Drax Group has said it is ready to significantly boost its renewable power generation to switch the Drax power plant to mainly biomass-fuelled generation, if the UK Government makes it affordable through subsidies.
Desert Sunlight Holdings has received an approval from the USA Federal Department of Interior for building the 550 MW Desert Sunlight solar farm in California.
US venture capital investment in clean technology, including power generation, shrank 44 per cent to $1.1 billion during second quarter 2011 compared to the same period last year, according to analysis from Ernst & Young.
Sempra Generation has signed a power purchasen agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas & Electric of San Francisco to sell the utility 150 MWs of electricity generated at its Copper Mountain Solar complex in Boulder City.
Studies by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest that new technologies intended to increase use of renewable energy could destabilise the power grid if they are not matched with careful pricing policies.
The UK has built more offshore wind power generation in the first six months of 2011 than any other country in the world, accounting for almost all the offshore turbines erected so far in Europe this year.
The Australian firm Syngas and the Chinese company Kailuan Energy Chemical have announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent. The companies aim to implement above ground coal gasification and coal-to-liquid projects, and to successfully develop and operate biomass power generation projects.
Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda has vowed to maintain Japan’'s pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, despite uncertainty hanging over Japan’'s power generation future in the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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.
Analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Annual Global Power Generation Forecasts 2011, shows that electricity generation will expand at a growth rate of 2.7 per cent through 2020, with the growth rate declining to 1.8 per cent per annum over the subsequent decade, as growth rate in the emerging markets becomes less pronounced and energy-efficiency measures begin to have a significant impact.