American Municipal Power (AMP) plans to build a 600 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Ohio in the same location where it canceled plans for a 1,000 MW coal-fired power plant.

Fujairah Asia Power, which is partly owned by the UK's International Power and Japan's Marubeni, plans to start its $2.8bn power plant in the UAE by the end of the year.

State-controlled Saudi Electricity Co (SEC) will use 300m cubic feet per day (cfd) of gas instead of fuel oil to fire its planned 1800 MW Al-Qurayah power plant, a company executive said.

Researchers at the UK's Leeds University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a way to manage short-lived draws on the electricity grid with half the fuel usually needed.

Russia's E4 Group is to build a 400 MW gas fired combined-cycle power plant in Cherepovetskaya in a 17.8bn roubles ($592m) deal.

Areva has developed a technique for restoring the seat sealing surfaces on shut-off valves in nuclear power plants with the advantage of no longer having to remove the valves concerned.

GE Energy has launched a remote transformer monitoring and diagnostics service called Grid Cognos at the CIGRE Energy Industry event in Paris on Tuesday.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said that it will idle nine coal-fired electric generating units, totaling about 1,000 MW, at three of its power plants beginning in fiscal year 2011.

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.

Exelon’s 2,330 MW Braidwood nuclear power plant was back up and running as of August 23 after both units at the plant were shut down the previous week.