Hays KS (SPX) Sep 05, 2008 - Mid-Kansas Electric Company (Mid-Kansas) and Sunflower Electric Power Corporation (Sunflower) have reached an agreement with ITC Great Plains (ITC Great Plains) designating ITC Great Plains to build two of the three sections that will comprise the proposed Kansas V-Plan transmission project.
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Sep 05, 2008 - Rising fuel prices, environmental improvements and planning for additional carbon-free nuclear power to meet future growth will increase the cost of electricity next year, Progress Energy Florida has announced.
Luanda (AFP) Sept 4, 2008 - Long ignored by foreign investors except China, oil-rich Angola is riding on growing foreign interest, prompting the government to play the competition card and distance itself from Beijing.
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 4, 2008 - A decision by Indonesian palm oil companies to reject a moratorium on land clearing is threatening to wipe out more than 8,000 orangutans in the next three years, activists said Thursday.
Sausalito CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2008 - AltaRock Energy has announced it had finalized agreements with Weyerhaeuser and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation allowing it to explore the potential for developing geothermal projects in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Briarcliff Manor NY (SPX) Sep 04, 2008 - American DG Energy has announced that Club Fit, a premier health and fitness facility, located in Briarcliff Manor, New York, saved thousands of dollars on it's energy bills and lowered its CO2 emissions with an On-Site Utility in the first year of operation.
New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 04, 2008 - Entergy's transmission system has sustained extremely severe damage from Hurricane Gustav, damage that could make power restoration a difficult and slow process, especially in southeastern Louisiana.
Monaco (RIA Novosti) Sep 04, 2008 - Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, plans to apply for permission to ship crude oil to China via Kazakhstan in the fourth quarter of this year and in 2009, the company CEO said on Monday.
Portland OR (SPX) Sep 04, 2008 - Iberdrola Renewables has announced that construction is underway on a 50 megawatt (MW) wind farm, the Buffalo Ridge Wind Power Project near White, South Dakota. The project, expected to be complete in 2009 contingent upon passage of the Production Tax Credit, will export enough energy for approximately 15,000 homes each year.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 3, 2008 - US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he would release oil from the US strategic reserve upon requests from companies in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.
Taipei (AFP) Sept 3, 2008 - Taiwan called Wednesday for expansion in cooperation on oil exploration and development with China amid warming ties between the two rivals.
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 - The implications of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia continue to reverberate far beyond the two countries. The confrontation exposed the vulnerability of Western export routes of Azeri Caspian oil across Georgia into Turkey via the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The million-barrel-per-day BTC pipeline, the world's second-longest, began operations in May 2006 and provided a fiscal bonanza not only to exporter Azerbaijan, but to Georgia and Turkey as well, which were able to collect lucrative transit fees.
Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 03, 2008 - On Saturday, August 23, the 2008 Hydrogen Road Tour arrived at the SunLine Transit Terminal in Thousand Palms, California to fuel a caravan of hydrogen vehicles on the final leg of a cross country journey stretching from Portland, Maine to Los Angeles, California.
Leawood KS (SPX) Sep 03, 2008 - Empire Energy has announced that, having just completed the drilling of an oil and gas well at Sealake, Victoria, the Hunt Energy Rig Number 3 has arrived at the Melbourne docks and is being washed down prior to quarantine inspection.
Newark, NJ (SPX) Sep 03, 2008 - PSEG Global and energy storage pioneer Dr. Michael Nakhamkin has announced they have formed Energy Storage and Power; a joint venture to exclusively market, license, support the development and supervise project execution of the second generation of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008 - Southern Primorye Territory is to host a guarded nature reserve for 30 Amur leopards (P. pardus orientalis), the world's rarest big cats. To this end, the route of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline will be altered, costing its builders another $3 billion. But there is one more facility jeopardizing the leopard project - a gas pipeline, which is planned to be laid across the nature reserve.
