GE has announced that it has signed a supply agreement with GreenTech Energy Company (GTE), one of GE’s authorised Channel Partners for Jenbacher gas engines in Russia, for 21 Jenbacher gas engines with a total capacity of 26 MW, to be delivered by the end of 2018.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been commissioned to build a 194 MW wind farm complex in Australia, which will combine installation of 56 of the firm’s SG 3.4-132 turbines with a battery energy storage system.
ContourGlobal, a London-based power generation company, is still seeking acquisitions in Brazil after abandoning talks to buy two coal-fired power plants from Engie of France.
DTEK of the Ukraine and China Machinery Engineering Corporation have signed a contract for the construction of a 200 MW solar power plant in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
GE’s Power Services business has signed a milestone agreement with Edison, part of EDF Group and Italy’s second largest integrated energy company, to improve performance at its Candela combined cycle power plant in Puglia.
Saudi Arabia has announced ambitious plans to build a 200 GW solar power plant.
Ghana will sell stakes in three thermal power plants as it seeks to cut the debts of state-owned companies, and boost electricity production.
GE Power has helped strengthen Iraq’s power infrastructure by rebuilding the 750 MW Al Qayara Power Plant that was damaged in the recent fighting in Mosul.
FirstEnergy Corporation of the USA has announced that its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection on 31 March, 2018.
The US power company FirstEnergy has urged the US Federal Government to use emergency powers to help it keep several struggling nuclear and coal-fired plants operating.