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Spanish Solar Company To Become One Of Largest In USA Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 03, 2009
Fotowatio has agreed to purchase the core US solar power assets - including the largest US solar photovoltaic installation, at Nellis Air Force base - of San Francisco-based MMA Renewable Ventures. Upon completion of the sale, Fotowatio's US business unit, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, will be one of the largest solar development companies in the United States as measured by megawatts in o ... read moreWalker's World: The EU's solidarity test
Berlin (UPI) Mar 2, 2009 The financial crash is becoming a defining moment for the European Union, an economic shock that is testing the system's political solidarity to the limit. Europe's banks and governments have inched painfully over the last week toward recognizing the need to rescue the fallen. If they do so successfully, the EU will become a different and altogether more coherent body. If they fail, it ... more
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Rio deal can help Australia: Chinalco boss
Sydney (AFP) March 2, 2009Chinalco's proposed 19.5 billion US dollar investment in Rio Tinto could help Australia fend off the global financial crisis, the Chinese firm's president said Monday. Visiting Australia to sell the deal, Chinalco president Xiong Weiping also sought to ease concerns about a state-owned Chinese entity taking such a huge stake in the country's resources assets. If approved, the deal will b ... more Kuwait to establish nuclear energy commission
Kuwait City (AFP) March 2, 2009The cabinet of the Gulf state of Kuwait on Monday approved legislation to establish a national commission for nuclear energy uses, an official statement said. The commission, to be headed by the prime minister, will design policies needed for a peaceful nuclear programme in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a statement by the cabinet said. The legislation must be ... more Industrial Nanotech Enters Solar Energy Market
Naples FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Industrial Nanotech has announced that the Company's "Nansulate Solar" is currently being specified on both solar panels and the pipes and tanks of solar hot water systems to increase efficiency and lower operating costs. "Field trials of Nansulate Solar began a year ago in March of 2008 by Universal Energy Group, Inc., located in Stockton, California," stated Francesca Crolley, VP of Oper ... more |
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Asia's biofuel dreams shelved as crude oil tumbles
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) March 2, 2009Hopes of a biofuel bonanza for Southeast Asia, raised when sky-high oil prices made the search for alternative fuels a priority, have been shelved as global fortunes and crude prices nose-dive. Back when movie stars won plaudits for driving hybrid cars, and grains and oils were going cheap, regional governments grew excited over producing biofuel to lower energy costs and soak up agricultura ... more Top Scientists Question Proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009The New Fuels Alliance (NFA) is warning that California's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from gasoline may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions and worsen the state's dependence on dirty fossil fuels. Biofuels are being wrongly penalized by the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) which requires oil companies to reduce the carbon sold in their ... more India lifts Chinese toy ban, demands safety guarantees
New Delhi (AFP) March 2, 2009India's government lifted a ban Monday on imports of Chinese toys that had stoked trade tensions between the world's two biggest emerging economies. But it imposed strict demands for product safety guarantees. India announced the six-month ban in January, prompting Beijing to warn that "bilateral trade relations could be seriously impacted". The Indian trade ministry, which had made ... more German high-tech sector holds up: trade group
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2009Germany's high-tech industry expects to buck the economic crisis this year with sales stagnating but not sinking, its chief lobby group said on Monday on the eve of the giant CeBIT trade fair. Turnover in information technology, telecommunications and digital consumer electronics will hold steady at about 145 billion euros (183 billion dollars), the BITKOM industry organisation said in the ... more |
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