A consortium led by Lontra has received a £1.5 million Energy Catalyst grant from Innovate UK to apply its Blade Compressor as turbo compounding to improve fuel efficiency of 1MW power generation engines. The project takes the technology through concept to hardware and testing.

Ballard Power Systems bought the remaining shares of its Danish subsidiary Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S, formerly Dantherm Power, from Dansk Industri Invest for a nominal value, giving it 100% ownership. The subsidiary is based in Hobro, Denmark.

BITZER, the refrigeration compressor maker, announced the acquisition of ElectraTherm, a Reno, Nevada company making Organic Rankine Cycle waste heat to power generators. The deal gives BITZER a US subsidiary entry into the waste heat to power market.

Jiangsu Suzhou Newcon Valve has won supply contracts from CGN Engineering for nuclear island valves for units 3 and 4 of the Fangchenggang Hualong One project in Guangxi, covering about 8,000 valves. The contracts were signed in October and December 2016.

Neway Valve (Suzhou) signed a supply contract with AREVA for nuclear valves for the HPC nuclear power project in Britain, co-invested by EDF and CNPE. The order covers over 2,000 nuclear valves for the nuclear island of two units with 3.2 GW total capacity.

Moby S.p.A selected Wärtsilä to repower passenger ferry MV Moby Zaza, supplying four auxiliary generating sets, seawater cooling, exhaust silencers and fuel systems, with commissioning and integration.

Wärtsilä will supply a 40 MW Smart Power Generation plant in Mendoza, Argentina, for Methax S.A., owned by Grupo Galileo, under a turn-key EPC order worth about EUR 25 million. The order was booked in Q4 2016 and announced on 4 January 2017.

In 2017 MPOWER acquired a contract to supply valves to COLBUN S.A., one of Chile's leading electricity producers, for a project in Chile.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded Andritz Hydro a contract worth $6.82 million to modernize and overhaul three original pressure relief valves at the Hoover Dam, with work starting in October and lasting about three years.

Hunosa signed an agreement with Hunaser to advise bottler Aguas Fuensanta on installing a biomass system at its Nava plant in Asturias, expected to cut energy costs by 22% and emissions by over 640 tonnes of CO2 a year.

Wärtsilä will supply a 100 MW combined heat and power plant to Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden in Mainz, Germany, using ten Wärtsilä 34SG gas engines. The plant is scheduled to be fully operational by end-2018, and includes EPC scope and a 15-year service agreement.

Doosan Heavy Industries signed a 1.053 trillion won EPC contract for the Fadhili Combined Heat and Power Plant in Saudi Arabia, disclosed on December 19, 2016. The contract runs until November 30, 2019 and equals 6.5% of recent revenue.

KSB's joint venture SEC-KSB Nuclear Pumps & Valves won a 'triple-digit million euro' order from CNNC subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering to supply six RSR 750 reactor coolant pumps for the first two units of the Zhangzhou nuclear plant in Fujian, announced 15 December 2016.

KSB, via its China joint venture SEC-KSB Nuclear Pumps & Valves, won a triple-digit million euro order from CNNC subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering to supply six RSR 750 reactor coolant pumps for the first two Hualong One units at Zhangzhou, Fujian, with delivery in 2020-2021.

Siemens received an order from Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation to supply two Industrial Trent 60 gas turbines and generators for the Bayonne Energy Center, which supplies power to New York City. The order also extends Siemens' long-term service contract.

Norther N.V. took final investment decision on the 370 MW Norther offshore wind project and awarded MHI Vestas Offshore Wind a firm contract to supply 44 V164-8.4 MW turbines. The project is about 23 km off Zeebrugge and is due to be commissioned in 2019.

Sempell GmbH was awarded a contract to supply 6 pressurizer safety relief valve stations and 6 main steam relief isolation valve stations for Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant units 3 and 4 in China. The Hualong-1 reactors are based on a three-loop design.

NTPC Limited issued a Notice of Award on 14 December 2016 to the NTPC GE Joint Venture (NASL) and GE Power Services for shaftline retrofits and modernization of three 200 MW steam turbines at the Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station in Telangana, India. The total contract value is $64.51M, including $29.22M for GE Power India.

Doosan Heavy Industries has won a 160 billion won contract to upgrade the performance of Boryeong thermal power plant unit 3 in South Korea, covering design, manufacturing, installation and performance guarantee. Work is planned to finish by May 2019.

Ormat Technologies signed a $36 million EPC contract with a subsidiary of Cyrq Energy to supply one air-cooled Ormat Energy Converter for the Soda Lake 3 geothermal project in northern Nevada, expected online in the first half of 2018.

Velan was awarded supply contracts for forged, high-pressure ASME Class 1 nuclear valves from several Chinese nuclear engineering companies. The orders are worth about €33 million (US$36 million) and are for five nuclear power plants, with delivery in 2018 and 2019.

Dresser-Rand, part of Siemens, received orders to supply five gas turbine-driven compressor trains to Mexican developer Fermaca for pipeline stations in La Laguna, Coahuila and Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi.

Generac Holdings signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Celle-based Motortech, a maker of gaseous-engine control systems employing over 250 people, with closing expected in Q1 2017, announced November 28, 2016.

Velan's French subsidiary in Lyon was awarded contracts to supply nuclear-class valves to several Chinese nuclear engineering firms for new reactors, with orders valued at about $36 million, recorded in backlog November 28, 2016, with deliveries in 2018-2019.

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries has won a contract believed to be worth £20m to manufacture 60 steel foundation jackets for the East Anglia One offshore windfarm off the East Anglian coast, safeguarding 200 jobs at its Belfast shipyard.

Alfa Laval won an order worth about SEK 50 million to supply separators, pump modules and a water treatment system for an integrated solar and combined-cycle plant in the Middle East. The order was placed by a Spanish contractor, with delivery scheduled for 2017.

VBMS, a Boskalis subsidiary, and NKT Cables were awarded a TenneT contract to supply and install two export cables connecting Borssele offshore wind farms 1 and 2 to the Dutch grid, with Boskalis's share worth about EUR 70 million.

Metso has signed an agreement for a comprehensive valve delivery for the Kilpilahti Power Plant in Porvoo, Finland.

Unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, the 789 MWe BN-800 fast neutron reactor, has started commercial operation, state corporation Rosatom announced. The reactor burns mixed uranium-plutonium fuel.

Metso signed an agreement to deliver about 150 on-off and control valves for the Kilpilahti combined heat and power plant in Porvoo, Finland, planned for commissioning in 2018. The order value was not disclosed.

Belgian company Keppel Seghers will supply waste-to-energy technology for an extension of a waste energy installation near Shenzhen, Guangdong, worth about $26.7 million. The plant is due for completion in 2018.