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.

11 March 2010 - UTC Power has announced that its new 400 kW fuel cell system, the ‘PureCell’ Model 400, has been certified to meet the latest emission standards of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the strictest in the United States.

11 March 2010 - UK-based measurement technology specialist Testo AG has introduced a 4-gas emissions analyser, enabling efficiency and pollution measurements to be taken on burners or engine generator sets.

11 March 2010 - A new steam flow measurement device from US-based McCrometer is said to be ideal for campus district energy facilities and eliminates many of the common equipment layout problems associated with steam processes in HVAC and cogeneration systems.

11 March 2010 - Caterpillar has launched a new gas-fuelled generator set designed for maximum efficiency in extended duty distributed generation and CHP applications.

11 March 2010 - Australian geothermal company Petratherm has signed an agreement with the Madrid Regional and Spanish governments to progress an 8 MW Madrid Geothermal District Heating (GDH) project.