Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply three Wärtsilä 20V34SG gas engine generator sets, producing a combined output of over 26 MW,  to Cabin Gas Plant Power Generation Project in British Columbia, Canada, 

A bi-partisan Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act has been introduced, which would offer incentives to increase the use of district energy and CHP systems to heat and cool buildings throughout the US, reports the International District Energy Association.

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. was awarded a contract to provide its 5.5 MW combined heat & power (CHP) plant system to the University of Central Florida.

Sales of micro-CHP devices fell to 20,930 units in 2009, but in terms of power generation capacity the market size actually grew to 37.8 MWe of capacity. The 2009 market was worth some €269 million (US$346 million) – according to the annual review of the micro-CHP market published by Delta Energy & Environment.

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas (MPS) is to provide CHP system, powered by Mitsubishi’s own 18KU30GSI gas-powered reciprocating engine, to the University of Central Florida (UCF). The CHP system will generate around 5.5 MW of electrical power to the UCF campus. 

Powered by manure from 4000 cows and a GE Jenbacher gas engine, the first biogas cogeneration plant in the Ukraine has completed nine months of successful operation at the Ukrainian Milk Company, located near Kiev.

Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Dow for a new cogeneration facility to be installed within its existing chemical complex at Stade, Germany.

GE has received contracts totalling nearly US$300 million to provide 6FA gas turbines and long-term services for the Salalah Independent Water & Power Project (IWPP), which is to be built in the Dhofar region of southern Oman.