The Chilean minister of Energy, Ricardo Raineri has been quoted as saying by El Mercurio that his government's energy policy will seek to secure around 20 per cent of the country’s power production from renewable energy sources by 2020.

The White House unveiled a new report, "The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy through Innovation," which says that because of the Recovery Act’s $100 billion in investments, the U.S. is now on track to achieve four major innovation breakthroughs, including cutting the cost of solar power in half by 2015 and doubling U.S. renewable energy generation and manufacturing capacity by 2012.

State-controlled Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) said it approved the award of 14.7bn riyals ($3.92bn) of power projects to meet rising demand.

Retail sales of electricity in the U.S. during June rose 8.0 percent compared to June 2009.

TEDAS, Turkey's state-owned electricity distributor, has called for bids to finalize country's power grid sell-out.

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.