Gazprom may sign a deal to purchase the Marcinelle electric station in Belgium from Enel at this week's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), several industry sources told Interfax.

Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) may sign a deal to purchase the Marcinelle electric station in Belgium from Enel at this week's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), several industry sources told Interfax.

The Province of Saskatchewan, Canadian Government has issued the following press release:

The newly constructed North Battleford Generating Station is now contributing power to the provincial electrical grid to help meet the growing demand for electricity in Saskatchewan.

GENEVA, June 7 -- Publication No. WO/2013/080386 was published on June 6.

Title of the invention: "SOLAR THERMAL COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT." Applicants: HITACHI LTD. (JP), KATAGIRI Yukinori (JP), KOYAMA Kazuhito (JP), HATAMIYA Shigeo (JP), TAKAHASHI Fumio (JP) and KUSUMI Naohiro (JP). Inventors: Yukinori Katagiri (JP), Kazuhito Koyama (JP), Shigeo Hatamiya (JP), Fumio Takahashi (JP) and Naohiro Kusumi (JP). According to the abstract* posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "A solar thermal combined cycle power plant is provided with: a solar-thermal-powered hot water generation unit (30) for generating hot water by heating a thermal-storage medium using a first solar collector (1), and exchanging heat between the thermal-storage medium and some water supplied from a water supply pump (8) using a heat exchanger (9); a solar-thermal-powered intake-air sprayer unit (31) for using an intake-air spraying-water pump (13) and pressurizing the hot water generated by the solar-thermal-powered hot water generation unit (30), and spraying the pressurized hot water into the intake air of a gas turbine (3) by using an intake-air spraying device (20); and a solar-thermal-powered steam generation unit (32) for generating steam using a second solar collector (2) by vaporizing the hot water generated by the solar-thermal-powered hot water generation unit (30), and supplying the steam to a steam turbine (5)." The patent was filed on Dec.

New Delhi, June 1 -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced the completion of its Sutton Pipeline Project, which will provide natural gas delivery service to a new combined cycle power generation facility near Wilmington, North Carolina. The pipeline project, first announced in April 2010, involved the construction of 120 miles of 20-inch natural gas transmission pipeline, 8 miles of 30-inch natural gas transmission pipeline, and approximately 25,000 HP of additional compression facilities on Piedmont's system.