David J Hayes, Deputy Secretary, US DOI will speak on the latest US DOI, BOEM announcement at the 3rd Annual Offshore Wind Power USA 2012

Company sees significant business growth throughout the entire region Leviton, a leading global manufacturer of electrical devices, has announced the expansion of the company’s Middle East and Africa (MEA) division.  As a direct response to the growing business demands in the region, Leviton has doubled its sales force in both the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) [...]

Dubai-based Emirates Electrical Engineering (EEE) has announced that it has bagged two major cabling projects from the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA). The first project involves the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of two 132kV cable circuits of 1.6 kilometres each between the CARX 400/132kV substation and Nad Al Hammar 132kV substation. A major [...]

Brazil will return to dominating the global ethanol market, but sharp growth in internal demand and challenges in adding new production in the country will mean less export supply availability through 2020. This is one result of Hart Energy’s newly released annual Global Biofuels Outlook, 2011-2020: Projecting Market Demand by Country, Region and Globally. The [...]

Jordan has shortlisted Russia’s Atomstroyexport, Canada’s AECL and a consortium of France’s Areva and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build the country’s first nuclear reactor, The National reported. “We will ask them to make some kind of adjustment for the reactors due to the Fukushima accident,” said Dr Abdulhalim Wreikat, a commissioner at the Jordan [...]

Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), Middle East’s third largest publicly traded utility, is about to close a deal for the purchase of a stake in one of Jordan’s power plants in Amman, The Jordan Times reported. The newspaper quoted Fahd Hamad Al Mohannadi, QEWC general manager, as saying that the transaction is due to [...]

The Kingdom of Jordan is set to receive bids for the country’s first wind farm next month, Jordan Times reported. The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan,  was reported to say that eight shortlisted international firms will submit bids in July for the planned Fujeij project,  a 90MW wind farm slated for the [...]

Sabiya power plant activates six GE gas turbines to meet summer peak loads

Plans to install a test facility for post-combustion CO2 capture technologies at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has invited eighteen power developers to a pre-bid conference for the Hassyan 1 Independent Power Project, held at Dubai’s Grand Hyatt Hotel.