MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO - In pursuit of its long-term sustainability goals, to produce zero waste and to be powered 100 per cent by renewable energy, Walmart Canada announced that its home office has ...

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 ...

OHIO - Ohio has greater-than-expected potential for wind power, according to a new federal study. The latest modeling shows that a number of areas in Ohio have sufficient wind at heights of 100 meters ...

SAGUENAY, QUEBEC - Rio Tinto expects that a dry winter in the Saguenay region of Quebec will force its aluminum division to increase energy purchases this year from the provincial utility despite flat ...

UNITED KINGDOM - The UK has reached a milestone of installing 1 gigawatt GW of offshore wind farms – enough to power 700,000 homes. It was achieved this week as two new wind farms off the coast began ...

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), ...

OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE - U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, RTenn., wants the Department of Energy to consider housing a small, modular nuclear reactor in Oak Ridge. According to the senator, a 125megawatt ...

SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK - Several people who live on the lower west side of Saint John want to know if they'll be compensated after their electronics and appliances were damaged by an unusual power ...

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 ...

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 ...