NV Energy and Waste Management have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for the sale of renewable energy produced from a three-megawatt landfill gas-powered project to be located southeast of Reno at Waste Management’s Lockwood Landfill.

Supply chain solutions provider Wincanton has strengthened its relationship with two of the UK's biggest petroleum and industrial gas suppliers through extensions worth £112m to its distribution contracts with Chevron and Air Products.

Prime Sun Power (PSP) has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of a 25Mw photovoltaic power plant in Italy. The sale is expected to generate gross revenues of over E100m in 2010.

Fluor Corporation and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group (B&W PGG), an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, have formed a strategic alliance with Fluor's power group to market and sell carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the US and Canada.

SPG Solar has named Chris Robine as its senior vice president and CFO. Mr Robine replaces Paul McKnight who will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Mr Robine has experience in managing complex corporate finance and renewable energy.

The EDF Group and Total have signed an agreement whereby Total will reserve regasification capacity in the planned Dunkirk LNG terminal being developed by Dunkerque LNG, a wholly-owned EDF subsidiary, and will also acquire an interest in the company.

Oil and gas company Rheochem has acquired the remaining 50 percent shareholding of Zeus Petroleum in a cashless transaction. Following this transaction, Rheochem's fully owned exploration and production subsidiary, Lochard Energy, now owns 100 percent of Zeus.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Poland-based power company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) have signed a new agreement to collaborate on Poland’s initiative to build next-generation commercial nuclear power plants.

Gazprom has signed a cooperation agreement with the city of Perm Krai for an indefinite period. In addition, the parties will create in the region an energy-saving program providing for the utilization of energy-saving technologies and modern gas-powered facilities.

Technip, an operator of gas and oil engineering, technologies and projects, has bagged a flexible pipe supply contract from China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the Lufeng 13-1/13-2 oil fields, located in the South China Sea.