Siemens Energy Inc. has won a gas and steam turbine-generator sale to the Republic of Korea to expand the 1,800 MW Incheon Plant in Seoul.

French utility Poweo and Siemens have signed a contract for the turnkey construction of a 413 MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant at Toul, eastern France.

Alstom has struck a EUR450m ($583m) deal to build an 800 MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh state, India.

Siemens has been awarded contracts for the turnkey construction of two combined-cycle power plants including long-term service agreements in India - UNOSUGEN and DGEN by Torrent Power Ltd and Torrent Energy Ltd. respectively of Torrent Group based in Ahmedabad, India.

India’s GVK Gautami Power yesterday signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreements with the consortium of Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd, Korea and Larsen & Toubro for the installation of advanced class Siemens single shaft gas turbine generators.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities and threatens human health and the environment.

The Weekly Coal Update is a compilation of the amount of coal produced in the U.S. every week.

Climate change initiatives will require substantial changes to the bulk power system, the North American Electric Reliability Corp.announced in its Reliability Impacts of Climate Change Initiatives report.

GSE Systems Inc. has received $7 million of new work in its nuclear simulation sector.

Patrick Kron, CEO of Alstom has, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iraq's ministry of oil and electricity, for the development and modernization of the war-torn nation's power infrastructure.