HILO, HAWAII - One of the most expensive public works projects in Big Island history was awarded to a Houston firm that has been vying to build a garbage-to-energy incinerator for the county similar ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - TransCanada has agreed to buy a large New York power plant from utility National Grid for around $2.9 billion. National Grid is divesting the 2,480 megawatt gas-fired Ravenswood ...

SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia will require more than $200 billion over the next 15 years in the power generation and water desalination sectors as the growing middle-class population and the ongoing ...

SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA - San Carlos wants residents and business owners to get some sun this summer - and protect the environment in the process. The city has partnered with Foster City-based ...

KANSAS - A yearlong dispute over two proposed coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas appears headed back for a Kansas Supreme Court review because of an administrative ruling. The ruling by the ...

PARK CITY, UTAH - Cabinet leaders in the Obama administration promised to help western states develop a robust system for delivering renewable energy. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the West has ...

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - Dozens of protesters were arrested near Duke Energy's headquarters as they called on the company to halt construction of a coal-fired power plant in western North Carolina.

MONTAGUE, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - The death of a man at an electrical substation in eastern Prince Edward Island was not a workplace accident, says Maritime Electric. An investigation is underway into ...

Although single-phase power is more prevalent today, three phase is still chosen as the power of choice for many different types of applications. Generators at power stations supply three-phase ...

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - Duke Energy is going to tap a landfill in Durham for methane gas that will be turned into electricity. Duke said it had signed a contract with Methane Power, a renewable ...

BEIJING, CHINA - China Guangdong Nuclear Power and its partners, including Shanghai-listed Shenergy, agreed to build a nuclear power plant in the central province of Anhui to cater to rising energy ...