Dong Energy A/S, Denmark’s biggest utility, has inaugurated its first power station in the UK, the gas fired Severn Power station at Uskmouth in south Wales.
Sempra Generation's ambitious Mesquite Solar 1 project is scheduled to begin construction in mid-2011 and will be completed by 2013.
Brazil is seeking proposals for natural gas power plants barely two months after releasing an official energy plan that said the country would not build new electricity projects powered by fossil fuels.
The rate of wind turbine installations slowed 7 per cent last year, though almost 36 GW of wind capacity was installed worldwide, according to figures released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
UK power project developer Renewable Energy Generation Ltd. has seen its stock jump 28 per cent after it announced it had turned down a takeover offer valuing the company at 67.7 pence a share.
UK energy regulator Ofgem has announced a £95 million upgrade of Scotland’s high voltage grid.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) would be more economically viable than oil-fired electricity generation in oil-rich Gulf states, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
Global investment in clean energy reached a record of $243 billion in 2010, a 30 per cent increase on 2009 levels, according to research house Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
Eighty companies have signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for generation of 950 MW of solar power in the Indian state of Gujarat, according to Pranav Mehta, founder and chairman of the Solar Energy Association of Gujarat.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in the Philippines has given the green light for the establishment of renewable energy projects in its freeport worth $125 million, officials have said.