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), ...

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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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, TEXAS - Two utility groups, including units of Southern Co and SCANA Corp, said they filed applications for separate licenses to build and operate new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South ...

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - U.S. engineering company Fluor Corp said it was awarded a contract to design a 46 megawatt solar thermal plant for eSolar Inc. Terms of the contract were not announced. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A top adviser to President Barack Obama said that Congress needs to pass a sweeping energy bill to spur the development of renewable energy while curbing the emissions that ...