25/04/2012
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.
Converteam has announced that it has successfully completed static testing of essential elements of its HYDROGENIE generator, thought to be the world’s first HTS hydro generator to be installed at the Hirschaid run-of-river hydroelectric power plant in Bavaria, Germany
06/07/2010
Power plants with variable speed turbines offer the most effective green energy storage solutions, pumping water to a higher elevation during low-cost off-peak times and releasing the power through the same pump-turbines during periods of high demand
Converteam has delivered the first ever 60MW static power supply for one of the accelerators housed by CERN
Converteam will supply the electrical equipment for KSTAR, a leading nuclear fusion project developed by the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) in Daejeon, South Korea, supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project