Q.CELLS has received an order for 7 Megawattpeak (MWp) of solar modules in Italy by IKEA.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited the country's four main utilities to meeting in May to consider how best to develop Germany’s energy mix for the future, now that nuclear has been firmly removed from the menu.

Cogeneration facilities are to form part of the plan as Genoa in northern Italy announced intent to spend €60m ($78m) to create a ‘smart city’ with a green energy and building refurbishment.

Gazprom OAO (GAZP), the world’s biggest gas producer, is to sell its 99.5 per cent stake in Lithuania’s Kaunas Heat and Power Plant, the Baltic News Service has reported.

Finnish wealth management firm, Taaleritehdas, plans to build a series of biogas plants throughout Finland, which will convert household biowaste, wastewater slurry, industrial byproducts and agricultural waste into biogas.

EcoBeet, a renewable energy company based in Cork, Ireland has signed up over 250 farmers on contract in an effort to set up a new renewable energy source for companies in Northern Ireland.

MiracleGen has announced that it is introducing its CHPs (Combined Heat & Power, or Cogeneration) to Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland and the UK.

District energy schemes are on the agenda for Christchurch as it continues to recover from the 2011 earthquakes that created so much damage in the city.

Gas turbine driven power solutions, OPRA Turbines B.V., has announced it will open its first office in Moscow

Gas turbine power solutions provider OPRA Turbines B.V. has announced the company will supply an OP16 gas turbine powered genset which will operate in CHP (combined heat and power) mode to Crespel & Deiters, a leading German wheat starch producer with focus on the corrugated-board and paper industries.

The UK Combined Heat and Power Association believes businesses will be forced to close after the UK government confirmed that the industry’s exemption will be removed from the Climate Change Levy.

Greenvironment Plc has landed an order for a 1.8 MW natural gas microturbine and other components for a combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) plant in Bucharest, Romania.

COGEN Europe’s annual conference on 3-4 May in Brussels will examine the factors hindering the expansion of bio-energy cogeneration in Europe, the association has announced.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan on the European Cogeneration Market, finds that the market earned revenues of EUR548.1m in 2011 and estimates this to reach EUR674.3m in 2018.