Sao Paulo (UPI) Aug 24, 2012 - Brazil is going ahead with a smart metering expansion in its electricity power grid despite persistent disparities in the distribution of utilities across the Latin American country's social spectrum.
Perth, Scotland (UPI) Aug 24, 2012 - An impending 9 percent energy price hike from British household energy provider SSE this week brought protests from politicians and consumer groups.
Mumbai (AFP) Aug 24, 2012 - India's Reliance Power announced on Friday it had signed a deal with China Datang Corp to develop and operate power and energy projects in the energy-hungry South Asian nation and abroad.
Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2012 - Oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico braced Friday for Tropical Storm Isaac as the strengthening storm barreled toward Haiti on a northwest track that threatened US offshore operations.
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 24, 2012 - PetroChina, China's biggest oil and natural gas producer, warned economic growth would be slow in the coming months.
Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2012 - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he aims for the United States to become energy independent by 2020.
Vancouver, British Columbia (UPI) Aug 23, 2012 - Canada's Africa Oil Corp. increased its estimated resources for its Kenyan and Ethiopian concessions.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Aug 23, 2012 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, seeking re-election Oct. 7, says he plans to spend $130 billion over six years to double the country's daily crude oil output.
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 23, 2012 - AllCell Technologies has launched two new standard electric bike batteries with exceptional capacity and drive range. The 48 volt batteries come in 15 and 20 amp-hour options, providing the best dri
Singapore (AFP) Aug 23, 2012 - Oil prices surged in Asia on Thursday as hopes of a Chinese stimulus soared after manufacturing activity in the world's largest energy consumer fell to a nine-month low in August, analysts said.
Cambridge, England (UPI) Aug 23, 2012 - British scientists say they have produced hydrogen, a renewable energy source, from water using an inexpensive catalyst under industrially relevant conditions.
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2012 - A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex carbon compounds. Now scientists at MIT
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2012 - In 2020, if all goes according to plan, the state of California will get 33 percent of its electricity from renewable power, including solar and wind, as required by the state's Renewable Portfolio
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 22, 2012 - A boat which carried a group of pro-China activists to disputed islands in the East China Sea last week, leading to their detention by Japan and anti-Tokyo protests, returned to Hong Kong on Wednesday.
Princeton NJ (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 - Researchers at a recent worldwide conference on fusion power have confirmed the surprising accuracy of a new model for predicting the size of a key barrier to fusion that a top scientist at the U.S.
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 - Whether a material conducts electricity without losses is not least a question of the right temperature. In future it may be possible to make a more reliable prediction for high-temperature supercon
