Mississippi Power Co. is proposing to cap the cost of its proposed 582 MW Kemper County IGCC plant at $3.2 billion, or almost $5,500/kW. The cap would be around 30 percent higher than current cost estimates.

Ayrshire Power, owned by the UK's Peel Energy, has submitted plans to the Scottish Government to build a GBP3bn ($4.5bn), 1.6 GW coal fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Hunterston.

International Power's 40.5 per cent owned Paiton Energy has signed the financing for an 815 MW, coal fired Paiton 3 plant in Indonesia.

Kosovo's energy ministry has selected four international consortia to build a 1000 MW coal fired power plant to begin construction in early 2011.

Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) and Sindh Engro Coal Energy Company (SECEC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build a 1200 MW coal fired power plant at the Thar coalfield in Pakistan.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will spend nearly $2 million in fiscal year 2010 to investigate the potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas may have on water quality and public health.

19 March 2010 - Utilities in several US states have recently embraced new energy storage technologies as part of the deployment of advanced smart grids, reports the US Department of Energy (DOE) in its Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy newsletter. Smart grid and power storage technologies are seen by many as the key to the connection of large amounts of distributed generation capacity.

19 March 2010 - A new hydrogen fuelling station planned to be built by Air Products in Fountain Valley, California, is to incorporate FuelCell Energy's ‘DFC-H2’ fuel cell technology to produce clean on-site power and heat – and renewable hydrogen.

oomberg New Energy Finance’s new long-term projection model shows that based on current policy targets annual global expenditure on renewable energy projects will increase from $90bn in 2009 to $150b in 2020, and reach $200bn by 2030.