Vattenfall's planned demonstration CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) power plant at Jänschwalde in Brandenburg, eastern Germany is to receive up to €180m of funding from the EU Commission.

SunPower Corp. is designing and building a 1 MW solar power system in California. Project finance includes multiple funding sources, including clean renewable energy bonds and qualified energy conservation bonds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

A U.S. House of Representatives Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee heard testimony March 16 that the U.S. faces a potentially serious shortage of rare earth metals, without which next-generation wind turbines, hybrid vehicles, cell phones and national defense technologies don’t work.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to change its rules regarding how pressurized water reactor (PWR) operators can determine how likely a reactor vessel is to fail during a pressurized thermal shock (PTS) event.

Pattern Energy Group LP acquired the 283 MW Gulf Wind project Gulf Wind from Babcock & Brown. Gulf Wind includes 118 wind turbines and is on the Gulf Coast in Kenedy County, Texas.

Ameren Corp. (AEE) will file an application to combine three of the company's Illinois units into a single public utility that would be called Ameren Illinois.