Vattenfall Sells Hillerod CHP Station

Vattenfall has signed a deal to sell Hillerød Combined Heat and Power Station in Denmark The buyer of the CHP station and the northbound heat transmission line is Hillerød Forsyning. Simultaneously a deal has been struck with Vestforbrænding on buying a southbound heat transmission line from Hillerød CHP station. Hillerød Forsyning is expected to take over the station formally during the first months of 2011. Vattenfall acquired Hillerød CHP... Read more..

Atlas Copco to Supply Worlds First Floating LNG Plant

Atlas Copco has won a multi-million USD contract to supply six turboexpander compressors for a new type of application related to liquefied natural gas (LNG). The customer, Norway-based KANFA Aragon A.S., part of the Sevan Marine Group, will use the equipment for the world’s first floating natural gas liquefaction plant. Installed aboard a so-called M-flex storage vessel, the six turboexpander compressors will be a driving force at the plant, used... Read more..

Saft and ABB : New High Voltage Li-ion Battery System

Saft and ABB have developed the world’s first high voltage Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery system designed to improve the stability of power distribution grids. The new system combines dynamic energy storage provided by Saft’s 5.2 kV battery, which will help respond to disruptions in the grid, with ABB’s SVC (Static Var Compensation) Light technology for dynamic voltage control. Potential applications include industries with high short... Read more..

Chemical Engineering Degree Now Available at Kettering University

Kettering University in Flint, Mich., now offers students an opportunity to prepare for the fast-growing field of Chemical Engineering with a new academic degree program. Chemical Engineering will play a central role in solving the major problems confronting the U.S. economy including energy, health care, the state of the environment and the emergence of nanotechnology. Kettering’s Chemical Engineering (CHME) degree is an interdisciplinary program.... Read more..

Vattenfall Acquires Britain’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall has acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project off Margate, Kent, for the sum of GBP 35 million (SEK 435 million). On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of some 300 MW. This will be almost three times the size of Lillgrund, Vattenfall’s largest wind farm in Sweden to date, and about the same size as Horns Rev in Denmark, in which Vattenfall has a majority stake. Vattenfall acquired the rights to build Thanet Offshore... Read more..

Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables Join Forces for Round Three

Two giants of the renewables industry, Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables, have entered into partnership to make joint bids in the third round of offshore wind farm development in the UK. Their common goal is to establish 6,000 MW of installed wind power capacity, corresponding to enough clean green energy to power four million homes by 2020. ScottishPower Renewables, part of the world’s largest wind power operator and developer, Iberdrola... Read more..

Vattenfall AB acquires Eclipse Energy UK PLC

Vattenfall is Europe’s fifth largest generator of electricity and the largest producer of heat, and works in all parts of the electricity value chain. In the UK, Vattenfall owns and operates the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm, which has a capacity of 90 MW. It is also the world’s second largest offshore wind power operator, with a 60 per cent stake in Horns Rev, the world’s largest offshore wind facility off Denmark’s Jutland Peninsula (160... Read more..

Morphic Technologies: Completed Rights Issue Provides Morphic SEK 393m

The preliminary result of Morphic Technologies AB’s rights issue, for which the subscription period ended 13 October 2008, shows that approximately 78 percent of the offered shares have been subscribed for with and without subscription rights. The remaining shares, equivalent to approximately 22 percent of the offered shares, are subscribed for by the syndicate of investors with which Morphic has signed an agreement regarding rights issue guarantee.... Read more..

Vattenfall Acquires AMEC Wind Energy ltd

Vattenfall AB, the fifth largest electricity generator in Europe, today announced the acquisition of 100% of AMEC Wind Energy Limited (‘AMEC Wind’), a major UK developer of commercial wind farms for cash consideration of around 126.6 million GBP (equalling about 1.6 billion SEK or 160 million EUR). This move positions Vattenfall to further expand its presence in the UK market and to advance its efforts to make electricity clean by reducing emissions... Read more..

VIASPACE Reports That Key Fuel Cell Patent in Europe, Licensed by VIASPACE Subsidiary, Has Been Issued to Caltech

VIASPACE Inc., announced today that a key Caltech direct methanol fuel cell patent was granted in Europe, specifically Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden. This is patent EP 0 755 576 B1 for an organic fuel cell and methods of operation thereof and methods of manufacture thereof. The patent has been licensed from Caltech and the University of Southern California by VIASPACE subsidiary, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation... Read more..