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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Energy Tech

Question marks on Venezuela

Washington (UPI) Jul 8, 2011 - Speculation abounds in Venezuela over the health and future President Hugo Chavez and his socialist revolution.

Jul 8, 2011

Energy Tech

Researchers push the boundary with high carbon emission scenarios

London, UK (SPX) Jul 08, 2011 - US and Swiss researchers have, for the first time, modelled a climate system with extremely high carbon emissions in an attempt to test the boundaries of the current computer simulation programs tha

Jul 8, 2011

Bio Fuel

Termites digestive system could act as biofuel refinery

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 08, 2011 - One of the peskiest household pests, while disastrous to homes, could prove to be a boon for cars, according to a Purdue University study. Mike Scharf, the O. Wayne Rollins/Orkin Chair in Mole

Jul 8, 2011

Bio Fuel

‘Trash gas’ powers garbage trucks

Los Angeles (UPI) Jul 8, 2011 - A growing number of trash trucks are being powered by fuel recovered from the very garbage they haul to landfills, U.S. industry experts said.

Jul 8, 2011

Energy News

Australia slashes businesses subject to carbon tax

Sydney (AFP) July 7, 2011 - Australia has halved the number of companies needing to pay a contentious pollution tax from 1,000 to about 500, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday, stressing only big business will be hit.

Jul 7, 2011

Energy Tech

Green energy investment hits new record

Paris (AFP) July 7, 2011 - Investment in renewable energy last year amounted to a record 211 billion dollars, a rise of 32 percent over 2009 and 540 percent over 2004, a UN-backed report said on Thursday.

Jul 7, 2011

Energy Tech

Northern Nigeria’s ‘huge’ oil reserves

Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Jul 7, 2011 - Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and the world's eighth largest producer but is looking for other than its traditional oil-producing areas to increase its holdings.

Jul 7, 2011

Energy Tech

Shale gas’s role in U.S. debated

Washington (UPI) Jul 7, 2011 - A U.S. industry group is touting the benefits of natural gas, including the controversial process known as fracking or hydraulic fracturing.

Jul 7, 2011

Energy Tech

U.K. court ruling a blow to Argentine plan

Buenos Aires (UPI) Jul 7, 2011 - A British Supreme Court ruling that rejected state immunity for Argentina in creditor claims dating to its $96 billion sovereign debt default in 2001 exposed Buenos Aires to new financial risks as the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner fought for an early re-entry into global capital markets.

Jul 7, 2011

Bio Fuel

Virgin eyes eucalyptus for jet fuel

Brisbane, Australia (UPI) Jul 7, 2011 - Fuel derived from eucalyptus trees could be the fuel of the future for the airline sector, says Virgin Group Chief Executive Officer Richard Branson.

Jul 7, 2011

Energy Tech

Anger mounts in China over oil spill

Beijing (AFP) July 6, 2011 - Chinese media and green groups on Wednesday slammed the state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the marine watchdog for keeping an oil spill hidden from the public for nearly a month.

Jul 6, 2011

Energy Tech

Argentine offshore oil quest inconclusive

Buenos Aires (UPI) Jul 6, 2011 - An Argentine initiative to find hydrocarbons in an Atlantic basin halfway to the British-ruled Falkland Islands has been inconclusive but the quest will continue with Brazilian, Chinese and Spanish interests taking part.

Jul 6, 2011

Energy Tech

Chavez parade fails to dispel doubts

Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Jul 6, 2011 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez led a colorful military parade on the Latin American country's independence bicentennial in defiance of opposition critics' predictions of an impending political and security crisis following his admission of cancer after surgery in Cuba.

Jul 6, 2011

Energy News

Euro Bank launches $385M efficiency fund

Brussels (UPI) Jul 6, 2011 - The European Investment Bank says it has launched a $385 million fund targeting energy efficiency project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Jul 6, 2011

Energy Tech

Iran fires anti-ship missiles near key Gulf strait

Tehran (AFP) July 6, 2011 - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday launched several anti-ship missiles near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the country's Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam reported.

Jul 6, 2011

Energy Tech

Natives decry first pipeline to Canada’s Pacific coast

Calgary, Canada (AFP) July 6, 2011 - Aboriginals fearing a spill are threatening to try again to block Canada's first pipeline connecting the rich oil fields of Alberta to the Pacific Coast aiming to reach new markets in Asia.

Jul 6, 2011