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India intends to more than double its renewable power capacity to almost 53 GW by 2017.
Drax Power Station is poised to complete what it claims is the largest steam turbine modernisation programme in UK history.
US industrial rotation equipment supplier, Dresser-Rand (NYSE: DRC), is to provide Max Bögl Group with an indirectly fired KG 2-3 G gas turbine for its new biomass cogeneration plant in Bavaria, Germany.
Coal power generators, Drax are reaping the benefits of lower costs in producing power, while sales are on the rise.
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.
Turboden, the leading manufacturer of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbogenerators, has been awarded an order for a 1 MW ORC plant from BSkyB and a 1.8 MW ORC plant for BAA , both located in London, UK.
Columbia's largest sugar producer has announced that its board of directors approved a proposal that would allow the company to build a 35 MW biomass cogeneration plant at a cost of around $48m.
Swedish power company Vattenfall is claiming a successful first quarter of 2012 after posting profits of SEK 13.6bn ($2bn), a rise of 92.4 per cent on the same period last year.
The Italian government has approved legislation for a new renewable energy incentive scheme that will see subsidy cuts for solar power.
Green Party mayoral candidate Jenny Jones is advocating a combined heat and power future for iconic Battersea Power Station.
