Electric generator plant in West Palm Beach, Fla. Poole & Kent Co. of Florida, a subsidiary of Emcor Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., has been awarded a contract for the construction of a new electrical generator plant for the city of West Palm Beach at its existing operating water treatment plant. The scope of work includes providing standby diesel generators and associated switchgear and appurtenances, bulk fuel storage systems and related equipment, and numerous modifications and upgrades to electrical and mechanical systems in various buildings throughout the existing plant. Details
$100 million in orders for ore mines in western Australia. ABB, Zurich, Switzerland, has won orders worth around $100 million from Rio Tinto for 17 distribution substations to support increased production at iron ore mines in western Australia. The upgrades and installation of new power infrastructure will raise the voltage level of the existing distribution substations and increase the power supply to support the expansion of existing iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. Details
$60 million power plant in Iraq. ABB also recently announced that it has won a $60 million contract from Shell Gas Iraq B.V. to build a new power plant in southern Iraq. The power plant will be operated by the Basrah Gas Co. a joint venture company to be set up as part of the Iraq, South Gas Project. The project includes the rehabilitation of the existing facilities and addition of new facilities. Details
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.