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 Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Sep 21, 2009 
Brazil is considering stopping capital investment into foreign oil projects and concentrating instead on developing its own huge offshore sub-salt deposits, officials said. Questions about how Brazil can finance its ambitious five-year hydrocarbon development program have been raised since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Petrobras officials put a figure on it -- $174.4 billion ... read more 
New York (AFP) Sept 21, 2009The IMF's decision to unload more than 400 tonnes of gold is unlikely to have a major impact on the market at a time when prices of the metal are at a near-record high, analysts said Monday. The International Monetary Fund announced Friday that its executive board had endorsed the sale of 403.3 tonnes of gold, worth about 13 billion dollars at current prices, to boost its lending capacity to ... more
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Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2009The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require Internet providers, including wireless carriers, to treat all Web traffic equally. "There are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet," FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. ... more  
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009The United States can become more energy efficient and create more "green" jobs by adopting some of the strategies used by the European Union and Australia to rate and disclose the performance of commercial and government-owned buildings, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study finds that wealthier countries use more than a third of their energy to heat, cool and illuminate ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2009French utility EDF plans to sell another 20 percent stake in Britain's nuclear power operator British Energy as part of a five-billion-euro (7.35-billion-dollar) asset sale, a report said on Monday. The economic news daily La Tribune said the sale would also help meet EU conditions set in 2008 when Brussels cleared EDF's acquisition of British Energy. Such a sale would also mean that EDF ... more |
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Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Sep 22, 2009The two major energy companies Total and GDF SUEZ and their common solar cells manufacturing subsidiary Photovoltech join the IMEC industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells. The multi-partner R and D program concentrates on sharply reducing the silicon use, whilst at the same time increasing the efficiency of solar cells. This will ... more 
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2009Suntech Power Holdings has announced the introduction of a 60 cell multi-crystalline PV module to be marketed under the product name Wd. The new Wd module series features positive peak power tolerance of 0/+5 watts, which will assure that all Wd modules will produce at, or outperform, the nominal power rating. "The new 60 cell module, which weighs about 20kg, will be ideal for customers ... more 
Lowell MA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009Konarka Technologies has unveiled a line of solar panels for use in a variety of portable charging applications that will be available worldwide in the fourth quarter of this year. Commercial products incorporating Konarka Power Plastic 20 Series material, which include battery chargers for lighting, mobile phones and devices, carry bags and cafe umbrellas, will be available through the ... more |
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