The Netherlands, Den Oever/Schiedam (Nov. 26 2015) – The tidal power plant in the Dutch Eastern Scheldt surge barrier has been put into service. The festive commissioning, where the largest tidal energy project in the Netherlands as well as the world’s largest commercial tidal installation of five turbines in an array, was performed by Diederik Samsom, group chairman of the Dutch Labour Party.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (Nov. 24, 2015) – Baldor Electric Company has appointed Myla Petree to the newly created position of director – strategic program management. In this role, she and a recently formed team of project managers will be responsible for organizing, driving and successfully implementing key projects across a variety of Baldor locations and products.

LONDON (Nov. 24, 2015) – With the giant Zohr gas field in Egypt expected to come online by 2018, and President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi agreeing to remove any political obstacles to Eni commercializing the field, the stage is being set for a wider regional development plan catalyzing other projects in the east Mediterranean, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.