Madrid (UPI) Aug 15, 2011 - Spanish construction and renewable energy giant ACS Group says it has sold a chunk of its wind energy business to a private equity firm for $850 million.
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Aug 15, 2011 - A U.S. market research company says the military fuel cell market is expected to grow to a $1.2 billion industry segment by 2017.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2011 - Ten people were killed by an explosion in a coal mine in southwest China, a local official said Monday, in the latest in a series of fatal accidents to plague the industry.
Beijing (UPI) Aug 15, 2011 - China's dependence on imported oil grew to 55.2 percent in the first five months of this year up from 55 percent last year, reports state-run news agency Xinhua, citing figures from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Singapore (AFP) Aug 15, 2011 - Oil prices were higher in Asian trade Monday, lifted by buoyancy in regional stock markets, but analysts said the spectre of another global recession was expected to limit gains.
Kuwait City (AFP) Aug 14, 2011 - Kuwait has beefed up security around a controversial port project ahead of a visit by an Iraqi delegation for talks, a security official was quoted as saying Sunday.
Vienna (AFP) Aug 12, 2011 - Germany is thinking of getting electricity from Austria, fearing it will run low on power this winter due to plans to shut down eight nuclear plants, the Austrian daily Kurier reported Friday.
Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2011 - The oil and natural gas industry called a U.S. Department of Energy panel's recommendations for regulation of hydraulic fracturing disappointing and confusing.
Accra (AFP) Aug 12, 2011 - Ghana will borrow $800 million from China to build natural gas infrastructure, the head of the national gas company said Friday, months after the country became Africa's newest major oil producer.
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Aug 12, 2011 - Having pioneered the development of the first high-performance iron-based catalyst for fuel cells, researchers at INRS recently achieved a second major advance. They developed a new and improv
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2011 - Peak petroleum-the point at which the maximum rate of global oil extraction is reached, after which the rate of production begins to decline-is a hot topic in scientific and energy circles. Wh
Villahermosa, Mexico (UPI) Aug 12, 2011 - Protests are rising in Mexico's southeastern state of Tabasco against pollution allegedly caused by the activities of local sugar mills and Petroleos Mexicanos.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Aug 12, 2011 - Oil titan Royal Dutch Shell faces a bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for two big 2008 oil spills in Nigeria's main oil-producing zone, a region devastated by 6,800 recorded spills over the last half century.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2011 - We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access to an electrical outlet. But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli Scho
Beijing (AFP) Aug 11, 2011 - China has called on the US energy giant behind a massive oil spill to speed up its clear-up efforts and issue a public apology after it missed a deadline to clean the sea bed, state media said Thursday.
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 11, 2011 - Algae-based fuel is one of many options among the array of possible future energy sources. New University of Virginia research shows that while algae-based transportation fuels produce high energy o
