India intends to more than double its renewable power capacity to almost 53 GW by 2017.

A new £9.5m ($15m) wave and tidal energy centre is to be opened in Scotland.

The European Investment Bank is to provide $30m towards the upgrade of a 341 km transmission line in Zambia.

State-owned Dena Energy Agency says that utilities operating in Germany should not be permitted to close unprofitable gas-fired power plants to safeguard supplies.

Two power generating units, set to deliver 800 MW each are to be developed by a Japanese consortium after the group won the contract in Taiwan.

Siemens has received its first wind turbine order from Chile, for a total capacity of 115 MW, at the El Arrayán wind power project, l400 kilometers north of Santiago.

Hydropower holds the key to energy integration between South American countries, according to Brazil’s energy minister Altino Ventura Filho.

Swedish-Swiss group, ABB, has won an order worth around $33m from NTPC Limited, India’s largest power company, to build two substations in western India.

American gas utility Sempra Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) is to join forces with BP Wind Energy NYSE: BP to develop the Auwahi Wind farm in Hawaii, US as part of an ongoing strategic partnership in wind generation development.

China Sunergy has completed delivery of 5 MW in solar modules for the Yerussalimovo solar park in Bulgaria.

The US has voted to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese solar panels, with duties expected to range between 31 and 250 per cent.

Royal Dutch Shell says it expects gas prices in the US to double in the next three years.

There was further bad news for the 1300 MW Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania, as the project is now predicted to cost $2.6bn more than originally expected.

E.ON has announced the sale of its Open Grid Europe gas distribution network in a deal worth €3.2bn ($4.06bn).

UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry has conceded that part of the government’s Electricity Market Reform plans could fall foul of European Commission state aid rules.

Brazilian firm Wind Power Energia (WPE) has confirmed it has received the second and final part of a $150m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.

Denmark has joined the Global Smart Grid Federation, an international group of technology associations.

A Japanese town’s local assembly has voted in favour of enabling a nuclear power plant to re-open.

German utility E.ON AG plans to shut down three large gas-fired power plants in southern Germany, because the plants don't operate profitably.