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

Apple says that all three of its server centres will be run by solar power alone in the very near future.

Royal Dutch Shell says it expects gas prices in the US to double in the next three years.

Coal power generators, Drax are reaping the benefits of lower costs in producing power, while sales are on the rise.

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.

African nation, Botswana, is to issue a tender for two 300 MW coal fired plants to be built, construction beginning this 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.

The world’s largest carbon capture and storage demonstration project was launched in Norway yesterday.

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.

Bertin Energia, the electric power holding of Bertin Group, has given back concessions for the 300 MW Jose de Alencar thermal power plant in Brazil after its contract with the government came to an end.

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.

The UK has set up a Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force to ensure that CCS takes off in Britain and is competitive with other low carbon technologies.

Leading figures within the International Energy Agency (IEA) have spoken out to highlight the poor adoption rates by utilities of carbon capture and storage technology.