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- Speakers to offer solutions on sustainability workforce.
- Electricity utility in talks with vendor about short-term generation…
- Auto workers face big decision on buyouts
- Speakers to offer solutions on sustainability workforce.
- US Power Plant Costs Up 130 Pct Since 2000 – CERA
Speakers to offer solutions on sustainability workforce.
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Electricity utility in talks with vendor about short-term generation…
Engineering News (press release) – Feb 15, 2008
Eskom has a number of alternative energy source options to support the national grid that is primarily dependent on the country?s coal-fired power stations. These options include renewable and nuclear sources as well as fuel and natural gas-fuelled internal combustion engine power plants. However according to Wärtsilä South Africa GM for power plants Arnaud Gouet the option that will provide the greatest amount of mega- watts in the shortest period is the construction of a heavy-fuel or natural- gas-fuelled power plant. Engineering News can report that Eskom is in discussions with global power plant supplier Wärtsilä to examine the possibility of constructing such a power station in South Africa. Wärtsilä is one of the leading global providers of decentralised power plants for utilities independent power producers municipalities and industry. Gouet explains that the company?s product range comprises oil- and multifuelled power plants with outputs ranging from 1 MW to 300 MW. ?We supply solutions for the developing world islands and remote areas with baseload power generation needs as well as supplying for grid stability intermediate and peaking needs for major utilities and for industries such as oil and gas mining textile cement as well as municipalities with self-generating needs? continues Gouet.
Auto workers face big decision on buyouts
mlive.com – Feb 15, 2008
She left the Ford-managed Automotive Components Holdings LLC plant last March 31. She’s still in the program today as a full-time student and is on track to graduate in April 2009. She says things haven’t always been easy – financially or emotionally – but she doesn’t regret her decision. “I always wanted more anyhow so this was a great chance for me” Aiuto-Haselschwerdt said. Aiuto-Haselschwerdt’s husband is a teacher in Dundee so they’ve been able to rely on his full-time salary along with a few odd jobs he’s taken on to make ends meet… Ypsilanti Township resident Ike dum knew exactly what he would do with his buyout. Days after he left his job as an engineer at Ford Motor Co. ‘s Dearborn design location he began building the foundation for his new business Regional Medical Supplies LLC. Following the footsteps of other family members in the medical industry dum immediately opened the store in Ypsilanti Township last year.
Speakers to offer solutions on sustainability workforce.
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US Power Plant Costs Up 130 Pct Since 2000 – CERA
planetark.com – Feb 15, 2008
While no nuclear plants have been built since the 1980s the index tracks how much one would have cost in 2000 and then again at the end of the third quarter of 2007. Ward said that since 2000 the costs for plants that emit more carbon dioxide have gone up the least. Nuclear power construction costs — mostly materials labor and engineering — have gone up 185 percent as shown by the index followed by wind power costs up 95 percent natural gas plants up 90 percent and coal-fired plants up 70 percent. Ward said more work is needed to determine why coal plant costs have gone up less. Asked whether this was because nuclear plants rely on a global market for scarce materials such as steel forgings from Japan he said maybe but he can’t be sure. Wind power also competes for materials such as turbines that are in short supply now but wind power advocates say that will be solved as more suppliers produce more of them. Yet even if the power industry made an effort to control its own costs it would still have to compete with other heavy industries for materials construction workers and engineers.