British shipbuilder Cammell Laird today took a major step forward in its ambition to supply the land-based nuclear industry by announcing a partnership with nuclear engineering specialist Nuvia.

Areva has developed a technique for restoring the seat sealing surfaces on shut-off valves in nuclear power plants with the advantage of no longer having to remove the valves concerned.

Emerson Process Management of the US has been awarded two multi-million dollar orders from Westinghouse Electric Company for critical control valves to be used in the first of two AP1000 pressurized water reactors at the Sanmen and Haiyang nuclear power plants in China.

Areva will delay the start of manufacturing nuclear power reactor components at a facility being built in Virginia.

Westinghouse has successfully completed the final design review and prototype testing of AP1000 squib valves, which will be used in the AP1000 reactor’s passive cooling system.

Analysis shows average wind speeds over parts of the UK during the past year have been at or close to historical lows. Conversely, a number of factors in the U.S. caused noticeably intensified domestic wind speeds across much of the Western U.S. compared to the first quarter of 2010.

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.