A new wind turbine blade design for low-speed wind sites promises to increase by 20-fold the available land area that can economically developed for wind energy in the US, according to its developers Sandia National Laboratories and yacht & blade specialist Knight & Carver.
Yuhuan Power International, which operates China's first 1,000MW/unit ultra-supercritical coal-fired plant, has awarded Emerson Process Management a "supplier award of excellence" for the implementation of Emerson's Ovation expert control system at the plant.
Babcock & Wilcox, in collaboration with American Air Liquide, will shortly begin testing a promising new technology to help coal-fired power plants capture emissions of CO2.