According to the China Electricity Council (CEC), China generated almost 3.9 billion MWh of electricity in May, up 2.7 per cent year on year.
The Japanese government has approved plans to restart units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Ohi nuclear power station in western Japan, after a month without nuclear power for the first time in 40 years.
United Technologies Corporation has announced that it intends to sell its power generation assets for about $1 billion.
Renewable energy sources supplied 16.7 per cent of the total energy consumed in 2011, though investment into renewables was still 15 per cent lower than the $302 billion put into fossil fuels, two reports published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) have said.
The Iowa Supreme Court in the USA has upheld a regulatory decision that allowed the state’s largest utility to undertake a huge expansion of wind energy utilisation, rejecting a challenge from a rival company that claimed that the expansion was unnecessary and unfair to other energy producers.
Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has announced a provision of $1.4 billion in the budget for the state power sector.
German solar power plants produced an unprecedented 22 GW of electricity through the midday hours of Friday 25th and Saturday 26th of May, equivalent to 20 nuclear power stations running at full capacity, Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster has said.
The New Zealand Government has announced that it will invest $4.6 billion over the next 10 years in upgrading the national electricity grid.
Wingas GmbH, one of Germany’s largest importers of natural gas, claims the German government needs to improve investment conditions for gas-fired power plants if it is to ensure continued energy security.
Natural gas is likely to be Australia’s new fuel source of choice in the face of a move away from coal-fired plants, prompted by the country's looming carbon tax, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P).