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 ...

TUNISIA - The plan to produce renewable energy in North Africa to power the continent and export excess capacity to Europe is advancing, the companies involved say. The advance comes despite unrest in ...

SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK - Several people who live on the lower west side of Saint John want to know if they'll be compensated after their electronics and appliances were damaged by an unusual power ...

MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS - Brookfield Renewable Power Inc., the Toronto-based energy company with 164 hydroelectric plants and wind farms in North America and Brazil, has not only decided to ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING, CHINA - China's output of solar cells jumped to more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in 2008, accounting for 44% of the world's total. In 2008, the global output of solar cells reached 6.85 GW, which ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The two foreign companies bidding to rebuild reactors at Darlington need to show they will create and preserve Canadian jobs, Premier Dalton McGuinty said. "If you're bidding from ...