Shares in industrial alkaline fuel cell maker AFC Energy have risen on the company’s announcement that it has started electrical power generation at AkzoNobel's Bitterfield plant in Germany.
The global carbon market value rose 4 per cent in 2011, despite the largest market, Europe, experiencing a price slump, according to analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.
According to the Tehran Times, Homayoun Haeri, Managing Director of Iran Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Management Company (TAVANIR), said that Iran plans to connect its national power grid to Russia by March 2013.
Pakistani Federal Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar has said that the government has set a target of 1500 MW from wind power generation by 2013 and procedures have been simplified in order for investors to reach the target.
The UK government's planned changes to solar power subsidies may deal the industry a "fatal blow", two separate parliamentary committees have warned.
German utility RWE AG and Russian giant OAO Gazprom have ended talks aimed at creating a joint venture to build and operate power plants in Europe after failing to agree on a deal, Bloomberg reports.
Indian officials from the controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu have said that power generation from the project is expected to take 'some time.'
China’s Goldwind has announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide 23 low wind speed Permanent Magnet Direct Drive (PMDD) wind turbines to Mainstream Renewable Power for Mainstream Negrete project (phase one) in Chile.
Jochen Flasbarth, president of the Environmental Protection Agency in Germany and adviser to the German government during its nuclear phase-out, has defended the policy and said the UK’s continuing support for nuclear will hurt its domestic wind and solar industry.
The New South Wales electricity industry will receive consideration from the state government on the recommendations from Australia’s Special Commission of Inquiry.