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Drax joins talks over carbon capture and storage project (Mar 11, 2010)

Drax, the owner of the UK's biggest coal fired power station, has embarked on feasibility studies into the use of carbon capture and storage after joining talks with a regional development agency to help develop its GBP2bn ($3.5bn) carbon cluster project.

Coal-fired power plant to get carbon capture demonstration (Mar 9, 2010)

NRG Energy Inc. will receive up to $154 million from the Department of Energy and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build a post-combustion carbon capture demonstration unit at the company's 3,564 MW WA Parish coal-fired power plant in Texas.

Carbon capture marketing collaboration formed (Mar 9, 2010)

Fluor Corp. and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. have formed an alliance with Fluor's Power Group to market and sell carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the United States and Canada.

International Power signs financing for 815 MW Indonesia coal fired plant (Mar 9, 2010)

International Power's 40.5 per cent owned Paiton Energy has signed the financing for an 815 MW, coal fired Paiton 3 plant in Indonesia.

Four consortia in race to build 1000 MW coal plant in Kosovo (Mar 9, 2010)

Kosovo's energy ministry has selected four international consortia to build a 1000 MW coal fired power plant to begin construction in early 2011.

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Five hydroelectric power projects sold (Mar 11, 2010)

Great Lakes Utilities and Consolidated Water Power Co. (CWPCo), a unit of NewPage Corp, have signed a letter of intent to sell five CWPCo hydroelectric projects located along the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin.

Natural gas-fired plant faces extensive rebuilding after explosion (Mar 11, 2010)

Six buildings at the 620 MW Kleen energy natural gas-fired plant in Connecticut have been deemed unsafe by the city of Middletown's building official, according to an article with The Hartford Courant.

Siemens gas, steam turbine plant to be built in U.S. (Mar 11, 2010)

Siemens is planning to build a 60 Hz gas turbine production plant at its existing facility in Charlotte to provide manufacturing and servicing functions for the supply of its gas and steam turbines and generators to 60 Hz markets globally.

400 kW fuel cell certified to California standards (Mar 11, 2010)

11 March 2010 - UTC Power has announced that its new 400 kW fuel cell system, the ‘PureCell’ Model 400, has been certified to meet the latest emission standards of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the strictest in the United States.

Emissions monitor for engines, turbines (Mar 11, 2010)

11 March 2010 - UK-based measurement technology specialist Testo AG has introduced a 4-gas emissions analyser, enabling efficiency and pollution measurements to be taken on burners or engine generator sets.

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