It's installing a large-scale version of the original system at a plant in Oakville, Ontario--thanks to the generosity of the Canadian government.
It is one of the major players in system installation, with the majority of its installation in the utility and power plant segment.
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Mr Barlow was a system supervisor for BP at the In Amenas plant.
In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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Last year, a water plant in Texas disconnected its control system from the Internet after a hacker posted pictures of the facility's internal controls.
Australian start-up Sunengy is partnering with Tata Power of India to develop a similar solar system for the reservoir of a hydro power plant in Mumbai.
Lynas Corp is about to commission its Malaysian separation plant: when that whole system is in full production we might be talking of another 20, 000 tonnes a year.
"Stuxnet is a threat targeting a specific industrial control system likely in Iran, such as a gas pipeline or power plant, " according to the report.
They have also suspended refuelling at their Calder Hall plant in Cumbria, which uses the same refuelling system as Chapelcross, while moving to reassure the public that the incident was a "low level" nuclear incident.
Other times the attacks are more personal:In 2000 a discontented consultant, rejected for a job at a water treatment plant in Australia, remotely hacked into a sewage treatment system and released 264, 000 gallons of raw sewage into rivers and parks.
In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
It says the cooling system used by the reactors kills too many aquatic organisms in the Hudson River and that the plant has leaked radioactive material into the river.
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The ability to use domestic, clean, affordable natural gas combined with significant amounts of carbon to produce syngas for use in a gas-to-liquids plant offers extraordinary advantages over the current system.
Power has been restored to part of the cooling system at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, after it failed for the second time in a month.
In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that software was, indeed, patentable, but only in the context of some mechanical entity, whether it be a steel plant, a computer system or even (unbelievably) a CD-ROM disc.
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Another kind of system, known as DCS, or Distributed Control Systems, is often used in isolated areas such as a chemical plant.
Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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