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Siemens Cutting 200 Jobs at Texas Service Center
Siemens on December 11 said it would lay off about 200 workers at a gas turbines parts and components service center in Houston, Texas, sometime in late 2019 or early 2020. A company spokesperson made the announcement Tuesday, saying the cuts are due to weak global demand for the company’s turbines.
Siemens in a statement said the decision was “difficult.” The company, in a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission, also said the layoffs were partly due to overcapacity within the company’s network.
Siemens in September said that it would cut 2,900 jobs in Germany to boost the competitiveness of its Power and Gas and Process Industries divisions. The company at the time said the cuts would save about $ 590 million.
Lisa Davis, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, in a statement at the time said, “The market for fossil power generation has contracted substantially. Against the backdrop of this structural change, the agreement we’ve reached [with the company’s unions] is critical to improving our competitiveness.”…
Oregon Wave Energy Center Gets $40 Million for Test Facility
Oregon State University’s (OSU’s) Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) was awarded up to $ 40 million by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 21 to create what the center calls the world’s premier wave energy test facility in Newport, Ore.
The NNMREC facility, known as the Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site, is planned to be operational by 2020. It will be able to test wave energy converters that harness the energy of ocean waves and turn it into electricity. Companies around the world are already anticipating construction of the new facility to test and perfect their technologies, OSU officials say.
Oregon State University’s Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center was awarded up to $ 40 million by the DOE on December 21 to create a wave energy test facility in Newport. Source: OSU“We anticipate this will be the world’s most advanced wave energy test facility,” said Belinda Batten, director of NNMREC and a professor in the OSU College of Engineering.…