Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Bendygo Partners with PURE to Provide Solar Panel Installations

SOLAR DAILY
Bendygo Partners with PURE to Provide Solar Panel Installations
Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Bendygo is announcing it is partnering with PURE Energies to provide solar panel installation all across Ontario. Bendygo is pleased to announce a business partnership with PURE Energies, an internationally recognized solar power panel installer. Bendygo has been tasked by PURE Energies with providing its solar panel installation expertise in an effort to help it keep up with increased bus ... more


AREVA technologies recognize by the US Nuclear Energy Institute

CIVIL NUCLEAR
AREVA technologies recognize by the US Nuclear Energy Institute
Paris (SPX) May 26, 2014 - AREVA's technologies received four awards through its customers at the Top Industry Practice Awards (TIP Awards) ceremony organized by the American Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). For the fifth consecutive year, AREVA has been awarded the B. Ralph Sylvia "Best of the Best" award through utility customer, Dominion, for the lifetime extension project of the Surry Power Station, Virginia. ... more


Oil and gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communities

ENERGY TECH
Oil and gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communities
Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Conventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities, and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may accelerate these changes, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The commonwealth's Northern Tier - one of the largest blocks of Eastern deciduous forest in the entire Appalachian region - is an important b ... more


Abengoa builds world's largest single-axis PV plant

SOLAR DAILY
Abengoa builds world's largest single-axis PV plant
Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Abengoa has completed construction of Mount Signal Solar, the 206 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic plant in the city of Calexico, south east of California. Abengoa was responsible for the engineering, construction and commissioning of the plant for Silver Ridge Power, one of the largest photovoltaic operators in the world. The project covers 801 hectares and includes more than three million phot ... more


AREVA to monitor nuclear reactor fluid systems

CIVIL NUCLEAR
AREVA to monitor nuclear reactor fluid systems
Paris (SPX) May 26, 2014 - AREVA has signed an agreement with the American engineering firm NUCCORP Inc. to be the exclusive supplier of the Nuclear Grade Air Trap (NGAT) technology to the nuclear industry. This device passively monitors and regulates accumulated air and gas in certain nuclear plants safety systems. The accumulation of air and gas may compromise the proper operation of these systems essential for sa ... more


What if Roads Were Made of Solar PV Panels?

SOLAR DAILY
What if Roads Were Made of Solar PV Panels?
Sandpoint ID (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Four years ago, Scott and Julie Brusaw announced their provocative concept of "Solar Roadways," a system of modular 'pavement' solar panels that could be installed directly onto roads, parking lots, driveways, bike paths, and "literally any surface under the sun." The idea got traction (no pun intended) and since then, the Brusaws have received two rounds of funding from the Federal Highway Admi ... more


Combination of weak chemical forces strengthens new imaging system

INTERNET SPACE
Combination of weak chemical forces strengthens new imaging system
Urbana IL (SPX) May 26, 2014 - When Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Hyunjoon Kong, graduate student Cartney Smith, and colleagues set out to improve MR imaging (MRI), they turned current contrast agent technology on its head-or rather, they turned it inside out. The new compound they designed in collaboration with Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry Steven C. Zimmerman is not only more effective, b ... more