GSE Systems, Inc. was awarded a total of $3.3 million in contracts to provide nuclear power simulator upgrade services for companies in the U.S., China and Europe.

EDF could face "massive" new investment to extend the life of its French nuclear reactors from 40 years to 60 years, the country's safety authority has warned, reports the Financial Times.

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.

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.