BANGALORE, INDIA--November 23, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--India's leading auto components manufacturer Bharat Forge Limited (BSE:500493) (Pune, Maharashtra), part of the $2.4 billion Kalyani Group (Pune), has announced plans to enter the domestic power sector. The company is likely to make investments of $10.82 billion within the next decade to set up facilities that will generate 10,000 megawatts (MW) of power. Bharat Forge, which manufactures machine and forged components, has identified locations in coastal Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.

Other companies featured: Alstom SA (EPA:ALO), NTPC Limited (BSE:532555), Areva SA

GALWAY, IRELAND--November 23, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Licenses for Russia's first civil nuclear power and heating plant have finally been granted. The plant will be constructed in Seversk, in the Tomsk Oblast region of southwestern Siberia. Seversk is the location of the Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises and contains older nuclear reactors and chemical plants for the separation, enrichment and processing of uranium and plutonium. The two remaining operational plutonium-production reactors, used by the military but also supplying heat and power to the city, were shut down in April and June this year under a nonproliferation treaty signed between Russia and the United States in 2003.

Companies featured: Alstom SA (EPA:ALO)

SUGAR LAND--November 11, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Energy and transport infrastructure company Alstom SA (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France) and oilfield services company Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) (Houston, Texas) recently announced that they have signed an agreement for a mutual collaboration under which they will study the technical readiness of power plants to accommodate carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems developed by Alstom. The study will identify steps that a power plant must take to adapt to the CCS systems, evaluate potential storage sites for carbon dioxide (CO2), and also assess the future costs of transporting and storing CO2. The joint offering has been designed so that power plants can incorporate CCS in the future and secure environmental permits easily. Alstom has signed agreements with several power, utility, and oil and gas companies in the U.S. and Europe since 2006 to test CO2-capture technologies, including American Electric Power Company Incorporated (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio), The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) and StatoilHydro ASA (NYSE:STO) (Stavanger, Norway).

GALWAY, IRELAND--November 6, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 47.1-megawatt (MW) Chancy-Pougny Hydropower Plant, owned and operated by Societe des Forces Motrices du Chancy-Pougny SA (Geneva, Switzerland), is gearing up for the replacement of two of the facility's five turbine units in early 2011. The replacements are projected to take about four years, with completion estimated for 2014.

Other companies featured: Andritz AG (WBAG:ANDR), Alstom SA (EPA:ALO)

GALWAY, IRELAND--November 5, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Alstom SA (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France) has secured two contracts worth a total of 450 million euros ($665.7 million) from Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG (GKM) (Manheim, Germany) for the supply of boilers and turbines to GKM's supercritical coal-fired combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Mannheim power station is a combined heat and power (CHP) facility with an installed capacity of 1,675 megawatts (MW). The site has been used for power generation for more than 85 years and generates about 1,000 MW of power and heat.

Other companies featured: RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY), MVV Energie AG (ETR:MVV1)