Siemens Energy has received a follow up order for the supply of an SST-400 steam turbine-generator as an extension to the turbine building in the chemical industrial park in Wilton, UK. The purchaser is park operator Sembcorp UK.

Australia’s Qantas Airways and GridX Power have signed an agreement to build the first significantly-sized trigeneration plant in New South Wales.

EPA is setting standards to become effective in 2013 to cut emissions from more than 900,000 stationary diesel engines that generate electricity and power equipment.

Whole Foods Market has chosen to power a third store, located in San Jose, California, US, with on-site fuel cell power from UTC Power. The other stores to install a ‘PureCell’ system from the company are in Dedham, Massachusetts and Glastonbury, Connecticut.

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.