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

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

The UK’s Energy Minister Charles Hendry says rolling out its smart meters will benefit the country to the tune of £7bn ($11.1bn)

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.

Brazil is coming up with alternatives to tackle its growing energy demand. In the last decade, its population has grown considerably and is now close to 200 million. The government is in the process of developing several energy projects that are strongly supported by foreign capital. Through those projects, the Brazilian government wants to take electric power to areas where it would have been unthinkable in the recent past.

KDM Energia, a Chilean power firm, is set to expand the capacity of its Loma Los Colorados biogas fired power plant to 18 MW from its current 11.8 MW by the end of the first half of this year.

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

US utility Duke Energy’s (NYSE: DUK), CEO Jim Rogers has urged the Smart Grid sector to fight fire with fire and outshout what he called ‘scaremongers’ whose vocal opposition threatened to damage the industry.

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.

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.

Orascom Construction Industries has formally signed the $363m contract to build a 1014 MW power station in Baija, Iraq.

E.ON (EONGn.DE), Germany's top utility, may join forces with Eike Batista to produce gas in northern Brazil after companies owned by the Brazilian billionaire found significant amounts of gas in the region.

Irish utility ESB plans to invest £750m (US$1.2bn) to build a new 1500-MW gas-fired power plant in Britain.

The UK government has been accused by some of its own MPs of putting out misleading figures on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

A critical report into drilling for shale gas is due to be delivered in the coming weeks, and could check the progress of gas fueled power generation in Britain.

The World Bank has signed an agreement with Egypt for the third phase of the North Giza power project.

Gazprom wants to invest in gas- fired power plants in Bavaria, Germany as part of a plan to expand in the German energy market.

Gamesa has announced the launch of a new wind turbine: the G114-2.0 MW Class IIIA, designed to achieve maximum returns from low wind sites.

A controversial wind farm has been given the all clear despite local opposition, and should produce enough energy to power 175 000 homes.