Wärtsilä has renewed its Asset Management Agreement with Cemex Colombia, one of the major cement companies in Colombia.

Seawind Holdings SpA has signed a power purchase agreement with Compañia Minera Cerro Bayo Limitada to supply power to the isolated electrical grid system of the Cerro Bayo mining project in Chile.

A new bioethanol production plant that has been commissioned in Brazil is helping to fuel an adjacent cogeneration facility that supplies process steam, as well as electricity to the grid.

Legislation which will open up Chile’s domestic market for renewables has come into effect this week.

New analysis of the global renewable/diesel genset hybrid power systems market finds that the sector earned revenues of US$358.4 million in 2013 and is estimated to reach $552.2 million in 2018 at a compound annual growth rate of 9%.

New analysis from London-based Frost and Sullivan shows that poor grid connectivity in distant and rural areas will continue to fuel the hybrid power system market in spite of legislative and cost obstacles.

Mexican energy reform, which is overseeing the breakup of state utility CFE as oil giant Pemex, is likely to provide more opportunities for CHP.

Rame Energy plc has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Seawind Holdings SpA, has received an order from Compania Barrick Chile Generación Limitada for the design, supply and installation of new wind monitoring equipment at Barrick’s 20 MW Punta Colorada wind farm in Chile. 

A new combined heat and power plant in Mexico being developed for Enerkin SAPI de C.V. - the first independent power producer in Yucatan - will use GE Jenbacher gas engines.

A Pemex-owned gas processing facility in Tabasco, Mexico is to be the site of a $650m cogeneration facility.

Russia has chosen to have its energy efficiency aptitudes tested by the BREEAM sustainability standards as it continues to prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Three things are holding back the development and modernisation of cogeneration and district heating and cooling (DHC) around the world: poor strategic planning for heating and cooling infrastructure; local energy market conditions that fail to ensure that energy prices reflect generation costs; and a lack of long-term energy policies.

The Greece-Colombia  football match played on Saturday represented a first in World Cup terms: it was the first time the prestigious tournament was played in a solar-powered stadium

A hybrid diesel-photovoltaic (PV) on-site power system has produced big savings for an Ecuadorean airport.