UK wind power generation reached an all-time high of 3.36 GW this week, while gas-fired generation recorded the lowest generation level on record for a mid-afternoon weekday.
Utility firm RWE AG has announced details of its plan to group its power plants in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK into a single 50 GW pan-European power generation unit.
The Canadian government has announced a new array of carbon emissions regulations for coal-fired generation, set to take effect July 1, 2015. The new regulations will limit coal-fired power plants to no more than 420 tonnes of carbon dioxide per GWh.
GE Energy Storage and Xtreme Power have formalised a strategic alliance to work together to provide energy storage solutions.
Peter Kent, Canada’s federal Environment Minister, said that the country plans to start applying a new performance standard of 420 mt of CO2/GWh to its coal-fired power plants in 2015.
GE has announced plans to expand and enter the power supply business in Japan.
Fortescue Metals Group has confirmed the sale of its Solomon ore mine power station in Pilbara region, Western Australia, to Canada's TransAlta for A$294.9 million ($300m). Fortescue is trimming assets in order to raise the funds to meet its debt obligations in the face of slumping iron ore prices.
President Barack Obama has encouraged US government agencies to incentivise industrial energy efficiency through emissions trading, grants and loans, in an Executive Order signed last week.
A fire at the Agus Power Plant in Mindanao resulted in a shutdown of the units, and data from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines showed that Mindanao experienced a power deficiency of 320 MW.
Japanese Environment Minister Goshi Hosono has released Japan’s new post-Fukushima power strategy, which aims to boost the generating capacity of four renewable energy sources by more than six-fold and make it possible to eliminate all nuclear power, all by 2030.