Oslo (AFP) Jan 17, 2009 - The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other environmental organisations on Saturday launched a campaign to ban oil exploration in the Lofoten Islands, a picturesque archipelago in Norway's Arctic.
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2009 - While the global recession has blindsided the world's oil market, harming the revenue stream of many major producers, Kazakhstan is seeking to overcome the fiscal setback and is looking to the future to diversify its energy exports. A key ingredient in Astana's efforts is its burgeoning uranium production, and it has focused its attention squarely on a rising Asian economic powerhouse -- India.
Honeywell has announced receipt of an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) from the Department of Energy.
Windsor CO (SPX) Jan 16, 2009 - Ice Energy, a leading provider of smart grid and distributed energy storage solutions for leveling peak energy demand, has announced plans to expand its solutions offerings to focus on large scale utility deployment.
Frankfurt (AFP) Jan 16, 2009 - Around 1.8 million Germans, or 4.5 percent of the workforce, work for companies that produce goods and services linked to the environment, a study published by the environment ministry said on Friday.
New York NY (SPX) Jan 16, 2009 - Terra-Gen Power, LLC, a wholly-owned affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners (ArcLight), has announced that, through an affiliated project company, it has acquired a portfolio of six wind projects from Airstream Energy, LLC (Airstream). The projects, which are located in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico are in various stages of development and, when fully constructed, are expected to generate and sell approximately 2500MW of wind energy.
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 16, 2009 - Xcel Energy will seek to acquire approximately 2,200 megawatts of electric generation supply for its Colorado customers between now and 2015, through an all-source request for proposal (RFP) issued by the company. The RFP is part of the most recent 2007 Colorado Resource Plan (CRP) approved by state regulators in December.
Washington (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 - The ongoing Ukrainian-Gazprom dispute is an appropriate moment for Eurocrats in Brussels to question the wisdom of the range of policies toward the entire post-Soviet space since communism imploded in 1991.
Berlin (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 - Britain's multibillion-dollar offshore wind adventure is great news for two German companies: Siemens and Repower are the only companies producing turbines for farms at sea, but several others are poised to enter this lucrative emerging market.
Manila (AFP) Jan 15, 2009 - A Chinese-led consortium on Thursday officially took over a 25-year concession of the Philippines' national electricity grid, government's privatisation arm said.
Edmonton, Alberta (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 - Canada's oil sands should not be singled out as the source of Canada's poor record on greenhouse gas emissions, says a Conference Board of Canada report.
Luanda, Angola (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 - The recent killing of two members of Togo's national soccer squad in Angola during an African tournament by separatist rebels from oil-rich Cabinda province marked an escalation in their long-simmering war over the West African state's energy wealth.
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 - Nigerian forces said they have killed the head of one of the country's notorious gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta, part of an ongoing battle between gunmen and Nigerian forces in the region.
Sydney (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 - PTTEP Australasia, the company behind an August oil spill considered one of Australia's worst environmental disasters, has plugged and secured the leaking well at its offshore Montara rig.
London (AFP) Jan 14, 2009 - A group of British adventurers set off from London to Timbuktu in a flying car Wednesday -- but the project immediately hit turbulence, as they have not received permission to take to the skies here.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 14, 2009 - A consortium that includes China's main power transmitter and distributor will take over the operation of the Philippine electricity grid from Thursday, an executive at the Chinese company said.
