target announced in March 2014. “At Yahoo, we […]
