Hawaii Electric Light Co. (HELCO) and Hu Honua Bioenergy have signed a power purchase agreement to provide Hawaii Island with 21.5 MW of capacity fueled by biomass.

Apple has won state approval for a 20 MW solar farm, the largest proposed solar installation in North Carolina near its data center in Maiden.

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).

El Salvador could see the addition of 689 MW of renewable generating capacity through 2026 according to a renewables development master plan.

Brazil-based Cteep said it plans to add 10 GW of biomass power generation to its transmission network by 2017.

Pittsburgh-based International Electric Power LLC (IEP) signed an agreement with the government of Haiti to form a public-private venture in a power generating facility that will remove waste from the streets of Port au Prince and provide 30 MW of reliable, green, baseload electric power fueled by municipal solid waste.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. (B&W PGG), has received full notice to proceed for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power plant and environmental control equipment for the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Pratt and Whitney Power Systems said it has been awarded a contract to deliver a 13 MW biomass heat recovery power plant for West Fraser Timber Co. in British Columbia, Canada.

New York state’s largest on-farm, "co-digestion" biogas power project was officially unveiled on May 1.

NTE Energy was issued a patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its biomass hybrid technology on April 24.

Ener-G Natural Power and Biogas Technology, both units of UK-based Ener-G Holdings Plc, completed a 3.2 MW landfill gas-to-electricity project in Mexico.

Covanta Energy Corp., a global owner and operator of energy-from-waste projects, has announced the completion of commercial demonstration testing of a gasification technology.

ThermoEnergy Corp. signed a term sheet to form a joint venture with Logica Eko, a green solutions company in Colombia, to turn landfills into biogas energy production sites.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced a new goal to deploy 3 GW of renewable energy – including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal – on Army, Navy, and Air Force installations by 2025.

Areva was awarded an undisclosed amount of money to develop a bioenergy solution.

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Imperative Energy Ltd., a provider of biomass heat and power solutions in the UK and Ireland, said it is expanding its presence in the U.S. market with the announcement of two corporate milestones.

Stockton CoGen Co., a 60 MW coal-fired power plant that has been operational in Stockton, Calif. since 1988, will be retired in a couple weeks.

The 20 MW Biomass Cogeneration Facility, powered by Ameresco, Inc., has started production at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, S. C. The project, which replaces a coal powerhouse that previously generated power at the site, is one of the largest renewable Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) in U.S history.