Americas
* Oil major BP has agreed to buy the 525 MW Whiting Clean Energy combined-cycle cogeneration plant in Indiana for $210 million from NiSource (Reuters, 7/1).
* Dynegy and LS Power's proposal for Georgia's first coal-fired plant in more than two decades, Longleaf Energy Station, stalled as a judge rejected an air-pollution permit for the $2 billion project (Houston Chronicle, 6/30).
* Spain's Gas Natural has reached a deal to sell 15% of its Mexican subsidiary to Sinca Inbursa, which is controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, for EUR47 million ($74.2 million) (Reuters, 6/30).
* NRG Energy announced it has completed major improvements at its Cos Cob plant in Fairfield County, Conn., that have added 40 MW of clean capacity to the site (FoxBusiness.com, 6/26).
* JEA, the eighth largest community-owned electric utility in America, is planning to spend $600 million on a gas-fired plant in Jacksonville, Fla., that would boost the area's power by 17% within the next five years (Florida Times-Union, 6/30).
* Progress Energy has named Mark Mulhern cfo, replacing incumbent CFO Peter Scott, who plans to retire in the latter part of the third quarter (Thompson Financial, 6/26).
Europe
* Babcock & Brown Wind Partners has acquired four German wind farms with a capacity of 19.6 MW (TheAge.com.au, 7/1).
* Gazprom is looking into the possibility of implementing power generation in Europe with a total capacity of 3 GW. The Russian behemoth is so far considering 10 projects across Germany, the U.K. and Italy (rbcnewsonline.com, 6/26).
Asia/Pacific
* India has formed a federal ministry focused on alternative and renewable energy. The ministry is seeking to generate at least 10% of India's power from solar over the next several years (EE Times, 7/1).
* Queensland Gas Co. has defined more than a third of the required gas reserves it needs for a proposed $8 billion LNG development with BG Group (Sydney Morning Herald, 7/1).