Tag: power plant

The power plant market is somewhat of a chess game for valve suppliers. Suppliers should think of their position this way because winning requires analyzing all the moves from the opposition while grasping all the strategic options.

An industrial wonder of the world, Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, located near Boulder City, Nevada, on the border of Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, it was originally known as Boulder Dam. It was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. By Sarah Bradley & Angelica Pajkovic.

JERA Co., Inc. (JERA), through its wholly owned subsidiary JERA Americas Inc. (JERA Americas), has entered into an agreement with Starwood Energy Group to acquire a 50% equity interest in three natural gas-fired thermal power generation plants (the “Compass Portfolio”) in the northeastern United States.

Valcor Engineering, a designer and manufacturer of solenoid valves and flow control components for liquids and gases, announced that they have acquired the rights to manufacture and sell CU Services products.

Bechtel, a project management, engineering, procurement, and construction company, has completed the Hummel Station Power Plant in Shamokin Dam, Pa.

Columbia Generating Station is a nuclear commercial energy facility owned and operated by Energy Northwest, a Washington state, not-for-profit joint operating agency.

Ringo Válvulas has finished the design, manufacturing and testing of self operated control valves for the Air Supply Emergency System for the actuators of certain critical valves of the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant in Spain.

Rotork IQ intelligent electric valve actuators with Rotork Pakscan two-wire digital control provide key valve automation functions for two solar power plants in Spain.

Metso, a world leading industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries, with many locations throughout the Americas, has signed an agreement on a comprehensive valve delivery for Kilpilahti Power Plant in Porvoo, Finland.

NTE Energy officials said recently they have begun the permitting process to build the Reidsville Energy Center in Rockingham County, North Carolina.