Vilnius (AFP) Jan 23, 2012 - The Polish oil company Lotos said Monday it would start prospecting for shale gas in neighbouring Lithuania, which wants to break the current monopoly held by Russian giant Gazprom.
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Jan 23, 2012 - Ukraine says Russian gas utility Gazprom isn't asking it to barter away state assets as part of negotiations to reduce the price it pays for imports.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2012 - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power plans to install about 17 million smart meters in customer households by March 2019 in a bid to increase efficiency, a report said Sunday.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2012 - China on Saturday urged the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to exercise restraint and protect the rights of Chinese enterprises in their territory as the south halted its oil production.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2012 - China expressed deep concern Saturday after the US launched a probe into Chinese wind towers that it suspects of being unduly subsidised and sold at a loss on the American market.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2012 - China's $410-billion sovereign wealth fund said Friday it had bought a stake in British utility company Thames Water, days after Britain's Finance Minister George Osborne held talks in Beijing.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 20, 2012 - Iran is being paid for oil sales to India through a Turkish bank, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company said Friday on Mehr news agency.
College Park MD (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 - Maryland planners, developers and land-use advocates consider the state's smart growth tools too weak, frustrating their desire for development within existing urban areas, finds a new University of
Brasilia, Brazil (AFP) Jan 20, 2012 - With the Rio environment conference only five months away, a just-released summit draft calls for sustainable development goals toward a green economy but critics slam it as too vague.
Washington (UPI) Jan 20, 2012 - An increase in exports of domestic liquefied natural gas could raise gas prices in the United States by as much as 54 percent by 2018, a new government report says.
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 - GlacialLight, a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications a
Richland, WA (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 - For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas
Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 - Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill byproducts, forest residues or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years but were still higher in the 4Q/11 in most reg
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2012 - America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency, while also making the mistake of crowding out economically beneficial investments in energy efficiency by focusing on riskier and
London UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2012 - Researchers from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have discovered a family of genes that could help us breed grasses with impro
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jan 19, 2012 - As Persian Gulf tensions mount over Iranian threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the region's energy producers are scrambling to find alternative export routes but the outlook is grim.
