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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

11 March 2010 - A new steam flow measurement device from US-based McCrometer is said to be ideal for campus district energy facilities and eliminates many of the common equipment layout problems associated with steam processes in HVAC and cogeneration systems.

11 March 2010 - Caterpillar has launched a new gas-fuelled generator set designed for maximum efficiency in extended duty distributed generation and CHP applications.