Madrid (AFP) Oct 22, 2008 - Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa Wednesday said net profits soared during the first nine months of the year but its share price plunged as it announced a temporary production halt at two factories.
Wallingford CT (SPX) Oct 22, 2008 - The U.S. Army's Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has announced that it has awarded Proton Energy Systems a $2.62 million contract to develop a Regenerative Fuel Cell System for Silent Camp Operation.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 22, 2008 - Siemens Energy and Automation and the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that will improve the processes used to convert second generation, non-food-based, biofuel feedstocks, including perennial grasses, animal wastes and agricultural residues such as corn stover, into liquid bio-fuel intermediates, such as bio-oil.
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 22, 2008 - TXU Energy has launched a new online tool that enables homeowners to simulate how a variety of home energy improvements could impact their home energy efficiency and the impact on their energy bill.
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Oct 22, 2008 - The 1930s semi is an icon of its age. Three million were built and they are still a major part of our current housing stock. Now a three year research project is about to start at The University of Nottingham that will help people living in these properties meet the Government's ambitions to reduce CO2 emissions from homes.
Exton PA (SPX) Oct 22, 2008 - WPCS International has announced that, through its Max Engineering subsidiary, it has completed a renewable wind energy project that encompasses the construction and installation of a wind turbine for Sherrard Community Unit School District located in Rock Island County, Illinois.
Sydney (AFP) Oct 22, 2008 - The global economic crisis and the damage it could do to development will dominate talks between officials from some of the world's biggest cities Thursday.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2008 - U.S. oil companies will need clarity from the next president and Congress quickly as to whether the recent lapse of the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling that opened more of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to exploration is something other than a temporary aberration, American Petroleum Institute President Red Cavaney has said.
Vienna (AFP) Oct 21, 2008 - An Austrian motorcycle manufacturer said Tuesday that it hopes to start mass production of an electric-powered all-terrain endurance bike within two years.
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2008 - BP America has announced an oil discovery at its Freedom Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 948, approximately 70 miles southeast of the Louisiana Coast, is in about 6,100 feet (1,860 meters) of water.
Wessington Springs SD (SPX) Oct 21, 2008 - Babcock and Brown and Heartland Consumers Power District have announced that South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds dedicated the Wessington Springs Wind farm, located just south of Wessington Springs, South Dakota.
Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 21, 2008 - Progress Energy Carolinas and GreenCo Solutions have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue new alternative energy projects designed to turn swine waste into electricity. The two companies will work together to identify and support swine waste-to-energy projects in Eastern North Carolina to serve the utility's customers and those of the state's electric cooperatives.
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 20, 2008 - Sudanese and Chinese authorities were seeking on Monday to contact the kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers snatched near Sudan's disputed oil district of Abyei.
Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2008 - The U.S. Office of Fossil Energy has announced the first successful generation of electricity using geothermal technology from a producing oil well.
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 19, 2008 - Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped near Sudan's disputed central oil district of Abyei, the Chinese embassy said on Sunday, with a Sudanese driver also feared missing.
London, UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2008 - A radical new design in wind turbines - the AeroCam from BroadStar Wind Systems - will make its European debut here at one of the largest renewable energy conferences ever held in the U.K.
