ITALY - Italy is set to become the first European country to achieve grid-pricing parity in the solar energy field. The ...

ARIZONA - The largest solar electric generating plant in the United States could be built in Arizona under a plan announced ...

ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND - An unused paper mill is set to become Scotlands latest biomass project as the ...

AUSTRALIA - Developing countries are intensifying the pressure on Australia and other wealthy nations to promise to cut ...

By the end of 2008, the Italian government announced plans for the return of nuclear power generation to the country by 2020. In February 2009, Enel and EDF signed a memorandum of understanding for ...

FRANCE - Canadian power producer Boralex Inc said it had, along with its European partner Cube Infrastructure Fund, acquired three wind farms in France to add 47 MW of capacity for about $115 million.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - Temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and higher forecast for August 13 across Texas may push electric use in the state to an all-time record, according to the grid operator. The ...

INDIA - India was one of the pioneering countries in Asia to implement hydroelectric power stations. As far back as 1898, one of the first hydropower plants in the region, generating only 130 ...

OHIO - Electric power company FirstEnergy Corp. said it plans to spend $200 million to convert two units at an eastern Ohio power plant to burn renewable biomass like wood chips and crops grown as ...

ONTARIO - The rush to plug green energy sources into Ontarios electricity system has produced an ad hoc approach to choosing generating systems that will unnecessarily increase the cost of electricity ...

FRANKFURT, GERMANY - German companies launched carbon dioxide scrubbing from flue gases at a coal fired power station operated by utility RWE in western Germany. The launch of the pilot plant to test ...

FRANCE - French energy company Total SA offered to pay up to $1.37 billion for a majority stake in U.S. solar company SunPower Corp, one of the biggest moves ever by an oil and gas giant into the ...