Ventyx, an ABB company, signed multimillion-dollar deals with CDEC-SIC in Chile and UTE in Uruguay.

Schott Electronic Packaging said it has received the nuclear ASME-NPT and Material Organization certifications for its plant in Landshut, Germany, producing hermetic glass-to-metal sealed Electrical Penetration Assemblies.

Emerson Process Management will install its Ovation expert control system at a new 660 MW, supercritical coal-fired power plant in Indonesia.

L-3 Mapps said it has been contracted by DTE Energy to upgrade the 1, 100 MW Fermi 2 nuclear power plant simulator with L-3’s Orchid simulation environment.

Control room operators disconnected Indian Point’s Unit 3 nuclear power plant from the electrical grid Feb. 28 in order to troubleshoot an issue with an auxiliary electrical transformer.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) officials declared a “Notification of Unusual Event” on Feb. 12 at 8:34 a.m. EST and notified federal, state and local officials

Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd. said it received a purchase order from China Techenery Co. Ltd. (CTEC), to supply its proprietary non-safety automation and control products to the Unit 3 reactor of Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station, valued at approximately $1.8 million.

The University of Michigan plans to spend $6.75 million to update its 46.5 MW combined heat and power Central Power Plant on campus.

Ventyx, a unit of ABB, said that Belgian energy company Electrabel has licensed Ventyx asset health management software to facilitate enhanced equipment reliability at the company's nuclear power plants in Belgium.

Metso Corp. has been selected to help Xcel Energy modernize its three-unit, 2,400 MW coal-fired Sherburne County Generating Plant in Minnesota.

Siemens and Boeing announced a strategic alliance for the joint development and marketing of smart grid technologies to improve energy access and security for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Foster Wheeler will use Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture to control a 190 MWe biomass boiler at the Polaniec Power Station in Poland.

Areva said it installed a safety-related digital instrumentation and control (I&C) reactor protection system at Duke Energy’s 2,538 MW Oconee station in South Carolina.

Electric utility companies are installing digital electronic devices and communications gear to make the nation’s electric grid “smarter.” These efforts include deploying advanced relaying and automated monitoring systems to make the grid more reliable and creating technology-based partnerships with other innovators to help customers better manage their energy use.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) are combining their inquiries into the causes of rolling blackouts and natural gas delivery disruptions caused by cold weather in February in the Southwest.

Invensys Operations Management signed an agreement with China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. Ltd. to provide control systems for two 1,000 MW nuclear power units under construction in southeast China.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission opened a staff inquiry into recent electric power outages and restrictions of natural gas and electricity service in Texas and other western states.

Texas regulators ordered an investigation into rolling blackouts that struck the state's electric grid on Feb. 2 and 3, including whether market manipulation played a role in disrupting natural gas and electricity supplies .