Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed into law the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard for Solar Energy and Solar Water Heating Systems bill, which accelerates the target date for achieving the state’s renewable portfolio standard 2 percent solar carve-out by two years.

NRG Systems, a provider of wind measurement products, has announced that it will reduce its workforce by 18 employees in response to ongoing uncertainty and volatility in the global wind energy industry.

The U.S. Department of Commerce May 17 imposed more tariffs on solar panels and modules imported from China.

Texas posted a 13 percent increase in renewable energy generation, from 28 million MWh in 2010 to 31.7 million MWh in 2011, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

A new survey finds that Americans are willing to pay more in their electric bills in order to support the switch to renewable energy sources.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas offers a glimpse into how the markets are doing domestically and internationally.

For vendors interested in taking part in the nuclear power expansion in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will explain its oversight process during a workshop June 28, 2012 in Baltimore.

The Brazilian government said May 9 that it would not build any new nuclear power plants before 2020.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is launching a special inspection at Progress Energy’s Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina after two main steam isolation valves failed in April.

In preparation for a warmer and drier than average summer, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has released plans to use nearly 2,000 MW of mothballed capacity for an indefinite period of time.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) said it has completed Phase 2 of a Pre-Project Design Review of Candu Energy Inc.’s 700 MW, Generation III Enhanced CANDU 6 (EC6) reactor.

Eaton Corp. released its Blackout Tracker Annual Report for 2011, saying that California topped the list of states with the most outages in 2011, followed by Michigan and New York.

Staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) have released a report analyzing the September 2011 blackout that left 2.7 million customers in Southern California, Arizona and Baja, Calif. in the dark.

Rocky Mountain Power LLC, which owns the Hardin coal-fired power plant in Montana, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on April 23.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) on April 24 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission to strengthen safety standards through technical cooperation and information exchange in nuclear regulatory matters.

American Electric Power held its 105th annual meeting of shareholders April 24, 2012, in Tulsa, Okla., the home of AEP subsidiary Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO).

Environmental groups filed a complaint in a federal appeals court April 18 asking the court to block a combined construction and operating license (COL) for two new reactors at Southern Co.’s Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

RWE Chief Executive Juergen Grossmann on April 19 said the German utility has filed a legal complaint against the government's nuclear exit bill at the Constitutional Court.

The U.S. wind industry’s 2011 Annual Market Report reveals that the U.S. wind industry installed 6,816 MW in 2011, a 31 percent increase from 2010.