World Power Generation

Global energy consumption plays an important role in determining the price of energy on today’s global market.  We give you the latest power generation statistics for each country monitored by the world energy council and world energy research.

World Power News

Japan steel body urges restart of nuclear reactors

22/02/2012 An industry body for Japan's steelmakers, the nation's biggest electricity users, urged the early restart of nuclear power plan...

Closure of coal power station could cost US state $18bn

22/02/2012 Closing the Navajo coal power generating station in northeastern Arizona could cost the US state $18bn or more, should the powe...

Kier BAM JV joint venture wins $160m nuclear contract in UK

22/02/2012 A joint venture (JV) of British construction group Kier and BAM has won a GBP100m ($160m) contract from France’s EDF Energy to ...

$143m Indonesian coal fired power plants set for operation

22/02/2012 Indonesian state electricity utility PT PLN will start operations of a new 2x265MW mine-mouth coal-fired power plant located in...

The Carbon Trust teams up with GE in $5bn clean tech drive

21/02/2012 GE (NYSE: GE) has joined up with UK not-for-profit group The Carbon Trust to launch a $5bn clean tech innovation fund.

First US power producer to enter China now eyes exit

21/02/2012 AES Corp (NYSE: AES), the first U.S. power producer to enter China about two decades ago, is looking to sell all or some o...

Apple plans to build America’s largest solar panel farm

21/02/2012

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has revealed ambitious plans to build America’s largest solar panel farm.

Kier wins nuclear power plant construction contract

20/02/2012 British construction group Kier (KIE.L) has won a £100m ($158m) contract from France's EDF (EDF.PA) to prepare the ground for c...

Saudi renewable energy strategy awaits approval

20/02/2012 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has yet to approve the country’s renewable energy strategy that aims to reduce crude oil used for d...

Iran and Pakistan plan $718m electricity transmission network

20/02/2012 Iran and Pakistan have agreed to invest $718m in a network for transmitting electricity from Iran to its eastern neighbor,the T...

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