The Henry Hub is the pricing point for natural gas futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

The Shaw Group Inc. has been awarded a contract to build five heat recovery steam generator boilers for the 2,160 MW Pembroke combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in the United Kingdom.

American Municipal Power (AMP) chose the design team of Ranco and Burns & McDonnell to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the 600 MW AMPGS a combined cycle gas turbine power plant.

Germany’s RWE and its Turkish partner, Turcas, have confirmed they are on track to build a power plant in Turkey’s Aegean province of Denizli.

Siemens Energy has received an order from Dutch utility Nuon for the turnkey construction of a 435 MW combined-cycle power plant in the vicinity of Amsterdam.

RWE Innogy and German Pellets have inaugurated RWE's biomass-fuelled cogeneration station and the neighbouring pellet plant at the Wittgenstein industrial estate in Germany.

Spanish company Iberdrola Engineering & Construction has secured a contract for two electricity power lines, each 220 km of length in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, as well as two substations associated with the 750 MW La Yesca hydroelectric plant.

FuelCell Energy has announced the sale of a 1.4 MW DFC1500 fuel cell power plant to G3 Power Systems for installation at the Olivera Egg Ranch, a poultry farm located in French Camp, California, US.

The Chilean minister of Energy, Ricardo Raineri has been quoted as saying by El Mercurio that his government's energy policy will seek to secure around 20 per cent of the country’s power production from renewable energy sources by 2020.

Several global firms proposed investment projects in the electricity sector in the war-torn Iraqi city of Basra including Germany's Siemens.