Egypt’s Electricity Minister Hassan Younis has reported that a total of 2500 MW, generated exclusively from wind power, will soon be added to the national power grid.
China's power generation industry is set for strong growth this year, the state-run Shanghai Securities News reported, citing the country's electric power generation trade association.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $5 million to support US wind energy development.
Japan and Kuwait have reached an agreement to cooperate in building nuclear power plants and encouraging the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Energy-hungry India is considering setting up an $11 billion fund to help finance the expansion of power companies' generation capacities.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) have jointly received an order for two steam turbine-generator sets, each rated at 1000 MW, for ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired power generation units of Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. (EWP).
Suncor Energy Inc has reached a deal to sell a number of UK offshore North Sea properties for about $390 million to an affiliate of Dana Petroleum plc.