Largest Wind Project in Missouri to Feature GE 1.5-Megawatt Technology

In an effort to meet Missouri’s ongoing renewable energy goals, Wind Capital Group is developing the state’s largest wind project, Lost Creek, with the support of GE’s 1.5-megawatt wind turbine technology. The Lost Creek project supports Missouri’s Clean Air Initiative, which calls for 15 percent of the state’s power to be generated from renewable resources by the year 2021. When it enters commercial service in the spring of 2010, the project... Read more..

EDF Energies Nouvelles Signs Close to 1,000 MW of New Operations & Maintenance Contracts in the United States

As part of its Operations & Maintenance business, EDF Energies Nouvelles is announcing the signature, by its US subsidiary enXco, of four new contracts covering 981 MW in capacity with US electricity companies. These contracts lift the total capacity managed by EDF EN under operations & maintenance contracts in the United States to over 3,000 MW. enXco, leader in operation and maintenance services for wind farms in the United States, has... Read more..

Quanta Services Names James F. O’Neil President and COO

Quanta Services, Inc. announces that effective today James F. O’Neil, age 50, will serve as president and chief operating officer of the company. In this new position, O’Neil will oversee Quanta’s operations and strategic initiatives across the electric power, natural gas, renewable energy, telecommunications, broadband cable and wireless industries. O’Neil, who most recently served as a senior vice president, joined Quanta... Read more..

Shaw Adds Palisades Plant to its Entergy Nuclear Maintenance Contract

The Shaw Group Inc. announced today that the Maintenance Division of its Power Group has expanded its existing contract with Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, to provide nuclear maintenance services at the 798-megawatt Entergy Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven, Mich. With the addition of the Entergy Palisades plant, Shaw now provides routine maintenance/modifications, refueling maintenance/modifications... Read more..

Global Power Equipment Group Inc. Announces Plans to Release Financial Information

Global Power Equipment Group Inc. announced that it plans to release publicly audited financial statements for fiscal 2006 and 2007 and interim financial information for the first six months of 2008 by the end of November of this year. This release is part of a voluntary effort by Global Power to provide current financial information to the public on an ongoing basis. Oklahoma based Global Power Equipment Group Inc. is a leading design, engineering... Read more..

Cavico Applies Raise Climber and Reaming Technologies with Robbins 61R

Cavico Corp., a leading infrastructure development company in Vietnam, today announced that the Company’s subsidiary Cavico Bridge and Underground Construction purchased Robbins 61R, a state-of-the-art piece of equipment used in hydropower projects, for $1.1 million. The Robbins 61R is manufactured by Robbins of USA. It is considered to be one of the most updated pieces of equipment with the latest technologies used in the fields of mining, tunneling,... Read more..

Titan Energy Worldwide, Inc. to Supply Emergency Power Systems for Two Minneapolis Hotels

Titan Energy Worldwide, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Titan Energy Systems, has been awarded contracts to supply emergency generator systems to two major hotels in downtown Minneapolis. Titan Energy Systems is a full line sales and service provider of power generation equipment with headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The first contract was for a 400kW emergency engine generator to be installed at the newly constructed Embassy Suites hotel... Read more..

Baker Awarded IDOT Bridge Inspection Contract

Baker Engineering, Inc., an engineering unit of Michael Baker Corporation, has been awarded a bridge inspection contract by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). The seven-month contract requires independent condition inspections for two truss bridges and one plate girder bridge spanning the Illinois River near Peru, Illinois. Baker was selected as part of IDOT’s Quality Assurance Program to verify the safety of these long-span bridges. Baker’s... Read more..