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.

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has dismissed her Environmental Minister, Norbert Röttgen.

Wuhan Boiler Company (WBC), Alstom’s largest utility boiler manufacturing site in the world, has signed a contract with Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group Co. Ltd., to supply four 350 MW sub-critical pulverised coal-fired boilers, for a cogeneration power plant located in Shandong Province, China.

US clean energy firm FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL) has announced that its German subsidiary, FuelCell Energy Solutions GmbH, is acquiring select assets from MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH, a subsidiary of Tognum AG.

Conergy AG, a German solar-panel maker, has won orders to develop two solar photovoltaic power plants in the Trier area of Germany.

David Miliband MP, attended the unveiling of the latest installation in South Shields, UK of leading international manufacturer of heating systems, Viessmann.

Leading renewable energy company Eco Environments has seen its turnover grow to more than £6m ($9.6m) – compared to £1.3M last year.

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

Uzbekistan state joint-stock company Uzbekenergo has announced a tender to select a general contractor for modernizing the Syr-Darya combined heat and power plant, one of the largest such plants in Central Asia.

The on-site utility, EuroSitePower Limited, have announced that it has finalised an agreement to supply clean energy, heating and cooling, to the Haverhill Leisure Centre in Suffolk, England.

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.

Germany’s troubled solar energy sector has won some breathing space after the country’s regional government blocked subsidy cut plans tabled by Berlin in the upper house of parliament, leading to hope for solar companies that they might avoid the full force of cuts being proposed.

Novia Scotia Power’s 60 MW biomass plant moved another step closer to completion this week in Canada, with the addition of a steam turbine and generator to the facility.

Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production (COSPP) is pleased to announce the launch of our online COSPP LinkedIn Group.

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.

A young Italian company that studies, plans and builds gasification and cogeneration systems has come up with a new innovation in combined heat and power technology.

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