Central America is still heavily dependent on oil to generate the region’s electricity, according to IPS. Costa Rica is the exception with 80 per cent of its production derived from its hydropower fleet.

CoaLogix, Inc. and Cormetech, Inc. have signed an agreement to combine their technical, service and marketing experience to provide long-term emissions control solutions to fossil fuel power plants.

China now tops the United States as the fastest growing wind power market in the world for the first time in four years, according to a report by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the vast amounts of natural gas, that could be principally derived from shale in Latin America means that gas could replace coal in power generation across the world.

Each month, we take a look at how much electricity is generated in the electric utilities and independent power producer (IPP) sectors, as well as by what source.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said 97 of the nation’s 104 operating commercial nuclear power plant units were performing in the two highest categories.

Analysis shows average wind speeds over parts of the UK during the past year have been at or close to historical lows. Conversely, a number of factors in the U.S. caused noticeably intensified domestic wind speeds across much of the Western U.S. compared to the first quarter of 2010.

RWE Innogy and German Pellets have inaugurated RWE's biomass-fuelled cogeneration station and the neighbouring pellet plant at the Wittgenstein industrial estate in Germany.

Spanish company Iberdrola Engineering & Construction has secured a contract for two electricity power lines, each 220 km of length in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, as well as two substations associated with the 750 MW La Yesca hydroelectric plant.

FuelCell Energy has announced the sale of a 1.4 MW DFC1500 fuel cell power plant to G3 Power Systems for installation at the Olivera Egg Ranch, a poultry farm located in French Camp, California, US.