In a speech to the Canadian Club recently in Toronto, Ron Osborne, President and CEO of Ontario Power Generation, announced that the company is moving early to "decontrol" 4000 megawatts (MW) of its ...

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - California aims to avoid major economic shocks with its carbon cap-and-trade system slated to start in 2012, the state's chief climate change regulator said, adding that the ...

MONGOLIA - Chinese power firms plan to build three 3,600-MW (megawatt) coal-fired power plants in neighbouring Mongolia to meet growing electricity demands in North China. It is one of many projects ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The Progressive Conservatives plan to tell Ontario voters exactly how they would provide some relief from soaring hydro bills. The Tories have been promising to give families some ...

Following its Smart Grid Technology Innovation partnership, Alstom Grid and Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ, recently signed a license agreement to commercialise a key product: the MiCOM ...

ABB is supplying a network management solution that will monitor and control 134 renewable energy facilities that provide states and provinces across Canada and the United States with clean, ...

Greece has revealed plans to build the world's largest solar park, which will have a generating capacity of 200 megawatts MW. The plan was recently revealed by Greece's Prime Minister George ...

With April declared by Governor Gregoire as Safe Digging Month, Puget Sound Energy urges everyone to contact the 811 “Call Before You Dig” hotline to schedule a free utility locator service before ...

St. Louis-based AmerenUE said it is investigating newly discovered leaks of radioactive tritium from a pipeline at its Callaway nuclear power plant in Fulton, following half a dozen leaks from pipe ...

An inquiry cleared British climate researchers of wrongdoing after their emails were hacked, leaked and held up by skeptics as evidence they had exaggerated the case for manmade global warming. Former ...

The shipping area of the 80,000 square-feet production facility on ABB’s New Berlin, Wisconsin, Campus was the site for the state’s governor to sign new “wind siting reform legislation.” The bill ...

If the provincial government has $1 billion available, is an across-the-board cut in everyone's electricity bill the best way to spend it? Probably not. Yet that is what Finance Minister Dwight Duncan ...