Houston TX (SPX) Sep 11, 2013 - Physicists at the University of Houston's physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant and
Tokyo (UPI) Sep 10, 2013 - Japan and India said they were planning a liquefied natural gas importers' group as a way to reduce the Asian price and diversify their import sources.
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Sep 10, 2013 - A significant portion of the petroleum consumed by the transport sector must be replaced in the long term by renewable energy. Therefore, it is of the utmost economic and ecological importance to op
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 10, 2013 - In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water - one of the keys to the much-discussed hydrogen economy - scientists are reporting that powder fro
Corvallis OR (SPX) Sep 09, 2013 - Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2013 - On 17 July, Nicaragua announced that US-based Noble Energy would invest $30 million in drilling two offshore wells in the Caribbean-launching Nicaragua's first-ever oil exploration. The wells will b
Golden CO (SPX) Sep 09, 2013 - A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without fe
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2013 - It's time to step out from my 'normal' role as the 'energy expert' and make a comment or two on the markets in general, just as a professional trader who's seen quite a bit in his almost 3 decades o
London (UPI) Sep 9, 2013 - Shale gas extraction in Britain would have a similar carbon footprint to other fossil fuels, a government report says.
Galway, Ireland (SPX) Sep 09, 2013 - A team of researchers in Ireland have found evidence that altering the chemistry of an electrode surface (surface engineering) can help microbial communities to connect to the electrode to produce m
Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Sep 6, 2013 - There are growing concerns that a groundbreaking oil exploration contract between the Western-backed transitional government of war-torn Somalia and a British-registered company could further destabilize the East African country.
Berlin (UPI) Sep 5, 2013 - After an intense political struggle, Berlin's Senate this week urged Berliners to vote against a referendum measure that would municipalize the city's electric power grid.
Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan (UPI) Sep 4, 2013 - China and Turkmenistan have agreed to promote bilateral energy cooperation.
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Sep 4, 2013 - Lawless Libya, these days seen as a major haven for al-Qaida, is facing its greatest crisis since Moammar Gadhafi was toppled and killed in October 2011, as armed groups besiege oil fields and terminals, cutting production to a trickle and threatening economic meltdown.
Harstad, Norway (UPI) Aug 30, 2013 - A controversial new power line in northern Norway proposed by grid operator Statnett gained Oslo's approval this week after a compromise with local residents.
Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Aug 30, 2013 - Severe energy shortages have left Pakistan's private power companies with about 50 percent less electricity generation capability than normal demand, leading to blackouts.
