The Department of Energy, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, offered First Wind a conditional loan guarantee for $117 million to finance the construction of a 30 MW wind farm in Hawaii that will also have on-site storage.

The new Canadian federal budget fails to include money for a production tax instrumental in supporting wind energy projects.

NRG Energy Inc. has signed a binding letter of intent to buy the 101 MW South Trent wind power farm in Texas.

Renewable electric power industry experts joined PennWell power group editors Feb. 23-25 2010 in Austin, Texas to discuss technology, markets, finance, project development and more.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Black & Veatch developed an analytical tool to identify important factors that need to be considered in more detailed transmission modeling studies.

Exelon agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by the Illinois attorney general after three of the company's nuclear power plants reportedly leaked tritium-contaminated water into the ground.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded grants to three companies for conceptual design and planning for its Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).

Florida Power & Light (FPL) is studying a delay in the construction of two proposed nuclear reactors at the company's Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Florida and may reconsider seeking a federal loan guarantee.

Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) of South Korea and Turkey’s Elektrik Uretim (EUAS), the two countries’ state power companies, have signed of a co-operation agreement to develop nuclear power in Turkey.

Vattenfall has signed an agreement to sell its subsidiary 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, which owns and operates Vattenfall’s German transmission grid, to the Belgian transmission system operator Elia and to the Australian Industry Funds Management (IFM), one of the largest global infrastructure investment managers.