Foster Wheeler to Supply Heat Recovery Steam Generator in Spain

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract for a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) by UTE IBERESE-SOMAGUE — a business alliance formed between Iberese and the constructor, Somague, a Portuguese subsidiary of the Spanish construction group Sacyr Vallehermoso. The boiler will be integrated... 

New Generation Biofuels Announces Test Burn Agreement With Progress Energy Florida

New Generation Biofuels Inc. announced today that it has entered into a Test Burn Agreement with Progress Energy Florida to demonstrate its proprietary biofuel technology in utility boiler applications. The Agreement calls for New Generation Biofuels to supply its biofuel for a test program that will be performed in early 2009 at Progress Energy Florida’s... 

IPS to Supply Control Technology to World’s First Hydrogen Power Plant

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, announced that it has been selected by Enel to supply control and automation technology for the world’s first hydrogen-fuelled power plant, to be constructed in Fusina, near Venice in the Veneto region of Italy. Enel is Italy’s largest power company with more... 

Michigan Generating Plant Acquisition Announced

A company managed by Tenaska Capital Management, LLC (Tenaska Capital) has entered into an agreement with MACH Gen, LLC to acquire New Covert Generating Company, LLC, the owner of the Covert Generating Plant located near South Haven, Michigan. The Covert facility is a 1,100-megawatt, natural gas-fueled combined-cycle generating plant that sells power... 

Hydrogen Powered Turbine Test Proves Successful

Turbine Truck Engines, Inc., a leader in developing environmentally friendly turbine engine technology, is very pleased to report that the company has successfully operated its full scale, fifth generation prototype engine utilizing compressed hydrogen as the fuel source. The company also reported that the test produced zero emissions and required absolutely... 

TransCanada Closes Ravenswood Generating Station Acquisition

TransCanada Corporation announced that through its subsidiaries, it has acquired all the outstanding equity of both KeySpan-Ravenswood, LLC and KeySpan Ravenswood Services Corp., the companies which together own, control and operate the 2,480 megawatt (MW) Ravenswood Generating Station (Ravenswood) located in Queens, New York for US$2.8 billion plus...