Xcel Energy is seeking approval to build a fourth, 168 MW unit at the 654 MW Jones natural gas-fired power plant in Texas for up to $117.6 million.

In Stephen King’s 1994 made-for-TV movie “The Stand,” most of the human race is wiped out by a deadly virus. As a result, power stations are unmanned and Americans are left without electricity for months.

Siemens Energy booked an order to supply power island equipment for the planned 637 MW Lake Side 2 combined-cycle power plant next to PacifiCorp’s existing 588 MW Lake Side combined-cycle plant in Utah.

Vestas-Canadian Wind Technology Inc. has entered into turbine supply and long-term service and maintenance agreements with Greengate Power Corp. to supply 166 V90-1.8 MW wind turbines for the 300 MW Blackspring Ridge I Wind Project.

A worker is missing after a building at Progress Energy Florida’s retired 452 MW Paul Bartow Power Plant collapsed the evening of June 9.

The 600 MW Power Block 5 at Progress Energy’s Richmond County Energy Complex in North Carolina entered service June 8.

Green Mountain Power announced that it has selected the Vestas V112 3 MW turbine for the $150 million, 63 MW Kingdom Community wind project to be built in Lowell, Vt.

Wood Group GTS has been awarded a four-year maintenance agreement by Audi AG to support two Solar Taurus 60 gas turbine generators which provide power for Audi’s Ingolstadt automotive manufacturing facility in Germany.

Towers for wind turbines destined for Vestas's Ontario wind projects will be manufactured by CS Wind in Ontario .

NV Energy brought online a 484 MW combined-cycle addition at the existing 144 MW Harry Allen Generating Station near Las Vegas.

Dominion Virginia Power, a unit of Dominion, began commercial operations at the $619 million, 580 MW Bear Garden combined-cycle power plant in central Virginia.

GE introduced a new wind turbine, the 1.6-100, which includes components from its 2.5-100 wind turbine.

Mortenson's Renewable Energy Groups is building 11 new wind projects in the U.S. totaling 1,363 MW and two additional wind power projects in Canada totaling 307.8 MW.

Vestas introduced upgrades to its V100-2.0 MW GridStreamer wind turbine to provide higher energy production, enhance grid compliance and offer a competitive cost of energy for the North American market.