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Accenture, Siemens Form Smart Grid JV

April 10, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Accenture and Siemens have formed a joint venture company called OMNETRIC Group, which will bring together Siemens’ smart grid products with Accenture’s technology consulting and systems integration. The JV will provide utilities with smart grid services focused on data management and systems integration to improve energy efficiency and grid operations. ... Read more »

Top 6 in Building Energy Management Software

April 8, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

In the global market for building energy management software, six suppliers – Envizi, eSight, IBM, Schneider Electric, Siemens and Verisae – are market leaders, according to independent analyst firm Verdantix. Verdantix’s report, Green Quadrant Building Energy Management Software 2014, compares 14 building energy management applications to help corporate buyers select ... Read more »

OpenADR Top of Mind at DistribuTECH

March 10, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Automated demand response (ADR) was a hot topic at the recent DistribuTECH conference in San Antonio, according to Smart Grid News. It’s not just vendors that focus on demand response from the utility perspective that consider the business ripe with opportunities; there is also a whole new breed of energy ... Read more »

GSA Awards Siemens $37M Energy Savings Performance Contract

February 14, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The General Services Administration (GSA) recently awarded a $37.2 million task order to Siemens Government Technologies to implement energy efficiency upgrades in its Great Lakes Region (Region 5). Using an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) from the Department of Energy, the cost of the project will be funded by the ... Read more »

In the Market for an $11M Steam Turbine?

February 10, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

eSolar has retained auction company Heritage Global Partners to manage the March 4 sale of its Siemens Industrial Steam Turbine SST-400, which originally sold for in excess of $11 million, has never been run and is being offered to the highest bidder in its original crating. In addition to usage ... Read more »

Siemens Becomes Sponsor Member of OpenADR Alliance

December 13, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

Siemens has become a sponsor member of the OpenADR Alliance. As such, Siemens joins the board of directors comprised of Southern California Edison, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), AutoGrid, EnerNOC and Honeywell. The Alliance has more than 100 members. Siemens says OpenADR is critical in maximizing its ... Read more »

Siemens Awarded Ballast Water Technology Patent

December 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Patent Office has awarded Siemens Water Technologies a patent for a system and method to control biofouling of filters used as a first stage of treating ballast water in its SeaCure Ballast Water Management System. The patent, titled Method and System for Biofouling Control of Shipboard Components (US ... Read more »

A ‘Floating’ Combined Cycle Power Plant

December 11, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

A group of companies in Korea is working on a power generating station aboard a ship. Polaris Shipping, Korea Midland Power, Hyundai Heavy Industries, and Siemens Energy Solutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop Mobile Powership, an integration of shipbuilding and power generating technology in which a power generating ... Read more »

Only 10% of Firms Link CR Performance to Compensation

December 9, 2013December 9, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Even though 75 percent of the world’s 250 largest companies acknowledge that environmental and social “megaforces” such as resource scarcity and climate put their businesses at risk, only 10 percent link corporate responsibility performance to remuneration, according to a report by KPMG. The findings from the KPMG Survey of Corporate ... Read more »

Universities Advance More Renewables in Grid

November 8, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

The University of Central Florida (UCF) has been awarded $3.2 million to lead one of four national consortia to develop distributed technologies to prepare for a national shift from traditional sources of electricity to renewables such as solar and wind. UCF’s winning proposal, Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Siemens, GE, Calgon Carbon, Cadmus, Ecolab

November 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

AEA Investors has signed an agreement to acquire the municipal, industrial and services water and wastewater treatment operations and assets of Siemens Water Technologies for €640 million ($881 million). AEA says the company will continue to focus on municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment equipment and services. Clarcor has ... Read more »

Siemens, Texas A&M to Commercialize Cost-Saving Remediation Treatment

October 25, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Siemens Water Technologies and Texas A&M AgriLife Research have agreed to continue to develop and commercialize a chemical-based technology that the organizations say will more efficiently and cost-effectively remove heavy metals from water and wastewater at power utility, mining, refinery and remediation sites. In a single process unaffected by temperature ... Read more »

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