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

11 March 2010 - A consortium of Dutch companies has created a living smart grid demonstration community, including interconnected micro-CHP units, that goes live today. Consultancy KEMA has partnered with Dutch energy research centre ECN, software company Humiq and utility Essent to create the ‘PowerMatching City.’

‘Waste’ heat from power generation could meet a significant share of the UK demand for energy, providing a more efficient, flexible and resilient energy system than that currently proposed in an ‘all-electric’ approach to decarbonization of the UK energy system.

Wartsila and Hitachi Zosen have signed a business development agreement to develop and market fuel cell based power solutions for distributed power generation applications in Japan.

The City of Sydney aims to remove its dependence on coal-fired electricity and increase its self sufficiency in low-carbon energy supplies, including up to 330 MWe of new ‘trigeneration’ (heat, power and cooling) capacity, to and beyond 2030.

SunPower Corp. is designing and building a 1 MW solar power system in California. Project finance includes multiple funding sources, including clean renewable energy bonds and qualified energy conservation bonds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

A U.S. House of Representatives Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee heard testimony March 16 that the U.S. faces a potentially serious shortage of rare earth metals, without which next-generation wind turbines, hybrid vehicles, cell phones and national defense technologies don’t work.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to change its rules regarding how pressurized water reactor (PWR) operators can determine how likely a reactor vessel is to fail during a pressurized thermal shock (PTS) event.

Pattern Energy Group LP acquired the 283 MW Gulf Wind project Gulf Wind from Babcock & Brown. Gulf Wind includes 118 wind turbines and is on the Gulf Coast in Kenedy County, Texas.

Ameren Corp. (AEE) will file an application to combine three of the company's Illinois units into a single public utility that would be called Ameren Illinois.