The state of Gujarat, India, has experienced an unprecedented 545 per cent growth in wind power generation capacity between 2006 and 2011, moving from a mere 338 MW to 2175.5 MW in half a decade. The state currently produces around 15 per cent of the total wind power generation in India.
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.
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.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forewarned that the global consequences of abandoning nuclear power would be greater costs, emissions and power uncertainty.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced almost $2 billion in conditional commitments for loan guarantees for two solar thermal projects.
Turkey’s MetCap Energy Investments planning to build an integrated combined solar-natural gas plant, based on GE’s latest combined cycle technology.
The share prices of European renewables companies surged after German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country will double its 2020 renewables target and close its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022.
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.
UK MPs have criticised the government’s current power market reforms and cast doubt on their ability to deliver enough investment for improved energy infrastructure, in a climate change committee report.