The Biomass Power Association (BPA) said if the Environmental Protection Agency’s adopts its proposed Boiler MACT rule, it could bring an end the biomass industry and decrease the likelihood that the U.S. would meet its renewable energy goals.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved Pacific Gas and Energy’s (PG&E) 25-year power purchase agreement to buy electricity from the 150 MW Rice Solar Energy facility and from a planned biomass conversion project, both in California.

Plans for a solar and biomass plant have been shelved in California.

Drax, the UK’s biggest power station, plans to convert of its six coal fired boilers to use exclusively biomass if the government offers a more robust system of subsidy.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said 97 of the nation’s 104 operating commercial nuclear power plant units were performing in the two highest categories.

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.