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Siemens Reduces Production of Large Gas Turbines

November 10, 2014 by Karen Henry

Siemens is looking at ways to reduce its production capacity of large gas turbines, one of the manufacturer’s biggest sales contributors, according to Bloomberg. While Siemens said the reduction is due to industry-wide overcapacity, its competitor General Electric said that it does not plan to cut gas turbine output. In ... Read more »

Microsoft Opens ‘Off-Grid’ Data Center

November 7, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Microsoft dedicated its new zero-carbon, waste-to-energy-powered data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. Microsoft worked with Siemens Energy Management and FuelCell Energy on the data center that will operate completely off the grid. The data center uses biogas methane produced by common waste byproducts at the nearby Dry Creek wastewater facility. Anaerobic ... Read more »

Companies Urge EU to Adopt Binding 40% Energy Efficiency Target

October 23, 2014October 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Unilever, Philips, Schneider Electric and Siemens are among the 49 companies (see image) that have signed a letter to European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, urging the council to set a binding energy efficiency target of at least 40 percent. European Union member states will meet tomorrow and Friday to ... Read more »

Danish Island Serves as Testbed for Integrating Renewables into Grid

October 21, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

The biggest smart grid project in Europe – the EcoGrid pilot – is being conducted on the Danish island of Bornholm. The project is trying to coordinate the fluctuations in the price of electricity with the volume of renewable energy available at five minute intervals, reports PennEnergy. In order to ... Read more »

GE, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Nike Cut from DJSI World

September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Amgen, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and GlaxoSmithKline are among the new additions to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World. Meanwhile Bank of America, General Electric, McDonald’s, Starbucks and Nike are among the companies to get cut from the DJSI World this year. These companies did, however, make the North American ... Read more »

Siemens eHighway Expected to Cut Ports’ CO2 Emissions

August 11, 2014August 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Siemens has been selected by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to install an eHighway system near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two largest ports in the US. Siemens eHighway is the electrification of select highway lanes via a catenary system that supplies trucks ... Read more »

Siemens Provides Power Distribution System for Steel Tube Facility

May 15, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The Benteler Group hired Siemens to supply a primary substation and power distribution system for its new seamless steel tube factory in Caddo Parish, La. Scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2015, the plant will have an annual production capacity of 320,000 tons of steel tubes. Siemens will ... Read more »

Texas Town Signs ESPC with Siemens

May 12, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Through an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) with Siemens, the town of Crystal City, Texas, is expected to realize energy and operational costs savings as well as revenue increases of an estimated $200,000 annually. Crystal City, upgrades will consist of: -Replacing more than 2,600 outdated water meters with automatic meter ... Read more »

Siemens Pays $1.3B for Rolls-Royce Energy Gas Turbine Business

May 8, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Siemens is acquiring the Rolls-Royce Energy aero-derivative gas turbine and compressor business, thereby strengthening its position in decentralized power generation as well as its position in the oil and gas industry. The purchase price is about $1.3 billion, and the transaction is expected to close before the end of December ... Read more »

Acquisitions: Foster Wheeler and Siemens, Abengoa and GreenTech

May 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Power Group has finalized the acquisition of the Siemens Environmental Systems and Services business that supplies and services clean air technologies for use in power plants and industrial facilities. The Siemens Environmental Systems and Services purchase includes assets of the former Wheelabrator Air Pollution ... Read more »

Alstom Ponders GE’s $13.8B Offer

May 1, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The board of directors of France-based Alstom has received a binding offer from General Electric (GE) to acquire its energy activities for $13.82 billion, encompassing its thermal power, renewable power and grid sectors, as well as corporate and shared services. With 65,000 employees, these businesses registered $19.16 billion in sales ... Read more »

Siemens, HP Ally for Holistic Data Center Management

April 30, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Siemens has joined the HP AllianceONE Partner Program for a joint solution, combining HP’s Converged Management Consulting Services and Siemens’ Datacenter Clarity LC DCIM. Siemens is working with HP to directly address the problem of data center owners having to use multiple providers of disparate management systems and having to ... Read more »

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