University Park PA (SPX) Jan 09, 2013 - Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States. But when one of the thousand lead-acid batteries that power it dies, the locomotive shuts
Lexington MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2013 - TIAX has been chosen by Argonne National Laboratory as an affiliate member company of the energy storage Hub to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), which combines the R
Charlotte NC (SPX) Jan 09, 2013 - Three new power plants officially began serving North Carolina customers at the end of 2012, representing a combined investment of nearly $3.65 billion and marking another significant milestone in D
Oakville, Canada (SPX) Jan 08, 2013 - Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. has acquired a 109.5 MW contracted wind powered generating station (Shady Oaks) from Goldwind International SO Limited (Goldwind) for total consideration to a
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - A chemical could turn the flow battery into an inexpensive way to store energy collected from intermittent sources of electricity, U.S. researchers said.
Bowling Green KY (SPX) Jan 08, 2013 - Today, Encore Energy provided the following report for recent lease activity, available properties for lease and services available to mineral owners and operators in the Utica Shale of Eastern Ohio
Davis, Calif. (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - Engineered bacteria could make fuel from sunlight as a step toward replacing fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical industry, U.S. researchers say.
Singapore (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - Exxon Mobil has inaugurated a petrochemical processing facility in Singapore on the island of Jurong.
Lafayette, LA (SPX) Jan 08, 2013 - Green Field Energy Services (GFES), in conjunction with Apache Corporation, performed the first-ever operation of a Frac Pump utilizing field gas as its sole fuel source. The GFES Turbine Frac
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - Libya's battered oil industry crisis appears to be escalating again, with armed separatist militants who have shut down vital facilities in the east since July now seeking to sell oil from rebel-controlled terminals, while the navy drove off with shellfire a Maltese-flagged tanker that tried to illegally load at one of the blockaded ports.
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2013 - Researchers have proposed a method for cooling trapped antihydrogen which they believe could provide 'a major experimental advantage' and help to map the mysterious properties of antimatter that hav
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2013 - Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vaporized again; in desalination plants, it yields a
Plymouth, England (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Environmentalists in Britain's West Country say a government proposal to compensate local communities for new onshore wind farms won't quell protests.
New Delhi (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Indian Oil Minister Veerappa Moily called for the country to achieve energy independence by 2030, a goal he said is very much possible.
Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - North Carolina State University scientists report developing a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique that may reduce biofuel production costs.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 7, 2013 - Iran's oil exports have been slashed 40 percent in the past nine months because of tough Western sanctions, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Monday, in a reversal of his previous denials of any decline at all.
