With a value of more than €250 million, the project provides for the supply of an integrated system which includes an automatic driver system and 27 rubber-tyred metro trainsets in order to address the expected increase in traffic over the next few years.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg inaugurated the world’s largest CO2 capture test facility – partially based on Alstom’s Chilled Ammonia technology – at the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) on May 7, 2012. Alstom is one of two suppliers selected to build and test CO2 capture facilities, which are located near Bergen, by TCM’s partners Gassnova, Statoil, Shell and Sasol.

Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012, Alstom booked €21.7 billion of orders, up 14% compared to last year. As announced, the fourth quarter was particularly strong with €6.6 billion of new contracts.

Alstom Bharat Forge Power Ltd. (ABFPL), the joint venture company between Alstom and Bharat Forge, has secured an order worth over €250 million (INR 1570) crore for the supply to NTPC Limited of two units of 660 MW supercritical coal “turbine islands” in Solapur located in the state of Maharashtra in India. Alstom’s share of the contract amounts to approximately €125 million and will be booked in April 2012.

The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Paulo Portas and the President of the Portuguese agency for Foreign Trade and Investment AICEP, Mr. Pedro Reis joined Alstom executives on April 17 at the company’s manufacturing workshop in Setubal, Portugal to announce the company’s plans to invest close to €12.5 million in expanding and further upgrading the technical capabilities of the Setubal facility. This expansion will create 130 direct and indirect jobs in the region.

Alstom and the Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (Strategic Investment Fund) are studying the joint purchase of 85% of Translohr, a Lohr group brand which specialises in the manufacture and marketing of tyre-based trams. Lohr SA, the parent company of the Lohr Industries group, would retain a 15% shareholding. The total amount of the deal would be around €60M.

Alstom wins France’s first offshore wind tender as part of the EDF EN consortium. Four factories will be created to supply 240 Haliade 150 wind turbines.

The Municipality of Amsterdam, owner of the local metro infrastructure, has awarded Alstom a contract to deploy its signalling technology on the four existing metro lines and on the new North-South line, currently under construction.

The new Alstom Transport site in Tarbes-Séméac in France was inaugurated on April 5, 2012 in the presence of Martin Malvy, President of the Midi-Pyrénées Region, Gerard Trémège, President of the Urban Community of Grand Tarbes and Mayor of Tarbes, Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom, Henri Poupart-Lafarge, President of Alstom Transport and Christophe Florin, Site Director.

Alstom Transport will manufacture 28 Coradia Continental regional trains for the German operator Deutsche Bahn Regio NRW GmbH. The contract is worth approximately €140 million . This is the first stage of the frame contract signed in 2011 with DB Regio for the delivery of up to 400 trains.

Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom, has declared his great satisfaction at the SNCF’s signing of the contract option for 40 additional double-deck Euroduplex very high speed trains on Friday 30 March.

On 19 March, Alstom inaugurated the largest offshore wind turbine in the world, at Carnet in the Loire-Atlantique. The ceremony was attended by Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom.

He was appointed in his new function on 19 March by the Supervisory Board of ALSTOM Deutschland AG. Mr Wulf was previously Chairman of the Board at Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG.

Ronan Stephan will join Alstom as Group Chief Innovation Officer on 22 March 2012. Ronan Stephan will report to the Corporate Senior Vice President Strategy of Alstom.

He joined Alstom, and as from 1 March, 2012 he will be Chairman of the Board of Alstom Switzerland. He is replacing Andreas Koopmann, who announced his departure in late 2011.

In July 2011, the French government launched a call for tender to install 3 GW of offshore wind power off of France’s Atlantic and Channel coastlines by 2015, and a total of 6 GW by 2020.

Patrick Plas will join Alstom Grid—the Group’s power transmission sector—on 1 March 2012 as SVP for Electronics & Automation.

Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom, addressed the audience of the 9th European Business Ethics Forum (EBEF) on 23 February 2012 in Paris. After underlining Alstom’s own achievements in the field of ethics and compliance, Patrick Kron highlighted the commitment of the OECD countries in the fight against corruption while ensuring fair competition.

Alstom and its consortium partners have signed a contract worth globally over €1 billion with Tanjung Bin Energy Issuer Bhd*, the wholly owned subsidiary of Malakoff Corporation Berhad, to provide a 1,000 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant at Tanjung Bin, Johor, Malaysia. Alstom’s share in this contract amounts to €830 million.

Starting on February 20th, 2012, Jacques Hardelay will join Alstom Renewable Power as Alstom Hydro Europe President. He will report to Jérôme Pécresse, Alstom Renewable Power President and Alstom Executive Vice-Président.

The total value of the contract amounts to €120 million, including €68 million for Alstom, the consortium’s leader, and €52 million for Cofely Besix FM. It includes an option for a five-year extension in the amount of €50 million

The total value of the contract exceeds 35 billion rubles (around €875 million). The scope of supply agreement signed by AAEM includes Alstom steam turbines ARABELLE, generators, condensers, moisture separator reheaters and auxiliary equipment.

The Land Transport Authority of Singapore has awarded Alstom a contract worth around €240 million to provide new trains for two metro lines, the Circle Line (CCL) and North East Line (NEL), along with signaling upgrade for both lines.

Over the third quarter 2011/12 (from 1 October to 31 December 2011), Alstom registered orders of €4.9 billion, confirming the sustained commercial activity of the past four quarters.

Alstom and the leading Scottish marine developer SSE Renewables have signed a new joint venture agreement to develop the Costa Head Wave Project, an up to 200 Megawatts (MW) wave energy site located north of mainland Orkney, in The Crown Estate’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Strategic Area.

Adif, the Spanish railway infrastructure manager, has awarded a contract globally worth around €280 million to the Alstom-led consortium to build and maintain for a period of 20 years the signalling and telecommunications systems for the high speed line Albacete-Alicante.

EDF Energies Nouvelles has today on behalf of a consortium consisting of strategic partners submitted four robust and realistic projects in response to the French offshore wind energy call for tenders.

Alstom Grid has been awarded a contract worth approximately €240 million by the Swedish utility Svenska Kraftnät for the 1440 MW South-West Link. The project will connect Barkeryd in central Sweden to Hurva in southern Sweden, using High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology.

On 16 December, Alstom signed with 18 international banks a €1.35 billion syndicated revolving credit facility with a 5 year maturity to refinance an existing undrawn €1 billion facility.

Nottingham City Council has awarded on 15 December a €680 million (£570 million) contract to the Tramlink Nottingham consortium to construct and operate two new tram lines, expanding the existing network by 17.5 km.