An ad-hoc alliance of over 700 firms, labor unions, industry associations, civil society groups and governments is demanding Canada’s provincial premiers to join forces for designing a Canadian energy strategy, which will help the country to become a leader in clean energy.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        A research team from UNED has devised a technique to fabricate a fuel cell component that enables surpassing the power target set by the US Department of Energy for 2017.
     
 
    
    
        
        Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today will file with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) a proposed two-year energy efficiency portfolio that, if approved, would enhance the company's industry-leading programs. The proposal would allow PG&E to invest $433 million per year – about the same as current levels – for two years to continue energy efficiency programs that would enable customers to realize energy savings equivalent to more than 277 megawatts (MW) of electricity and 52 million therms of natural gas.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        Alcoa, a leading manufacturer of alumina, fabricated aluminum and primary aluminum has agreed to sell its 351-MW Tapoco Hydroelectric Project to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners handles one of the largest pure-play and publicly-traded renewable power platforms. 
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        Israel Chemicals (ICL) has reported that the company’s ICL Fertilizers division has finalized its proposals to construct a 250 MW combined cycle cogeneration power facility in Sdom.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        A research team at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has developed a new solid-oxide fuel cell that can produce electricity by converting hydrogen and is also capable of storing electrochemical energy just as a battery. The fuel cell can generate power for a shorter period even after the fuel exhaust.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        According to a new study from Frost & Sullivan's U.S. Energy Challenges for 2020 research, energy consumption in the United States will rise by 7.3% over a 10-year period when compared to 2010 levels.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        Coca-Cola in collaboration with Fuji Electric Retail Systems has developed the "A011" peak-shift vending machine as part of the "Apollo" ultra-energy-saving vending machine development project.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        Synthesis Energy Systems (SES), a global provider of equipment, engineering services and technology for converting low cost, low rank coal into chemical products and energy, has completed laboratory-scale testing of Turkish lignite coals for clean power generation projects in Turkey.
     
 
    
    
    
    
        
        Global Information (GII), an information service company, has announced the release of two market research reports on smart grids and smart metering. The reports find that deployments of smart grids are softening all over the globe due to lack of government stimulus funds and completion of existing projects. 
     
 
 
    
                    
                
                
                    
    
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