Boston MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2009 - NSTAR and the United States Department of Energy are teaming up once again with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to sponsor the MIT Clean Energy Prize - a national student competition to accelerate the pace of clean energy entrepreneurship.
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 10, 2009 - Securing long-term energy supplies for the giant Chinese economic machine dominated the agenda on Tuesday as China's President Hu Jintao made his second visit to oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia.
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2009 - Wind energy companies remained among market leaders last year by posting strong gains in 2008 in spite of a major down turn in market growth.
London (UPI) Feb 9, 2009 - The British government is spending $90 million to build four carbon-neutral towns in England.
Seoul (AFP) Feb 9, 2009 - A South Korean court Monday accepted a request to limit the total compensation payable by the owner of a Hong Kong supertanker, which has been partly blamed for causing the country's worst oil spill.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Feb 9, 2009 - Venezuela plans to impose a partial state of emergency to deal with electricity shortages resulting from the worst drought in more than 100 years, President Hugo Chavez announced.
Mumbai (AFP) Feb 8, 2009 - In India, where the car is king, the only cyclists tend to be delivery men, heaving the pedals of ancient, rusting, single-gear machines laden with milk churns or tied-up bales of newspapers.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 8, 2009 - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will order his ministries to draft a Green New Deal this week to counter the twin threats of climate change and the economic downturn, a report said Sunday.
Long Beach, California (AFP) Feb 7, 2009 - Giants of technology, science and the arts ended a brain-sparking gathering on Saturday with hope that collaborations and clever solutions will trump the world's alarming woes.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 06, 2009 - Whole Foods is doing it. So are PepsiCo, REI, New York University and ING Financial Services.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 06, 2009 - As Congress and the new administration try to tackle climate change and dependence on foreign oil, more than a half-million Americans are weaning their homes from fossil fuels, opting to buy clean, homegrown electricity. The particulars of green pricing programs vary from company to company, but the basic premise is that the utility builds a facility to generate renewable energy -- like windmills, a solar farm or a geothermal plant -- or buys it from an independently owned renewable energy project. The utility then sells that electricity to consumers who are willing to pay to promote the development of green energy. Higher prices for green energy constitute the norm across the country, but it's not always clear whether the extra money paid by green pricing program participants is going to promote clean electricity. A few utilities have been accused of swindling their green power customers by charging them extra money for clean energy but failing to deliver it.
New York NY (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - In light of rising interest in developing domestic renewable energy resources, such as wind, that are cleaner and are not subject to the fuel price shocks, demand for wind turbine systems and components is expected to increase 6.8 percent per year to $10.1 billion in 2012.
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - Morphic has been granted a patent on a method and system for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide using wind turbines, and then combining the CO2 with water and excess electricity to produce liquid biofuels.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - The Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) from cities and counties in the Southeast to compete for up to $500,000 to create and implement a community energy alliance. The program design is largely based on efforts underway in Cambridge, Mass., Cincinnati, Ohio, New York, N.Y. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - Rentech has announced that greenhouse gas emissions from its planned synthetic fuels facility near Natchez, Mississippi are expected to be lower than those from conventional crude refineries. This is based on the results of a third-party life-cycle assessment of the carbon footprint of fuels to be produced at the proposed Natchez plant.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2009 - Back in 2006 when Texas overtook California to lead the nation in wind power few would have predicted the break-neck pace of development that would follow. Today, just three years later, wind turbines generating 8005-megawatts, more than all the turbines spinning in California, Iowa and Minnesota, have outstripped the capacity of the high-voltage grid to move the power from windy west Texas to major cities where it's needed.
