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MAN supplying mixed medium- and high-speed engines for hybrid foundation/wind turbine installation vessels

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MAN Energy Solutions has won a fourth order to supply engines to Chinese shipbuilder, COSCO Heavy Industries, in Qidong for the construction of a second F-Class installation vessel used for the installation of offshore wind turbines and foundations. The previous three orders were for engines for two X-class and another F-class vessel.

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Mitsubishi Electric verifies VP-X high-efficiency turbine generator; first 900-MVA-class generator with indirect H2 cooling; 99% efficiency

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has successfully completed verification tests on its VP-X turbine generator for thermal power plants—the first generator in the 900-MVA class to use indirect hydrogen cooling for stator conductors. Until now, all large-capacity turbine generators in the 900 MVA class have relied on water-cooling.

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Iwatani, SG H2 & City of Lancaster to launch green hydrogen transportation eco-system

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Production does not depend on weather conditions and does not require as much land as solar- and wind-based projects, nor excessive water resources. SG H2’s hydrogen production facility employs a stacked modular design built for rapid scale and linear distributed expansion at lower capital costs.

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SunPower ceases residential installations, lays off 1,000

Baua Electric

SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR) just sent an email to its employees saying that it will “wind down” residential solar installations and lay off 1,000 employees. Moving forward, SunPower will focus our efforts on serving our best-in-class Dealer Network and installation partners.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility.

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ABS provides first approval in principle for floating Rankine cycle renewable energy plant

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Unlike wind, tidal or solar power the advanced design for this Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system can deliver constant output 24 hours a day. ABS has issued Approval in Principle for both the 25MW and 100MW designs; OTI could be eligible for ABS’ class notation A1, Floating Offshore Installation (FOI) Spar, SFA(30).

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis G90 Performance

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The G90 has limited wind and road noise partly due to the low 0.27 If you need to wind down at the end of the day, sit in the G90 and get completely immersed in this outstanding sound system. AWD will be compared to its keenest competition–the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Lexus LS and BMW 7 Series, which are all very nice luxury sedans.