Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2009 - China cut average energy consumption by 2.9 percent on year in the first quarter, as a major stimulus package helped save energy while maintaining economic growth, the government said Wednesday.
Golden, Colo., April 29, 2009 - Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says his department will provide $93 million to support development of wind energy in the United States.
Paris (AFP) April 29, 2009 - Meeting a widely-supported goal to tackle global warming means that humanity will be able to burn less than a quarter of the proven reserves of fossil fuels by 2050, a study released on Wednesday said.
Washington, April 28, 2009 - The dramatic downturn in energy prices has heavily impacted oil-producing nations, few more than Kazakhstan, which had a marginal oil industry prior to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. Having attracted more than $40 billion in foreign investment since then, Astana is now caught between a fiscal rock and a hard place as foreign investors seek to retrieve their funds. In its search for foreign capital to cover its balance-of-payments problems, Kazakhstan, like many nations, is turning to a nation flush with an astounding $2 trillion in foreign reserves, besides running a massive trade surplus -- China.
Beijing (AFP) April 28, 2009 - China on Tuesday hit out at Vietnam for naming an official to run the disputed Paracel islands as it reasserted its claim to the potentially resource-rich chain in the South China Sea.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 - White Energy has completed construction of the first one million tonne per annum (MTPA) clean coal upgrading modular plant at Bayan's Tabang mine in East Kalimantan. The plant utilizes WEC's exclusively licensed Binderless Coal Briquetting (BCB) clean coal upgrading technology.
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 - Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 - Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have discovered a potential chink in the armor of fibers that make the cell walls of certain inedible plant materials so tough. The insight ultimately could lead to a cost-effective and energy-efficient strategy for turning biomass into alternative fuels.
Manila (AFP) April 28, 2009 - The Philippines plans to reduce its energy dependence on coal over the next five years to lessen carbon emissions which contribute to climate change, an energy official said Tuesday.
Washington, April 27, 2009 - During the past year, at a time of record-high energy prices, many European officials have decried what they see as Russia's state-owned Gazprom natural gas company being used as a tool to promote the Kremlin's policies by indulging in hardball pipeline politics. Gazprom's favored tool is variable prices being used to send political signals to recalcitrant former Soviet republics such as Ukraine and Georgia, with the pressure ramping up in direct proportion to a government's inclination to look westward.
Arlington, VA (SPX) Apr 27, 2009 - The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute, the furnace industry's trade association, has announced its commitment to continue working with the U.S. Department of Energy as it reconsiders residential furnace efficiency standards.
Miami FL (SPX) Apr 27, 2009 - Mayor Manny Diaz has announced a groundbreaking energy initiative that proposes to use federal economic stimulus funds to help spur a $200 million investment in Smart Grid technology and renewable energy over the next two years.
Kansas City MO (SPX) Apr 27, 2009 - Just five months after announcing the creation of a state-of-the-art Center for Integrated Algal Research, Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has installed and activated two technically distinct bioreactor technologies to accelerate the Institute's pursuits in algae research.
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 27, 2009 - Dynamotive Energy Systems has announced that it has successfully produced significant amounts of renewable gasoline and diesel from biomass at its research facility in Waterloo Ontario through a novel two stage upgrading process of BioOil.
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2009 - US Senators have crafted legislation aimed at choking off Iran's gasoline imports to break its defiance of global demands to freeze its suspect nuclear program, their offices said Monday.
Sanaa (AFP) April 27, 2009 - Yemeni forces have freed an oil tanker seized off Yemen's coast and arrested 11 pirates on board, the defence ministry said on Monday.
