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• French energy company Alstom will create at least 350 jobs in Chattanooga when it builds a plant that will make steam and gasoline turbines

  - 2008-03-22

  * French energy company Alstom will create at least 350 jobs in Chattanooga when it builds a plant that will make steam and gasoline turbines. The construction project, which will take about two years, represents an investment of $280 million for the Paris-based company, which already employs more than 600...

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• Alstom upgrades gas turbines in the UK and U.S.

  - 2008-01-01

  Alstom has been awarded a contract by Intergen for the supply and implementation of compressor upgrades for two GT26 gas turbine units at Coryton combined cycle power station in Essex, UK. The upgrade, including plant modifications, will improve the combined cycle output by more than 40 MW. All work will...

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• Alstom upgrades a gas turbine in Taiwan

  - 2007-07-01

  Alstom will upgrade one of the two GT11N2 gas turbines at the Tsung Hsiao power plant in Taiwan to GT11N2 M. The upgrade has an improved turbine blading and combustion chamber. It allows customers to change the operating mode from "more power" to "extended lifetime" during operation any time, but...

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• Features. . Conference Report: Alstom Power's chief on turbines, carbon, and IGCC

  - 2007-04-01

  face=+Bold; POWERface=-Bold; Contributing Editor Mark Axford sat down with Philippe Joubert, president of Alstom Power Systems, during CERA Week to get his perspective on the future of the industry. Following are excerpts of their conversation.

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• Alstom will supply half-speed turbine technology to Russian nuclear supplier

  - 2007-03-01

  Alstom is aligning with Russian nuclear plant supplier Atomenergomash to jointly design and produce plants for the growing nuclear market in Russia and abroad. The joint venture with Atomenergomash, a subsidiary of Atomenergoprom, the state-owned company that produces equipment for Russia's civil nuclear program, will be located near Moscow and...

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• GERARD BRUNEL, PRESIDENT OF EUNITED TURBINES AND ALSTOM POWER GENERATION : TURBINES REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS DUE TO GREATER PRODUCTIVITY.

  - 2006-12-13

  French-born Gerard Brunel is the Chief Executive Officer of ALSTOM Power Generation in Mannheim, Germany. He holds many posts in different European and German federations, one of which is the president of the European Gas and Steam Turbine Industry ( French-born Gerard Brunel is the Chief...

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• French power group EDF awards contracts for new nuclear plant

  - 2006-09-01

  PARIS AFP — French electricity group EDF said it had awarded construction contracts of more than 650 million euros (830 million dollars) for work on a new nuclear power plant in northern France. French engineering group Alstom has won a contract worth about 350 million euros to build a turbine...

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• evolution of Alstom gas turbines, The

  - 2006-07-01

  THE OEM INTRODUCES INCREMENTAL UPGRADES THAT CAN BE RETROFITTED

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• Alstom will upgrade Swedish nuclear turbines

  - 2006-01-01

  Alstom has won a 180 million euro contract to provide steam turbine and generator equipment to the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden. This is part of an upgrade project that will increase the output of the Boiling Water Reactor plant from 1,200 MW to more than 1,450 MW and...

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• Gas turbine orders surge at Alstom

  - 2005-11-01

  Alstom reports that sales of its GT26 machines are picking up with recent orders from Germany and Italy. At the end of September the company was awarded a contract to start "permitting engineering" work on an 800 MW combined cycle plant at Lingen, Germany, from RWE Power of Essen -...

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