The News Review:
- hio GM plant closing to leave 1080 workers idle
- Siemens wins $2.1 bln Iraqi power plant deal
- Texas can take lessons from Finland’s nuclear power plant delays
- Siemens installs photovoltaic plant for climate-friendly power …
hio GM plant closing to leave 1080 workers idle
The Associated Press
‘s financial woes have GM workers around the country worrying about what life without GM might be like. The 1080 hourly workers at the automaker’s sport utility plant in this Dayton suburb are about to find out. For them life without GM begins Tuesday. That’s when the automaker pulls the plug on the plant that over the past 27 years has spit out cars trucks and SUVs helped pay mortgages and college educations and provided a security blanket in turbulent times. “The news was devastating at first” said Jackie Wilson a 39-year-old mother who has spent 15 years at the plant. “It’s all I’ve known.
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Siemens wins $2.1 bln Iraqi power plant deal
Reuters
5billion euro ($2. 09 billion) contract from the Iraqi governmentone of its biggest orders from the Middle East the Germanengineering conglomerate said on Monday. The company said it would supply 16 gas turbines for powerplants with a capacity of 3150 megawatts (MW) in Rumaila-BasraTaza-Kirkuk Dibis-Kirkuk Baiji and Sadder-Baghdad. Years of war sanctions and neglect have battered Iraq’spower grid and the country suffers chronic power shortages. Thecapital Baghdad receives only a few hours of electricity a day.
Texas can take lessons from Finland’s nuclear power plant delays
Dallas Morning News TX
That means cost overruns that have been endemic in building nuclear power plants could drive customers away. Ultimately they could ruin a utility. TV sought to avoid that risk by signing a contract with the builders Areva NP of France and Siemens AG of Germany that fixes the price of the lkiluoto plant. TV senior vice president Anneli Nikula said the heart of the problem was Areva’s failure to have its design and engineering documents ready when construction began in 2005. Until those documents are approved by TV and Finland’s nuclear regulatory agency construction will reach a point where it can’t move ahead. “There are hundreds of thousands of documents to check” she said. Areva argues that it is the utility’s fault for taking too long to approve the plans.
Siemens installs photovoltaic plant for climate-friendly power …
Energy Business Review
The solar plant is operated by Siemens Real Estate. Siemens Energy has designed and constructed the photovoltaic system and was also responsible for commissioning. Rene Umlauft CE of the renewable energy division at Siemens said: “The solar power plant in Forchheim is an important flagship project for us. With the solar modules providing an electrical efficiency of over 18% the unit is extremely powerful and profitable.