Tag: Solar
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Canada’s Algonquin to buy controlling stake in Atlantica Yield
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp of Canada is to acquire 25 per cent of Atlantica Yield, a business of long-term contracted assets owned by Abengoa.
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IDA partners with Global Solar Council to promote solar desalination
The International Desalination Association (IDA) and Global Solar Council have pledged to promote desalination technologies powered by solar energy.
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Q&A: Fisia’s Silvio Oliva on why the Italian firm is expanding into Latin America
Fisia Italimpianti managing director Silvio Oliva says that the combination of demand for water treatment and desalination in Latin America makes the region a interesting prospect for investment.
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US DoE invites bids for R&D funding in solar desalination
The US Department of Energy is to award $15 million across up to 10 projects to research solar desalination technology, as part of its SunShot initiative.
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BHP and Coldeco push forward Chilean desal projects
Two major desalination projects to support the copper mining industry in Chile are moving ahead, reports Reuters.
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Pumps-as-a-service: the future beckons
On 1 May 2017, Fredrik Ostbye, a Swedish entrepreneur with a track record of digital product development, joined the 72-year old Danish pumps manufacturer Grundfos in the newly created role of group vice president and head of digital transformation.
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Adsorption pilot phase two will focus on ZLD
MEDAD Technologies, a specialist in adsorption, has worked to commercialise a multi-effect distillation adsorption desalination (MED-AD) system since spinning off from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012.
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Chile project envisions multiple mining clients for solar-powered SWRO
Energias y Aguas del Pacifico (ENAPAC), a proposed solar-powered seawater desalination plant and water transport project aims to support expansion of mining operations in Chile’s Atacama region.
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Jordan’s first SWRO opens for business
The opening of the first seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant in Jordan marks a jumping off point for the country from which it can continue to develop a desalination programme, including the much-anticipated Red Sea-Dead Sea project.
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Egyptian and UK researchers team up on low cost desal
Port Said University in Egypt and the UK’s University of Sheffield are to develop a system that integrates hybrid biogas and solar energy generation with desalination.