Largest Single Roof-Mounted Solar Array In The USA
Atlantic City NJ (SPX) Jun 24, 2008
The Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority (ACCVA) has announced that it has awarded Pepco Energy Services a 20-year power purchase agreement with the Atlantic City Convention Center (ACCC) to install the largest single roof-mounted solar array in the United States. "With each step we take, the ACCVA continues to embrace green initiatives and stand at the forefront of the environm ... read more
Massive East Timor Land-For-Biofuel Plan Raises Hackles
Dili (AFP) Jun 24, 2008
East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant. The agr ... more
Japan Airlines plans biofuel test flight
Tokyo (AFP) June 23, 2008
Japan Airlines (JAL) said Monday that it will join a project by US aircraft maker Boeing to test biofuel for commercial airplanes as part of efforts to cope with soaring jet fuel costs. JAL, Asia's largest carrier, will fly a Boeing 747 partly using biofuel by March next year, the company said, adding that it will be the first such flight in Asia. "The technology to produce biofuel from ... more
Hong Kong govt plans to scrap fuel tax for public transport
Hong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2008
Hong Kong's government announced on Monday a plan to waive fuel taxes for public and commercial transport, following days of demonstrations by truck and bus drivers over surging oil prices.
The authorities hoped to get an approval from the legislature on scrapping taxes on Euro-five diesel by the end of next month, secretary for transport Eva Cheng told the city's lawmakers Monday. ... more
Evergreen Solar Introduces New ES-A Series String Ribbon Solar Panels
Marlboro MA (SPX) Jun 24, 2008
Evergreen Solar has introduced its new ES-A Series Solar Panels at its booth during InterSolar 2008 in Munich, Germany, June 12-14. This new line of 200, 205 and 210 W solar panels features the most powerful products Evergreen Solar has produced. And with a -0, +5W specification, the ES-A Series also provides the best power tolerance currently available in the industry. The ES-A series is ... more
Mitsubishi Electric PV Modules Chosen For Solar-Powered Rice Plant
Cypress CA (SPX) Jun 24, 2008
Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics USA provided over 5,500 photovoltaic (PV) modules for a one megawatt solar electric system at Far West Rice Mills in Nelson, Calif. The system is expected to deliver 1,440,000 kWh a year, approximately 70 to 80 percent of the plant's total energy need. The multi-million dollar solar project, installed by Pacific Power Management of Auburn, Calif., qualifies fo ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Repair of Slovenian nuclear power plant according to law: plant official
CIVIL NUCLEAR
RWE, Electrabel file binding offers for stake in Bulgarian nuclear power plant
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Analysis: Middle East nuclear renaissance?
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US Airways signs code-sharing deal with Air China
Washington (AFP) June 23, 2008
US Airways said Monday it had signed a code-sharing deal with Air China Limited that affects routes including Beijing-Los Angeles and San Francisco-New York. US Airways will also put its code on connecting flights to Shanghai through Air China's Beijing hub under the deal Air China will put its code on US Airways flights from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Phoenix, Arizona; Las Vegas, ... more
Hazard of old mobile phones under spotlight at UN meet
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) June 23, 2008
The disposal of massive numbers of unwanted mobile phones will be a key focus of a five-day meeting on waste management which started Monday in Indonesia, organisers said. The fate of the more than three billion of the gadgets in use today will be discussed by more than 1,000 delegates from 170 countries at the meeting on the Basel Convention in Bali, a statement said. Delegates to the ... more
China stresses price stability after fuel hikes: official
Shanghai (AFP) June 23, 2008
China's top economic planner has urged local authorities to ensure goods prices remain stable after the government hiked fuel prices by as much as 18 percent. The National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its website that local officials should closely monitor liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas, whose prices were not increased. Local governments should also ... more
Australia must strengthen India ties: foreign minister
Sydney (AFP) June 23, 2008
Australia must strengthen its relationship with India, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Monday as he repeated his government's decision to refuse to sell uranium to the south Asian power. Australia's new Labor government has said it will scrap a landmark deal, negotiated by former conservative prime minister John Howard in his final months in power, to sell uranium to India for its nuclea ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Analysis: Talisman signs with Iraqi Kurds
SOLAR DAILY
Donated Solar Electric Systems To Aid Habitat For Humanity Recipients
SOLAR DAILY
Solar Monkey Wins Project To Provide 3 MW Of Solar Power
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Bullion Monarch Mining Begins Construction Of Oil Shale Demonstration Plant
Orem UT (SPX) Jun 24, 2008
Bullion Monarch Mining is pleased to announce it has begun construction on a pre-production demonstration plant to extract oil from oil shale. The plant is anticipated to demonstrate a scale feasibility of producing oil from oil shale at a target cost of below $30 USD per barrel. EnShale has a patent pending extraction process that uses coal gasification, a clean coal technology, as a heat ... more
Stratos Renewables Comments On Advantages Of Sugarcane Ethanol
Lima, Peru (SPX) Jun 24, 2008
Stratos Renewables has commented on the recent controversies surrounding the corn ethanol industry. Studies on corn ethanol published in, among other sources, Science magazine, and recent reports about the delays in the openings of corn ethanol facilities are mounting. The consensus in many of these reports is that the greenhouse gas benefits of ethanol have been greatly overstated - parti ... more
Surging prices may force more people from homes: UNHCR
Nairobi (AFP) June 20, 2008
The head of the UN refugee agency warned Friday that instability created by surging oil and food prices may force increasing numbers of people from their homes in search of basic necessities. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in addition to conflicts, new challenges like global warming and poverty had also added to the growing refugee crisis. "Recent food and fuel ... more
EU CO2 emissions drop 7.7 percent from 1990 levels: EAA
Paris (AFP) June 20, 2008
Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union dropped 7.7 percent from 1990 to 2006, even as the use of carbon dioxide-intensive coal increased, the European Environment Agency said Friday. If the EU maintains this pace, it would very nearly fulfill its Kyoto commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by eight percent compared to 1990 levels before 2012, the Copenhagen-based Agency said in ... more
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FROTH AND BUBBLE
Italy announces opening of controversial landfill site: report
ENERGY TECH
Even Texan oilmen think energy supplies have to be diversified
ENERGY TECH
Rebels abduct four French nationals in Niger
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