Drax Power Station is poised to complete what it claims is the largest steam turbine modernisation programme in UK history.

RusHydro in partnership with Alstom has started the construction of a $159m hydro power equipment manufacturing plant in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan.

Rolls-Royce have announced that two of the Group’s Trent 60 gas turbines have successfully entered service at the new EDF Luminus power plant located at Angleur in the city of Liège, Belgium.

Leading renewable energy company Eco Environments has seen its turnover grow to more than £6m ($9.6m) – compared to £1.3million last year.

US-based Invenergy LLC, a renewable-power developer, has completed three wind farms using General Electric Co. turbines in Poland, in conjunction with local company Enerco.

Alstom S.A. (ENX:ALO) has announced that it has won a contract worth approximately €65m ($84m) with GDF Suez Energia Polska S.A. to perform the modernization of six units at Poland's Polaniec power plant plant.

UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry yesterday granted consent for a controversial 76-turbine wind farm located between Neath and Aberdare in Wales, paving the way for the biggest such facility in the UK.

Siemens has begun work on a manufacturing facility and training centre for gas turbines and compressors in Dammam, as part of a massive expansion of its activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Spanish wind power company Gamesa believes the US offshore wind power market is lagging behind the rest of the world.

Siemens Energy has received a first order from North America for the supply of its SGT-750 industrial gas turbine.

Vestas has reported a punishing quarterly operating loss as revenue trickled in slowly and costs weighed, meaning a 10 per cent drop in share price.

Rolls-Royce has won a $30m order from Shell to supply two industrial RB211 gas turbines to boost gas output from a deepwater natural gas project in the Philippines.

Alstom Bharat Forge Power Ltd. (ABFPL), the joint venture company between Alstom and Bharat Forge, has secured an order worth over $201m for the supply to NTPC Limited of two units of 660 MW supercritical coal “turbine islands” in Solapur located in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Alstom has won a $171m contract from Odebrecht Energia to supply four wind farm plants in the South of Brazil.

AREVA has announced the arrival in China, at the beginning of April, of the first two steam generators and the pressurizer for Unit 1 on the site of the Taishan EPR power plant.

Turbomach has been recognised for its contribution to cogeneration technology, being awarded the 2011 European Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award.

Vattenfall AB is to commit €1.46bn ($1.9bn) into modernising its hydropower plants over the next ten years.

ABB has invested $50m with a view to enabling local production of gas insulated switchgear and distribution transformers in the Indian subcontinent.

The UK does not need more onshore wind farms and in the recent past had pursued an unbalanced approach in favour of land-based turbines, according to Britain’s energy and climate change minister.