Siemens received a contract to supply two gas-fired steam turbines from Black Hills Colorado IPP. The turbines will be installed at two 100 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants in Pueblo, Colo.

The UK/UAE Hydrogen Power Abu Dhabi joint venture will not be able to launch a construction deal for the world’s biggest hydrogen power plant until the second quarter of the year as it has been unable to complete offtake and financing agreements, sources close to the scheme told MEED.

Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water has issued a tender for the first phase of the long-delayed Al-Zour North power and water project, reports MEED.

An investigator with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said a natural gas blow might have caused a Feb. 7 explosion at a Connecticut power plant that killed six and injured 26.

Two planned gas-fired power plants in northern Iraq will be supplied by GE Energy, which signed equipment contracts worth $200 million.

‘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.

South Africa is seeking international support for a potentially controversial $3.75bn World Bank loan for its hard-pressed electricity industry.

Poyry has been awarded a EUR3.4m ($4.6m) site supervision contract for the Ashta run-of-river power plants in Albania by Energji Ashta Shpk, a subsidiary of Verbund International.