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Solar Energy Market Will Soar to $12 Billion by 2012
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| AgriMarketing.com (March 28, 2008) - A new report from SBI (Specialists in Business Information), The U.S. Solar Energy Market, indicates that several factors favorable to the industry will propel the market to triple digit growth, reaching $12 billion by 2012.
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by Chuck Frey on 3/28/2008 |
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NC Energy Services Announces Acquisition
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| Lift and Access (January 16, 2008) - NC Energy Services (NCES), a Northwest Capital Appreciation portfolio company, Seattle, Wash., and parent company of Northern Crane Services and A1 Crane Services, has announced the acquisition of Trans Tech Contracting, Canada's largest independent heavy hauling company. |
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by John Somers on 1/16/2008 |
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Agencies Propose Alternatives For California Transmission Lines
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| ENR (January 9, 2008) - The California Public Utilities Commission, in coordination with the US Bureau of Land Management, released a draft report assessing the environmental impact of San Diego Gas and Electric's proposed 150-mile, $1.3-billion Sunrise Powerlink transmission line.
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by Dick Dressler on 1/9/2008 |
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FutureGen to announce new clean coal plant location.
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| The New York Times (December 18, 2007) - The nation’s leading effort to build a coal-fired electric plant that will capture and store its carbon emissions will take a step forward when the consortium building it announces a location for the $1.5 billion plant. |
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by Dick Dressler on 12/18/2007 |
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Skanska Chief Stuart Graham To Step Down in Early 2008
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| ENR (December 10, 20070 - Stuart Graham, the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., native who has spent the last five years as chief of Stockholm-based contracting giant Skanska AB, announced Dec. 7 that he is resigning as president and CEO of the multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. |
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by Dick Dressler on 12/11/2007 |
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Bids collected for Huge Pipeline; North Slope Project could cost up to $40 Billion
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| ForConstructionPros.com (December 1, 2007) - Companies and agencies interested in what likely will be one of the largest energy projects in the world showed their hands Friday night when the state of Alaska unsealed bids to build a massive natural gas pipeline from the frozen North Slope to the lower 48.
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by Chuck Frey on 12/3/2007 |
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Victorville signs Contract to build Nation's First Hybrid Power Plant
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| ForConstructionPros.com (November 28, 2007) - Leaders from the city of Victorville, California and General Electric Co. signed a contract on Tuesday that marks the first step to build a $700 million hybrid power plant that combines natural gas and solar power generation technologies, the nation's first. |
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by Chuck Frey on 11/28/2007 |
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Utilities Executives Discuss Best-in-Class Practices for Optimizing Field Service Operations
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| Electric Energy Online (November 22, 2007) - Over 100 senior executives from the utilities industry gathered to discuss best-breed strategies to optimize their operations, assets and resources at the Utilities Field Service 2007 conference held at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
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by Chuck Frey on 11/27/2007 |
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Vacuum Systems Are Unsung Multi-Tools
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| Compact Equipment (November 2007) - Consider vacuum systems. These skid-mounted or trailered tools were originally designed to assist in directional drilling projects to suck up mud slurry, that goo resembling a Wendy’s chocolate Frosty bubbling out of the drill entry and exit holes. Contractors soon discovered that vacuum units could also perform excavation, such as potholing and exposing utilities. And then they realized the tools could help with site cleanup. And landscaping work. And sewer jetting. |
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by Chuck Frey on 11/27/2007 |
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Riverwalk Rehabilitation: CIPP Saves Georgia Landmark
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| Underground Construction (October 2007) - Unbeknownst to the hundreds of daily bikers, walkers and joggers along the famous Riverwalk in Columbus, GA, trouble was looming below the ground. Like many other well-established American cities, aging concrete sewer pipes are threatening the infrastructure, and repairs are needed to prevent a massive raw sewage overflow. |
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by Chuck Frey on 11/27/2007 |
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