Cardiff, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2009 - Covanta Energy plans to build an approximately $575 million plant to convert waste to energy in the heart of the former Welsh coalmining district. The plant will supply electricity for up to 180,000 homes in Wales, create 600 jobs, and reduce the need for municipal, commercial and industrial waste landfill sites.
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2009 - The European Union's envoy to Washington told skeptical US lawmakers Wednesday that China will not escape making firm commitments at global climate change talks set for December.
Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 - A developing Argentine-British row over the Falklands prospecting for oil and gas offshore may be part of a diplomatic strategy by Buenos Aires to rattle investors who are pouring millions into the project, analysts said.
Jakarta (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 - Indonesia, the world's third-largest coal exporter, plans to gradually cease its coal exports to save for its future needs, says a government official.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 - A 10-week-old leadership crisis that has paralyzed government lies behind a threat by southern rebels to not only resume their war against Africa's largest oil industry but expand it with an all-out onslaught in which nothing will be spared.
Bellevue WA (SPX) Feb 04, 2009 - Puget Sound Energy has taken ownership of two formerly leased 74-megawatt, natural gas-fired electric generators at the utility's Whitehorn Generating Station in Whatcom County, Wash.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2009 - Urban Mapping has announced the availability of a Free Mass Transit Proximity API that permits access to the company's comprehensive database of mass transit systems. The free version offers API access for developers to build location-based applications that can leverage Urban Mapping's URBANWARE Mass Transit database.
Schenectady NY (SPX) Feb 04, 2009 - GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop the next generation steam turbine for use in gas turbine combined-cycle power plants.
St. Paul MN (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - 3M has announced the formation of its new Renewable Energy Division. This organization will enable 3M to maximize the company's technologies, products and responsiveness to the fast-changing renewable energy industry.
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Over the next two decades, APS customers could receive significantly more of their electricity from clean energy sources under a comprehensive Resource Plan filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
New Castle PA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Axion Power International has announced that the potential energy efficiencies and cost savings its advanced lead-acid battery will bring to the rapidly-expanding electric car market has earned the Company an award from the Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant program.
Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over 0.50 euro cents a litre, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right way, states the research published in this month's issue of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining.
New York NY (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Taking up valuable land and growing edible crops for biofuels poses a dilemma: Is it ethical to produce inefficient renewable energies at the expense of an already malnourished population? David Pimentel and his colleagues from Cornell University in New York highlight the problems linked to converting a variety of crops into biofuels.
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 03, 2009 - Continental Airlines is demonstrating the use of sustainable biofuel to power a commercial aircraft for the first time ever in North America.
Global Energy Systems has signed an agreement with Charlotte County, Florida for the development of a landfill gas sequestration and energy facility at the Charlotte County Zemel Road landfill.
Baghdad (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 - Iraq looks set to play a key role in the Nabucco pipeline project that will carry natural gas 2,000 miles from the Caspian Sea basin through Turkey to Austria to feed energy-hungry Europe and break Russia's stranglehold.
