Progress Energy Florida Estimates Fuel, Nuclear And Environmental Costs For 2009
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Sep 05, 2008
Rising fuel prices, environmental improvements and planning for additional carbon-free nuclear power to meet future growth will increase the cost of electricity next year, Progress Energy Florida has announced. If state regulators approve the company's 2009 fuel-cost projections, clean-air expenses, nuclear pre-construction costs and other factors, the residential monthly bill for 1,000 ... read more
Nuclear suppliers reconvene in Vienna on US-India deal
Vienna (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
Nuclear supplier nations began a two-day meeting here Thursday to try and hammer out consensus on lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with India. After the US failed to drum up sufficient support for its proposal to start civil nuclear cooperation with India at a meeting last month, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which controls the export and sale of nuclear technology ... more
Indian opposition demands PM quit over US nuclear deal
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
India's main Hindu nationalist opposition Thursday demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quit, accusing him of misleading parliament over a key nuclear pact with the US. The deal, which seeks to allow India to buy nuclear technology and reactors after a gap of three decades, has sparked many stormy debates since it was clinched in 2006. The fresh controversy was triggered by a report in ... more
Kansas Utilities Work On Major High-Voltage Transmission Project
Hays KS (SPX) Sep 05, 2008
Mid-Kansas Electric Company (Mid-Kansas) and Sunflower Electric Power Corporation (Sunflower) have reached an agreement with ITC Great Plains (ITC Great Plains) designating ITC Great Plains to build two of the three sections that will comprise the proposed Kansas V-Plan transmission project. ITC Great Plains will build two sections of the Kansas V-Plan. The first section is a transmission ... more
Angola's oil fields fuel economic growth
Luanda (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
Long ignored by foreign investors except China, oil-rich Angola is riding on growing foreign interest, prompting the government to play the competition card and distance itself from Beijing. "Obviously, the Angolans don't want to offend the Chinese who remain an important business partner, but relations between the two countries have cooled," said Lucy Corkin, projects director at the Centre ... more
Singapore says free trade talks with China concluded
Singapore (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
Singapore and China have successfully concluded negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement, the city-state said in a statement Thursday. It said the bilateral deal builds on a free trade agreement already reached between China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which Singapore belongs. The agreement with Singapore "is the first comprehensive ... more
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CAR TECH
PowerGenix Supplies Batteries To Light Electric Vehicle Market
ENERGY TECH
Palm oil firms' moratorium rejection threatens orangutans: activists
ENERGY NEWS
Global Marine Systems Targets Energy Sector
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Flowserve And Linde Group Deploy Natural Gas Refueling Systems In Europe
Dallas TX (SPX) Sep 05, 2008
Flowserve has announced it has entered into a joint venture agreement with The Linde Group to commercialize and deploy iKompressor natural gas and biogas refueling systems. Called Flowserve Compression Systems GmbH, the joint venture plans to deliver at least 70 iKompressor refueling systems by 2009 to Germany, Austria, and neighboring European Union (EU) countries. The iKompressor systems ... more
Fiat plans to boost ties with China, India: reports
Milan (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
Italian car maker Fiat is in talks with Chinese companies about possible partnerships and is considering further tie-ups in India, Italian media reported Thursday, citing the company's chief executive. Fiat is in discussions with "a certain number" of potential partners in China, chief executive Sergio Marchionne said, cited by Italian media on the sidelines of a car show in New Delhi. ... more
EESTECH And AGL Energy To Use Australian Waste To Energy Technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2008
EESTECH and AGL Energy Limited have signed an MOU to establish a demonstration project using EESTECH's patented Hybrid Coalmine Gas Technology (HCGT). HCGT utilizes ventilated coalmine methane gas that would otherwise be vented to the aosphere, as a fuel source to generate reliable, cost-effective and cleaner forms of energy. Methane gas has a global warming potential that is 21 times more ... more
Destiny, Florida Creates State's First Energy Farm
Delray Beach FL (SPX) Sep 05, 2008
Destiny, Florida, has announced it has created Florida's first sustainable energy farm. Destiny's Energy Farm will be a learning center where 21st century farming technologies and practices are showcased and designed to produce energy crops like sweet sorghum, algae, jatropha and other crops for alternative fuels. Destiny, a 41,300-acre, proposed self-contained green community, will be ... more
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TRADE WARS
Coca-Cola deal major test for China's new anti-monopoly law
ENERGY TECH
Analysis: Turkey courts Turkmen energy
ENERGY TECH
Analysis: Nigerian oil regains top spot
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Hanna leaves 61 dead in Haiti as more storms brew in Atlantic
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Sept 3, 2008
Helicopters rescued survivors from rooftops in the flooded Haitian city of Gonaives as Tropical Storm Hanna claimed at least 61 lives, the third major storm to hammer Haiti in as many weeks. Hanna left scenes of devastation with hundreds of homes destroyed amid desperate rescue efforts as forecasters warned the storm could strengthen into a hurricane before it heads to the southeastern US co ... more
China building rush may have led to weak quake schools: govt
Beijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2008
Schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake may have been substandard structures hastily built in a construction frenzy, China conceded Thursday, as it said the death toll could top 87,000. Ma Zongjin, director of the expert committee on the May disaster, said schools could have collapsed because their "structure was not necessarily up to standard," and "the material was not necessarily ... more
Global Warming Greatest In Past Decade
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 04, 2008
Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1700 years. "Some have argued that tree-ring data is unacceptable for this type of study," says ... more
Key Discovered To Cold Tolerance In Corn
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2008
Demand for corn -- the world's number one feed grain and a staple food for many -- is outstripping supply, resulting in large price increases that are forecast to continue over the next several years. If corn's intolerance of low temperatures could be overcome, then the length of the growing season, and yield, could be increased at present sites of cultivation and its range extended into colder ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Bush surveys storm-hit Louisiana as evacuees trickle home
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Saving Lives Through Smarter Hurricane Evacuations
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
US disaster chief: Don't come home too soon
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