Electricity generation is a process that involves the production of electrical power through various sources. In the United States, power production from utility-scale generators was about 4.1 ...

Electricity markets in the Southeast are facing many changes on the customer side of the meter. In a new report released today, we look at how energy efficiency, photovoltaics (solar electricity), ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate broke with Barack Obama as it voted to keep alive a grant program to help people in rural areas receive reasonably priced electricity despite the president's demand to ...

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - Dominion announced plans to develop a 300-megawatt wind generation facility in Central Illinois. Prairie Fork Wind Farm would feature 150 to 200 turbines constructed across ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden ...

- U.S. power plants will burn 2.6 percent less coal in 2009 than they did last year as the recession trims electricity generation and plants turn to cheaper natural gas, the country's top energy ...

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Santa Claus and other supporters of proposed legislation comprising the Energy Independence Strategy (EIS handed out compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) at Independence ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Elected leaders in New York City will propose a suite of laws and other initiatives on aimed at reducing energy consumption and related emissions ...

ALBERTA - Electricity shortages loom on the horizon if Canada rushes to phase out coalfired power in favour of cleaner alternatives, warned the CEO of power generator TransAlta. TransAlta, CanadaÂ’s ...

BEIJING, CHINA - China's output of solar cells jumped to more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in 2008, accounting for 44% of the world's total. In 2008, the global output of solar cells reached 6.85 GW, which ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The two foreign companies bidding to rebuild reactors at Darlington need to show they will create and preserve Canadian jobs, Premier Dalton McGuinty said. "If you're bidding from ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America announced that they have crossed the 1,000 megawatt (MW) threshold for owning and operating wind farms in the United States.