The Indian state of Karnataka hopes to commission the third unit of the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BTPS) before July 2014 in its bid to ease the severe power shortage in the state.
Renewable energy sources can play an important role in increasing India's energy security, according to The World Bank. It said 68 000 MW of power costing less than Rs 6 per unit can be generated in the subcontinent.
Shell, Petrofac and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) have joined an ambitious bid to turn Peterhead power station into the UK’s first carbon capture and storage plant, which would see carbon dioxide emissions pumped into an empty North Sea gas field.
Dong Energy A/S, Denmark’s biggest utility, has inaugurated its first power station in the UK, the gas fired Severn Power station at Uskmouth in south Wales.
Toshiba’s US business has secured a $500m hydro power equipment supply deal with Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison.
Sempra Generation's ambitious Mesquite Solar 1 project is scheduled to begin construction in mid-2011 and will be completed by 2013.
Iran’s electricity generation capacity has increased to 60 000 MW after the inauguration of a new gas unit in Semnan’s combined cycle power plant in northern Iran.
Brazil is seeking proposals for natural gas power plants barely two months after releasing an official energy plan that said the country would not build new electricity projects powered by fossil fuels.
The rate of wind turbine installations slowed 7 per cent last year, though almost 36 GW of wind capacity was installed worldwide, according to figures released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed into law a programme of long-term incentives for the building of new gas fired power plants in the state, despite opposition from within the US's largest electricity market.