Swiss developer and constructor firm Zorg Biogas have constructed the first biogas power plant in Turkey.

Qatalum has awarded ABB an order worth US$16 million to upgrade the power distribution network at its aluminum smelting site in Mesaieed Industrial City, 50 km south of the capital Doha.

Capacity at three power plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be expanded under an agreement signed on Monday between Saudi Aramco and cogeneration supplier Tihama Power Generation Co, a joint venture between International Power and Saudi Oger.

On-site power will comprise part of the agenda for Renewable Energy World Africa, which will be launched alongside POWER-GEN Africa 2012 in Johannesburg in November.

Capstone Turbine has received an order for a C1000 and C200 for use at a large Nigerian pharmaceutical company.

Siemens has recently shipped its 100th SGT-300 industrial gas turbine from its manufacturing plant in Lincoln, UK, and will be used for cogeneration applications in the oil & gas sector.

NewZim Steel, a joint venture between Zimbabwe and Mumbai-based Essar Africa Holdings Limited, is to invest in a greenfield 50 MW multi-fuel cogeneration power plant in Redcliff, Zimbabwe.

Pharmaceutical giant Teva plans to build a private US$70 million natural gas-fueled CHP plant at its Teva Tech plant at Ramat Hovav in the Negev desert in Israel.

Wartsila is to supply and construct a complete on-site power plant in South Africa for Sasol New Energy Holdings.

Wartsila has been awarded a contract to supply the engineering, equipment and construction for an on-site power plant to be delivered to Saudi Arabian cement manufacturer Hail Cement.

South African national power utility Eskom Holdings says it has secured an additional 373 MW of cogeneration from a number of independent power producers including Sasol, Sappi and Ipsa over the past three years.

The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Hellenic, is to install a 6.5 MW CHP plant for its manufacturing factory in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.