There are mixed views on the impact of the UK’s draft energy bill due for release today. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has said that £110 billion of investment over the next decade is needed to boost clean electricity generation, but some are concerned the proposals will favour nuclear and especially gas over renewable sources such as offshore wind.

Siemens has received an order for a total of 50 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 115 MW for the El Arrayán wind power plant in Chile, a joint venture between Pattern Energy and AEI.

The fourth B2b Ontario Solar Summit will be an expanded affair this year with the inclusion of a sizable exhibition, according to presenter Solar Network International.

ThermoEnergy Corp. will be deploying a ThermoEnergy ARP™ (Ammonia Recovery Process) system at an award-winning biogas production plant outside of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

As part of President Obama's commitment to an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy for American-made energy, the US Energy Department has announced $500,000 available this year to test the technical readiness of technologies that can harness energy from waves to supply clean, renewable power to highly-populated coastal regions.

The energy ministers of the 27 EU Member States have agreed to cut the energy savings targets for 2020 outlined in the proposed Energy Efficiency Directive by almost 62%. For Spain’s Renewable Energy Foundation, this sharp reduction confirms that the criteria of the major utility and consumer lobbies have been imposed on these savings and efficiency targets.

Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Washington Fuel Cell Summit. The event will be held on 19 June in Washington, D.C. in the US.

In this exclusive interview, Juan Verde, Sustainability Advisor to the President of the United States, gives us an insight into his experiences, his vision for the sector and the boost the US government has given to renewables. "In a second Obama term, energy reform will probably be the priority for his administration," he says.