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.

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.