FuelCell Energy has announced the sale of a 300 kW DFC300 fuel cell power plant and a five year service contract to LOGANEnergy, a fuel cell energy services company that will install the fuel cell power plant at the frozen food processing facility of Carla's Pasta in South Windsor, Connecticut, US.

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply three Wärtsilä 20V34SG gas engine generator sets, producing a combined output of over 26 MW,  to Cabin Gas Plant Power Generation Project in British Columbia, Canada, 

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.

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.

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.

Several global firms proposed investment projects in the electricity sector in the war-torn Iraqi city of Basra including Germany's Siemens.