American Electric Power (AEP) said it was putting a hold on its plans for a commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage project in West Virginia, USA because of uncertainty surrounding US climate policy and what the company described as a weak economy.
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) has released its “2011 Global Status Report”, which said that renewable energy supplied 16 percent of total energy usage and 20 percent of electricity generated globally in 2010.
Vietnam’s state-run Petrovietnam has awarded two contracts worth a combined $1.2 billion to two subsidiaries to build a 1200 MW coal-fired power plant.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees of $4.5 billion to support three AC Cadmium Telluride (Cd-Te) thin film PV solar generation facilities to be located in California.
Heavy energy using Japanese companies are changing working hours and shifting production to weekends to save energy as the country’s first mandatory power-saving drive since the 1970s starts.
The Saudi Arabian government has announced that it has signed a nuclear energy cooperation deal with Argentina.
Ghana is to increase power generation from the current 3000 MW to 5000 MW by 2015 in order to become a net exporter of power.
China's five largest state-owned power generating groups have continued to rack up losses in their thermal power generation businesses, despite the Chinese government raising power prices in April, the China Electricity Council (CEC), an industry group that represents power generators and distributors, said.
Janusz Lewandowski from Poland, the EU Budget Commissioner, has said that he has major doubts over the existence of global warming, and this looks to be certain to affect the drafting of EU policy over the years 2014-2020.
A recent study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests that the energy industry could bring an economic boom to the US state of Wyoming.