Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), GE’s GE Energy Financial Services subsidiary and Diamond Generating Corp. (DGC) said May 16 that commercial operations began at a natural gas-fired power plant in California.

A new natural gas-fired power plant is in the works in Oklahoma.

GE and Green Waste Energy signed a frame agreement for GE to supply an undetermined amount of Jenbacher gas engines to power a series of Advanced Recycling and Energy Conversion plants.

AES Corp. said two units expect to retire or repower coal-fired units in Indiana and Ohio, and build a natural gas-fired power plant.

Leaders of California’s energy and environmental regulatory organizations joined to dedicate the Walnut Creek Energy Park in the city of Industry, Calif.

U.S.-based North Energy Central (NEC), a unit of Southern California Telephone & Energy (SCT&E), agreed with the Dominican Republic State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE) to install a 400 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Manzanillo, in the Northwest province of Montecristi.

The federal sequester, among other uncertainties, are some of the reasons that American Municipal Power said it would not be moving on with a planned natural gas-fired peaking plant with FirstEnergy.

Gemma Power Systems, a subsidiary of Argan Inc., signed a Consent and Intercreditor Agreement for a planned 820 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.

The Ohio Power Siting Board has recently approved plans for Oregon Clean Energy LLC to build an $860 million natural gas-fired power plant in Oregon, Ohio.

Construction is complete and testing is entering the home stretch on the 618-MW Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) Edwardsport integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) project in Indiana.

Dominion and FuelCell Energy Inc. have broken ground on the 14.9 MW Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell project, the largest fuel cell power project in North America.

NRG Energy Inc. has started commercial operation at its 720 MW Marsh Landing Generating Station located near Antioch, Calif.

Construction is set to begin next year for a new 700 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Harlingen, Texas

The energy industry and the communications industry are getting quite cozy these days, and no wonder.

Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) is planning to build a $631 million combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant near Martinsville, Ind., the company announced Wednesday.

Power Engineering recently moderated a roundtable discussion with executives from American Electric Power, Electric Power Research Institute, Alstom and Bechtel.

Overland Contracting Inc. (OCI) was selected by Celanese Corp. to replace its coal-fired boilers with natural gas-fired boilers at a plant in Virginia.

Capital Power will locate its proposed natural gas-fired plant in Genesee, Alberta.

The California Energy Commission on April 16 officially suspended further consideration of the proposed 100-MW Quail Brush peaking plant for one year following a request by the developer.