The Caconde plant, located in Sao Paulo and owned by AES Corporation, will be the first hydropower facility in Brazil to have GE’s advanced Mark VIe control system installed.

Emerson Process Management won a $28 million contract to automate nine hydroelectric power plants in Ukraine.

Siemens AG said hackers have attacked software used to control water-processing plants, power grids and factories globally.

Emerson Process Management signed a contract to apply its digital plant control system at units 3 and 4 of the Samcheonpo thermal power plant in South Korea.

Dutch utility company Essent has awarded contracts for a range of maintenance works at its Amercentrale power station in Geertruidenberg to Stork Technical Services. The contracts are for a shutdown of Amer-8 scheduled for early 2011, together with all the regular maintenance activities in the following five years.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said 97 of the nation’s 104 operating commercial nuclear power plant units were performing in the two highest categories.

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.