Electricity shortfall in Pakistan has reached the 2000MW mark. Load shedding in urban areas of the country has been extended to 5 hours a day, and to 8 hours a day in rural areas.
California utilities can now purchase some of the benefits of renewable energy without actually purchasing the energy itself. That’s the gist of a move by the California Public Utilities Commission to allow utilities to use tradable renewable energy credits (TRECs) to meet the state’s ambitious renewable portfolio standard.
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced that his department will provide $154 million to boost a carbon capture and storage facility in Thompsons, Texas.
US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has signed an agreement with Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), Poland's largest power company, to collaborate on a plan to build nuclear power plants in Poland.
European carbon emissions futures have risen following the return of very cold weather, boosting demand for electricity generation and thereby carbon permits.
Britain’s first factory making turbine blades for offshore wind farms will go into production in Newcastle this year, the US renewables group Clipper Windpower said.
Two American companies have teamed with a Chinese company to develop a $1.5 billion wind farm project in west
IBM claims to have developed a thin-film photovoltaic cell with high efficiency where the key absorbing layer is made entirely of readily available elements.
Significant increases in the generation charges of the Philippine state-owned National Power Corporation (Napocor) and IPPs that supply Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has prompted the country’s largest power distributor to increase rates.