Nanosolar Inc. has announced the completion of a 1 MW ground-mounted solar installation at Camp Roberts, a California's National Guard training facilities, located in San Miguel, Calif.

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) announced $500,000 available in 2012 to support a project to deploy and test a wave energy conversion device for one year at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site on the island of Oahu.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array.

U.S. Geothermal Inc., a developer, seller and producer of geothermal energy, said that its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, TAS Energy Inc., has started performance testing on the new 8.6 MW San Emidio power plant in Nevada.

Wisconsin Energy said it expects the 615 MW Unit 1 at the Elm Road coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin to be back online by the end of May.

Southern California Edison and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego said they will collaborate on a project to gather seismic data off the coast near the two-unit, 2,200 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and ECN, an energy research institute in the Netherlands, have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to strengthen their collaboration in the field of wind energy research.

The Energy Department announced $9 million available in 2012 to help utilities and grid operators better forecast when, where, and how much solar power will be produced at solar energy plants.

Air Liquide was chosen to supply and build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system at a 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Queensland, Australia.

NRG Systems introduces its wind energy operations and maintenance monitoring system called TurbinePhD.

Vestas will add three 300 kW V27 research wind turbines to a new research project at the Sandia National Laboratories’ Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWIFT) facility, which is in partnership with Texas Tech University and Group NIRE.

Electricité de France SA said April 6 that it had fixed a leak detected at a nuclear power plant in France.

Southern Co. began testing technology to support development of advanced ultrasupercritical boilers.

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission has voted unanimously to approve proposed construction of a 479-foot-tall, 5 MW wind turbine generator prototype in the lower Chesapeake Bay, three miles off the coast of Cape Charles, Va.

Exelon Nuclear operators returned Unit 1 of the 2,345 MW Limerick Generating Station to full power March 25, marking the conclusion of the station’s spring refueling outage.

Ohio State University and Southern Co. have signed a collaborative testing agreement to demonstrate the high-pressure syngas-to-hydrogen chemical looping process.

AWS Truepower LLC including Central America, Mexico and South America to support wind project development in those markets.

Ontario Power Generation on Feb. 7 shut down Unit 8 at the 3,100 MW Pickering nuclear power plant for a planned maintenance outage.

The Center for Energy in the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering has received a $22 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.