Electricity generation is a process that involves the production of electrical power through various sources. In the United States, power production from utility-scale generators was about 4.1 ...

VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA - Disturbance of archaeological sites is a possibility during the construction of the city's massive new hybrid gas-solar power plant north of the airport. At a recent meeting ...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC - ICP Solar Technologies Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary solar panels and products, announced that the Company has signed an agreement worth $500,000 for ...

Electricity markets in the Southeast are facing many changes on the customer side of the meter. In a new report released today, we look at how energy efficiency, photovoltaics (solar electricity), ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - After years of failure in giving light bulbs away, the Ontario Liberals have come up with another dim bulb idea. If free won't work, then maybe a gun will. By 2012, the province ...

BANGALORE, INDIA - Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India's largest engineering and construction conglomerate, has recently clinched a deal valued at $144 million with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited ...

ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA - Southern California Edison (SCE) signed a 20-year contract with DCE, an affiliate of Caithness Energy, which will provide up to 909 megawatts of wind power. Developers say that ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden ...

- U.S. power plants will burn 2.6 percent less coal in 2009 than they did last year as the recession trims electricity generation and plants turn to cheaper natural gas, the country's top energy ...

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Santa Claus and other supporters of proposed legislation comprising the Energy Independence Strategy (EIS handed out compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) at Independence ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced the Marine Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2009 in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced companion ...

ALBERTA - Electricity shortages loom on the horizon if Canada rushes to phase out coalfired power in favour of cleaner alternatives, warned the CEO of power generator TransAlta. TransAlta, CanadaÂ’s ...