Caterpillar Power Generation Systems (Caterpillar PGS) has been selected to provide two medium-speed diesel generator sets for a cogeneration power plant that will produce over 25 MW of power in Paramaribo, Suriname.

9 February 2010 – The AE&E Group, which makes up the Plant Construction Division of A-TEC Industries AG, has won an order from Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, Mackay Sugar to build a 40 MW cogeneration plant in Queensland, Australia.

Northland Power Income Fund agreed to build and run a C$700 million (US$654.6 million), 261 MW natural-gas-fired plant in Canada that will use GE turbines.

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in January for the sixth consecutive month, according to the January 2010 Manufacturing Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Report on Business.

President Obama and several cabinet members, along with a bipartisan group of governors, held a meeting Feb. 3 to discuss ways to incorporate more biofuels and emissions technology into means of lowering the United States' dependence on foreign oil.

9 February 2010 - South Korea is set to install scores of wind turbines on the shallow seabed off its west coast in 2012 in order to carry out feasibility studies of the new technology.

A group of U.S. Senators introduced the Clean Air Act Amendments of 2010 that calls for a 90 percent cut in mercury emissions from coal-fired plants and tightened national limits on emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NO_X).