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Oregon Health and Science University announced a wide-ranging plan to cut costs after patient numbers fell short of projections. There will be staff cuts, OHSU president Joe Robertson announced Monday afternoon.

A federal jury on Monday cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago.

The global economic turmoil has started having an impact on the wind energy industry in europe, new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan says. Some companies are cutting down forecasts and production for 2009 and the market is showing the first signs of slowdown, Frost says, although it adds that the situation will have positive effects like a reduction in turbine prices due to falling raw material prices, and the reduction of delivery times of components.

SunPower Corporation, a manufacturer of solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced it has signed a customer contract with German solar power plant integrator City Solar Kraftwerke AG. Over the next three years, SunPower will provide City Solar with solar panels and commercial rooftop and ground mounted systems.

Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica has received several orders from the Spanish utility group Endesa for the supply of approximately one hundred wind turbine generators, amounting to the installation of 190 megawatts (MW) of power.

Iran is proposing to develop nuclear power plants in co-operation with neighboring Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region, in the midst of increasing international pressure to halt its nuclear program.

The world's largest producer and exporter of crude oil, Saudi Arabia, has set $75 per barrel as a fair price for the commodity, marking the first time in years that the kingdom has set a price target, reported Reuters.

Indian infrastructure major GVK Power and Infrastructure has announced that it is ahead of schedule for the completion of its INR20.69 billion Alaknanda hydro power project in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, according to The Economic Times.

The World Bank’s vice president for the Africa region, Obiageli Ezekwesili, knows her name is so complicated most people won’t even attempt to pronounce it.

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