2012-4-25
With more European countries harnessing their hydropower resources to stabilize their transmission grids and support greater alternative energy production, GE Energy’s (NYSE: GE) Power Conversion business today announced it will supply its advanced power conversion technology to Voith for the new Frades II pumped-storage hydropower plant. The facility is being built on the left bank of the Cávado River in the Braga region of northern Portugal.
GE Energy Power Conversion business was the successful tenderer for the supply of the major elements of power, control and automation equipment in the mid-life upgrade of a Morris container handling ship-to-shore crane at the port of Felixstowe. Strategically located in south east England, Felixstowe is the United Kingdom’s largest container port and is among the largest in Europe.
Steel production doubled in Turkey from 2001 to 2010 , and currently new projects are launched to establish new steel capacities and modernize existing ones. They will allow Turkey to face strong domestic consumption and answer the high international demand for Turkish steel products.
Building on a commitment to provide enhanced levels of responsiveness and support for customers in Australia, power conversion specialist Converteam, a GE Energy (NYSE: GE) business, today celebrated the opening of its new commercial and technical support office in Sydney.
Converteam was recently chosen by EBG MedAustron GmbH, an Austrian government owned corporation, for the pulsed power supply for a particle accelerator dedicated to cancer treatment for the MedAustron medical center. This cancer therapy treatment center, with clinical and non-clinical research, is under construction in Wiener Neustadt County of Lower Austria.