Alstom has been awarded a contract worth around €500m by RWE Power to supply two boilers for its Eemshaven power plant in the Netherlands.

Evergreen Solar intends to significantly ramp up its manufacturing operations by building a new facility on the campus of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough, MA.

Goodrich Corporation has been awarded a contract from the US Army to design, develop and deliver an InGaAs technology for use in infrared night vision cameras.

The IEC, the global body for electrical energy standards, is recruiting experts from around the world to develop international standards for wave and tidal energy technology.

Pratt & Whitney has announced that it will be providing Pure Power PW1000G engines for up to 40 new Bombardier CSeries aircraft ordered by Lease Corporation International.

Scientists from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have proposed a novel triple-junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 per cent conversion efficiency barrier.

Surrey NanoSystems has secured second-round funding of £2.5m to commercialise a low-temperature growth process for carbon nanotubes that can be used as interconnectors in semiconductor devices.

GE Energy’s first 7H gas turbine has completed testing and is on its way to the Inland Empire Energy Center near Riverside, California.

Nordic Power Systems (NPS) has developed what it claims to be the first fuel-cell generator that can operate on commercial fuels such as diesel and bio oils.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched England’s first hydrogen buses in the capital, with an aim to make all London buses zero emission by 2030.