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.