Software allows creating "intelligent" 2-D drawings that correlate to a 3-D design package.

It's been quite a winter! Did the weather cause any shutdowns, de-rates or other anomalies at your generating unit?

Emerson Process Management has been awarded $2 million in contracts to provide its Fisher control valves for Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear plants to be built in China and the United States.

Does your generating unit cycle more or less frequently than in the past two years?

Siemens Energy Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical, was awarded a contract to supply and install its power plant automation T3000 control system in Associated Electric Co-op’s Chouteau 2 natural gas-fired power plant in Oklahoma.

Mississippi Power Co. is proposing to cap the cost of its proposed 582 MW Kemper County IGCC plant at $3.2 billion, or almost $5,500/kW. The cap would be around 30 percent higher than current cost estimates.

19 March 2010 - Utilities in several US states have recently embraced new energy storage technologies as part of the deployment of advanced smart grids, reports the US Department of Energy (DOE) in its Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy newsletter. Smart grid and power storage technologies are seen by many as the key to the connection of large amounts of distributed generation capacity.

19 March 2010 - A new hydrogen fuelling station planned to be built by Air Products in Fountain Valley, California, is to incorporate FuelCell Energy's ‘DFC-H2’ fuel cell technology to produce clean on-site power and heat – and renewable hydrogen.

oomberg New Energy Finance’s new long-term projection model shows that based on current policy targets annual global expenditure on renewable energy projects will increase from $90bn in 2009 to $150b in 2020, and reach $200bn by 2030.