The government of Haiti has signed a $250m partnership agreement with the "International Electric Power Company"for the construction of a 30 MW waste to energy plant in the capital city of Port - au-Prince to power the city and its environs.

The governor of the US state of Ohio, John Kasich has criticised the renewable-energy lobby in the state for an irresponsible self interest in objecting to cogeneration.

The US state of New Jersey is to allocate $55m in grants in the hopes of encouraging the development of combined heat and power systems (CHP) as well as hydrogen fuel cells for businesses and industrial companies.

Computer manufacturer Apple says 60 per cent of its electricity will eventually come from on-site power and criticized claims by Greenpeace that it’s HQ relies heavily on coal power generation.

With a geothermal facility already installed and by adding a field of solar panels, Oregon Institute of Technology's Klamath Falls campus will run 100 per cent on renewable energy produced on site.

Multinational US retailer Walmart has completed its 100th solar technology installation with the addition of six stores in Colorado, integrated and managed by SolarCity.

US President Barack Obama is seeking to fund a new green energy source by providing $5m to build cow manure based technology that will be used to fuel an ethanol plant in the state of Kansas.

2G CENERGY Power Systems Technologies Inc has announced that it received more US based orders during the past few months and is set to construct a new production facility in Florida, US.

Innovation of design has allowed FuelCell Energy to lower costs and make fuel cell technology more attractive.

Construction is continuing on a $208m biomasss cogeneration plant at Point Tupper, Canada, with the facility’s turbine due to arrive next month.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) has been awarded a contract to provide design services for the decommissioning, historic preservation and construction of the Old Main Utility Building (OMUB) Power Plant at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in Minneapolis.

The U.S. Clean Heat & Power Association is backing the introduction of H.R. 4017, the Smart Energy Act.

US college Bowdoin in Maine has announced that a new steam turbine in the campus central heating plant is up and running.