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  1. Drax nears end of five-year £100m turbine upgrade

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    Fri, 18 May 2012

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

  2. German cogeneration plant to receive Dresser-Rand turbine

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    Fri, 18 May 2012

    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.

  1. Apple announces solar powered future and ditches coal

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    Fri, 18 May 2012

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

  2. 'Steel city’ ponders district heating from steel plants

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    Tue, 15 May 2012

    The steel city of Sheffield in the UK is pondering the use of its most famously associated commodity, in a district energy initiative.

  3. Wartsila signs gas power agreement in South Africa

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    Mon, 14 May 2012

    Wartsila has signed three year Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Sasol New Energy Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sasol, the integrated global energy and chemical company.

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

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    Thu, 10 May 2012

    BP Biocombustiveis, the Brazilian biofuels unit of BP (NYSE: BP), has announced that it will invest $25.5m in the development of a project for energy cogeneration from sugar cane bagasse.

  5. German minister calls for more land-based wind energy

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    Fri, 4 May 2012

    Germany’s transport minister Peter Ramsauer is advocating the (CSU) accelerated expansion of wind power on land, because of the delays in development of coastal wind energy.

  6. New Zealand’s largest solar plant operational

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    Fri, 11 May 2012

    Engineering company South Auckland Forging Engineering (SAFE), is the owner of New Zealand’s largest solar power plant to date, with the opening of the new facility in the town of Drury.

  7. China look to solar power nuclear free Japan

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    Thu, 10 May 2012

    With Japan opting out of nuclear power following Fukushima, Chinese solar producers are keen on exploiting the gap in power generation in the country.

  8. Alstom wins $84m Polish power plant contract

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    Thu, 10 May 2012

    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.