ABB will supply six Unitrol 6800 static excitation systems for the Third Power Plant at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington.

Located in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Saranac Power is an independent 160 MWe facility that generates power for sale to the grid via two gas turbines equipped with heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs). Low-pressure steam exiting the steam generators is passed through an air-cooled condenser, returning the condensate back to the boiler to complete the cycle.

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Retrofitting turbines with lighter, thinner blades can boost power output. While many believe in the slogan “you can never be too thin or too rich,” some engineers have been reluctant to apply that same adage to their pressure seals. They opt to go with older, thicker spiral wound or camprofile seals, rather than switching to slimmer gaskets like the Selco technology from Sealing Corp. of North Hollywood, Calif. According to Sealing Corp., these gaskets are more pliable, longer-lasting, stable under temperature and pressure shifts, less prone to leakage and require a much lower bolt load.

Henkel Corp.’s trademarked Loctite 5802 PST High Purity Thread Sealant is made for use on threaded stainless steel pipes and fittings found in high temperature environments such as nuclear facilities. The sealant is low in impurities such as halogens, sulfur and low-melting-point metals which can be harmful to metal pipes.

GE has shipped the second of its syngas turbines to Duke Energy’s integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant in Indiana.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. signed a contract worth $90 million to design, engineer, procure and construct scrubbers for two 825 MW units at Detroit Edison Co's Monroe Power Plant.

Paulo Fernando Soares was named CEO of wind turbine manufacturer Kenersys, a unit of Kalyani, starting April 13.

Toshiba and IHI have reached a basic agreement to launch a joint venture to manufacture steam turbine components for nuclear power generating plants in Japan and overseas.

Hundreds of European offshore wind turbines have a design fault allowing them to slide on their bases and finding a solution could take months and cost millions of pounds, European turbine makers and wind farm operators said.

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. began construction of the 26.4 MW Phase I Red Lily Wind Project in southeastern Saskatchewan. The company executed a turbine supply agreement with Vestas Canadian Wind Technology Inc., received required permits and satisfied conditions for project financing.

E.ON ordered 87 Siemens Energy SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines for the 200 MW Papalote Creek II wind power plant in San Patricio County, Texas. 

German utility RWE expects to make a decision about whether it will build a gas fired power plant in Turkey in the second quarter of 2010, and will look for opportunities to further expand into the Turkish energy market, according to CEO Juergen Grossmann.

Siemens has received an order to supply key components for four 250 MW combined-cycle units at the Ningxia East thermal power plant in China.

Power plant contractor China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC) has won a contract to build a $750m coal fired power station in Australia.

Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. ordered 43 of Siemens' 2.3 MW SWT 2.3-101 wind turbines for the Greenwich wind energy project in Ontario, Canada.

Xcel Energy has shut down the 750 MW Comanche 3 coal-fired power plant in Colorado to repair boiler tube leaks and to install baffles to quiet a high-pitched noise coming from the plant.

Siemens Energy has been contracted by EWE AG and Enova to supply 30 wind turbines for the Riffgat wind farm in the North Sea.