Already the nation's largest municipally owned user of wind energy, San Antonio's CPS Energy last week signaled its intent to build what would be the largest solar installation in the U.S., if not the world, notifying bidders that an originally proposed 50-megawatt project has been expanded to potentially 400-megawatts.

The project would be four times larger than what is currently the largest solar installation in the world, a 97-megawatt project in Ontario, Canada.  

Kobelco Compressors Manufacturing (Shanghai) has increased production capacity at its compressor plant in Shanghai, China. A new 600 million yen ($756,000) manufacturing line has been completed and has started commercial operations.

Tennessee Valley Authority has negotiated an agreement to buy, subject to TVA board of directors' approval, the 968 MW Magnolia Combined Cycle Gas Plant in northern Mississippi from Kelson Limited Partnership, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kelson Energy Inc.

The three-unit, natural gas-fired electric generating plant is located on a 374-acre site in Benton County near Ashland, Miss., and has been a source of purchased power for TVA since the plant began operation in 2003. Kelson has owned the facility since 2005.

Energy Technology Ventures – a GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips joint venture – is providing capital to Emefcy Ltd, an Israeli company that can turn wastewater treatment from a huge energy drain to an electricity generator.