AES Corporation, a Fortune 200 global power company, is divesting power plant assets with a combined capacity of 2,700 MW in Spain and New Jersey, U.S. Aggregate proceeds from the agreed sale of its 100% interest in the Red Oak and Ironwood plants and its 80% interest in the Cartagena CCGT are estimated to total $463 million, it said.
China's largest landfill gas (LFG) power generation project, the Laogang LFG facility, will be powered by ecomagination-qualified Jenbacher gas engines. Seven of GE's Jenbacher J420 gas engines with a capacity of 10 MW each, will supply electricity to the new Laogang LFG facility located in Shanghai, GE Energy said.
PREdistribuce, the Czech electricity distribution network operator, has selected Siemens to implement a Smart Grid as a network control system to stabilise electricity supply in Prague's power grid. Siemens said it will implement the latest software version of the Spectrum Power network control system over the next three years.
Schmack Biogas, a German suppliers of biogas technologies, is close to finalising construction works of a 2.85 MW biogas-to-energy plant Tongere, Belgium. "We plan to get the plant ready to start full commercial operations in the second half of this year," Schmack Biogas sales representative, Gernot Buchta, told Gas-to-Power Journal.
Advanced Power, a developer and project financier of independent power plants, said today it will close its Hamburg office following the decision cease the development of its 1,200 MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant project in Wustermark, Germany. The development of a gas-fired power plant project in Bocholt will be managed from London.