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.
Russia's Gazprom will attempt to gain entry into European generation markets after Germany's recent decision to phase out nuclear power, its export chief said.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced almost $2 billion in conditional commitments for loan guarantees for two solar thermal projects.
American Electric Power (AEP) has said it plans to retire nearly 6000 MW of coal-fired power generation as part of its efforts to meet new regulations proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Turkey’s MetCap Energy Investments planning to build an integrated combined solar-natural gas plant, based on GE’s latest combined cycle technology.
Qatar has formally dedicated the Ras Qartas Energy Plant, the biggest gas fired power plant in the country and the region.
GE has announced what it is calling a “first-of-its-kind power plant” engineered to deliver an unprecedented combination of flexibility and efficiency. The ‘FlexEfficiency 50’ combined cycle power plant is rated at 510 MW and is said to offer fuel efficiency greater than 61 per cent.