Oregon-based Element Power Americas is working toward a Phase II to the already operational site at the 50 MW Macho Springs Wind Energy Facility in Luna County, N.M.

Kyocera Solar Inc. announced that it has begun shipments of its U.S.-made solar modules for a 127 MW, utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) installation in southwestern Arizona.

Westinghouse Electric Co., Burns & McDonnell and General Dynamics Electric Boat will collaboratively team to support the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) application for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Modular Reactor Funding Opportunity, the companies said on May 21.

Siemens has received an order for 50 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 115 MW for the El Arrayán wind power plant in Chile, approximately 400 kilometers north of Santiago.

RMT Inc. (RMT), a renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor specializing in the design, engineering, and construction of wind and solar energy generating facilities, is adding 555 MW to its renewable energy practice in 2012.

Westinghouse Electric Co. and the Missouri Electric Alliance, led by Ameren Missouri, have formed a utility participation group, the NexStart SMR Alliance, to support the deployment of the Westinghouse 225 MWe small modular reactor (SMR).

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy will jointly develop the 21 MW Auwahi Wind farm in Hawaii.

Wind energy developer Alliance Power Inc. has selected RMT Inc. (RMT) to design and construct the 67 MW Colorado Highlands Wind project in Logan County, Colo.

Lincoln Renewable Energy dedicated its 12.5 MW NJ Oak solar project in New Jersey.

Czech Republic utility CEZ Energy said it intends to consider the possibility of a strategic partnership in the completion of the Temelín Nuclear Power Station.

GE will supply 38 wind turbines for four wind projects in construction in northern Poland.

SPI Solar, a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) solar developer, entered into an engineering, procurement and construction contract with a subsidiary of KDC Solar to design and build 6.4 MW of solar energy projects at a resort in Vernon, N.J.

SunPeak Power has completed construction on a 23 MW solar photovoltaic plant in Niland, Calif.

Enel Green Power S.p.A., through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America Inc., has begun construction work of a geothermal plant located in Cove Fort in southern Utah.

HDR Inc. has acquired Stetson Engineering Inc., a Wyoming-based firm with offices in Gillette and Riverton.

MidAmerican Solar, a unit of MidAmerican Renewables, and First Solar broke ground May 3 on the 550 MW Topaz solar photovoltaic (PV) project in California.

First Wind on May 1 started major construction on its first wind project in Washington state, the 105 MW Palouse Wind in northern Whitman County.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. (B&W PGG), has received full notice to proceed for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power plant and environmental control equipment for the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Geothermal company Energy Development Corp. (EDC) has pulled out of the 185 MW Calerias energy project in Chile after reportedly encountering disappointing exploration results during a recent resource assessment.