UOP, a unit of Honeywell, was awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production.

Constellation Energy said a$1 billion air emissions flue gas desulfurization project at its coal-fired Brandon Shores Power Plant in Maryland has begun commercial operation.

France’s Alstom has signed a contract for the design, supply and site advisory services for two electrostatic precipitators for the oil fired Rabigh independent power project (IPP).

The question is, what’s going to happen over the next 10 years in particular? I think at that time we’re looking at the need for tens of thousands of megawatts not only to meet new load growth but hopefully to start replacing some aging coal plants around the country.

Entergy Corp. has agreed to several concessions to woo New York regulators to approve a planned spin off nuclear power plant company, Enexus Energy Corp.

‘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.

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

Tenaska said its planned 602 MW Taylorville coal to gas-fired power plant would cost about $3.5 billion and enter service in 2014. The cost is around $5,800/kW.