Distributed Generation

Distributed generation has taken an old idea of a power plant on every corner and improved it with local renewable energy, cogeneration, and on-site power.  Combined heat and power is increasing in commercial buildings, hospitals and government buildings while on-site renewable energy is taking off for residential and commercial buildings.

Distributed Generation

German cogeneration plant to receive Dresser-Rand turbine

18/05/2012 US industrial rotation equipment supplier, Dresser-Rand (NYSE: DRC), is to provide Max Bögl Group with an indirectly fired...

5 MW solar module delivered to Bulgaria

18/05/2012

China Sunergy has completed delivery of 5 MW in solar modules for the Yerussalimovo solar park in Bulgaria.

Apple announces solar powered future and ditches coal

18/05/2012

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

'Steel city’ ponders district heating from steel plants

15/05/2012 The steel city of Sheffield in the UK is pondering the use of its most famously associated commodity, in a district energy init...

Wartsila signs gas power agreement in South Africa

14/05/2012 Wartsila has signed three year Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Sasol New Energy Holdings, a wholly owned ...

New Zealand’s largest solar plant operational

11/05/2012 Engineering company South Auckland Forging Engineering (SAFE), is the owner of New Zealand’s largest solar power plant to date,...

BP’s Brazilian unit to invest $25.5m in cogeneration project

10/05/2012 BP Biocombustiveis, the Brazilian biofuels unit of BP (NYSE: BP), has announced that it will invest $25.5m in the dev...

BSkyB and BAA to benefit from combined heat and power

08/05/2012 Turboden, the leading manufacturer of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbogenerators, has been awarded an order for a 1 MW ORC pla...

GE technology to heat and power central London

08/05/2012 The first of three GE 2 MW Jenbacher CHP systems has been installed at the on-site energy centre in King's Cross, central Londo...

Smart Grid system provider wins Scottish wind farm contract

08/05/2012 S&C Electric Co., the Chicago-based Smart Grid specialist is capitalising on Europe’s drive to develop its wind energy reso...

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