Tag Archives: electricity

Direct Energy Business won a potential three-year, $40.8M contract to provide retail electricity and incidental and ancillary services to a Department of Energy laboratory focused on particle physics and accelerators.

AECOM and Colorado’s State Department of Transportation have teamed up to develop an energy-transfer highway segment that would charge electric-powered trucks through a coil transmission system, TruckingInfo reported Friday. Jack Roberts writes the project will test an electric grid embedded in a highway stretch designed to transmit electricity to electric-powered vehicles …

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to manage the construction works for EDF Energy’s nuclear power station project in Somerset, U.K. EDF will kick off the building, marine and civil works on the construction site after it had reached a deal with the U.K. government for the Hinkley Point C nuclear …

Dominion Virginia Power and the Department of the Navy plan to jointly establish a 21-megawatt direct current solar facility at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. The Navy said Tuesday Dominion will seek approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission for the project this summer and expects the facility to be fully constructed and operational by late …

AECOM will provide engineering support services to help build and operate a utility gas infrastructure in Alaska under an agreement with Alaska Intrastate Gas Co. The project will supply piped propane air mixture-based fuel to 17 southeastern communities in Alaska in order to meet the residents’ electricity generation, heating and …

Boeing has handed to the U.S. Navy a system the company designed to store fuel cell energy derived from solar, wind and other renewable resources. The service branch will install the system on its microgrid at a Naval Facilities Engineering Command facility in California to test the platform’s capability to supply electricity for …

L-3 Communications has been awarded a $7.1 million contract modification to produce energy storage technologies for the U.S. Navy’s planned electromagnetic railgun, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes L-3 will build four containerized battery energy storage and charging systems for the railgun pulsed power system in San …

Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted field tests on a power generation system designed to help U.S. deployed troops to produce electricity out of surplus materials. The company said Thursday its Rocket Shop defense advanced programs unit developed the Hybrid Renewable Multifuel Power Generator for the U.S. Navy‘s Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare …

Constellation NewEnergy has won a $7 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide electricity and ancillary services to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday Constellation will perform work in Maryland and Texas through Jan. 31, 2017. DLA received seven offers for the contract. Constellation NewEnergy, an Exelon company, provides power, …

E-Finity Distributed Generation has selected Capstone Turbine to produce microturbine technology for use in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Virginia-based combined heat and power plant. Capstone will design a C1000 Power Package to feed electricity into the Marine Corps base’s distribution grid, Capstone said Wednesday. The power plant is scheduled to …

A recent International Data Corp. report predicts government spending worldwide on Internet of Things platforms to hit $1.2 trillion in the next two years, according to an article published Monday on Cisco‘s website. Ruthbea Clarke, smart cities research director at IDC, said transportation, energy, environment and tourism, and public safety are the four public …

The Greater Virginia Green Building Council has selected RMF Engineering to receive a “Best Commercial Project” award in recognition of the company’s work to update the heating, air conditioning and other utility systems at the former Martha Jefferson Hospital site in Charlottesville for the CFA Institute. RMF also refreshed the fire protection, plumbing and electrical …

Jacobs Engineering Group has completed a study on how redeemable biomass electricity credits for usage in Riau, Indonesia. The project is a collaboration with Universitas Muhammadiyah in Riau, Sumatra with financial backing provided by the Energy and Environment Partnership Indonesia (EEP) and additional efforts supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Honeywell and Texas-based CPS Energy have kicked off a two-year program that seeks to help local business facilities manage their electricity costs by implementing smart grid technology. CPS Energy will also leverage Honeywell’s automated demand response tools and services for the municipal utility to maintain the stability of Texas’ power grid during …

CGI Group has won an eight-year, $120 million contract to help Smart DCC Ltd. deploy 53 million smart meters throughout the U.K. between 2015 and 2020. Smart DDC selected CGI to design, setup and operate a system that will work to help utilities acquire and deliver information to citizens for bill management and …