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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Sanford, Florida Chooses MaxWest Environmental Systems To Turn Sludge Into Renewable Energy

Sanford FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 - Sanford, Florida will be the first municipality in North America to adopt the MaxWest gasification system as an efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to dispose of biosolids. MaxWest Environmental Systems of Houston Texas has developed the gasification system, which converts sludge from the municipal wastewater treatment system into renewable, green energy.

Mar 27, 2008

Union Pacific Highlights Deliveries Of Ethanol And Hybrid Autos

Omaha NE (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 - Union Pacific expects to transport an increased number of hybrid vehicles and ethanol as consumers take a closer look at fuel efficient vehicles in the face of increasing gasoline prices. Union Pacific Railroad is the largest automotive carrier west of the Mississippi River, said Julie Krehbiel, vice president and general manager - Autos at Union Pacific.

Mar 27, 2008

AEP SWEPCO Receives Louisiana Commission Approval To Build 600-MW Coal-Fueled Plant

Shreveport LA (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) has approved a request by Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), a unit of American Electric Power, to construct a 600-megawatt coal-fueled power plant in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas. The five-member Commission unanimously approved the request for certification on March 19.

Mar 26, 2008

Analysis: Oil tax upped in Venezuela

Miami (UPI) Mar 26, 2008 - Venezuela is set to impose a new tax on oil profits on petroleum earnings caused by soaring global oil prices, a move seen by some as an effort to replenish diminished state coffers.

Mar 26, 2008

Analysis: Strike worries roil Nigeria oil

- Strike talks continue in Nigeria as a potential labor walkout threatens to cripple a petroleum sector that has already experienced its share of setbacks due to ongoing militant violence.

Mar 26, 2008

Demand For Electricity In Tanzania Fuelled By Industrial Growth

Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - Rising demand from both local and export power markets is necessitating urgent additions to Tanzania's installed electricity capacity. The country is looking to the rehabilitation of the power industry and the exploration of both gas and coal for power generation to reduce the supply-demand gap.

Mar 26, 2008

Findings Could Improve Fuel Cell Efficiency

Durham NC (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - A new type of membrane based on tiny iron particles appears to address one of the major limitations exhibited by current power-generating fuel cell technology. While there are many types of fuel cells, in general they generate electricity as the result of chemical reactions between an external fuel -- most commonly hydrogen -- and an agent that reacts with it.

Mar 26, 2008

New Natural Gas Pipeline From Wyoming To The US Canadian Border

Calgary, Canada (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - The Alliance Pipeline and Questar Overthrust Pipeline Company (Questar) have announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the Rockies Alliance Pipeline (RAP), a jointly owned interstate natural gas pipeline from Wamsutter, Wyo., to the Minnesota U.S./Canadian border (Emerson trading hub).

Mar 26, 2008

Spanish Ministers Applaud Ocean Power Technologies Project

Pennington NJ (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - Ocean Power Technologies is pleased to announce that it hosted a Ministerial visit by leading Spanish government officials to its facility in Santander, Spain. The purpose of the visit was to highlight the final assembly and testing of the PowerBuoy, which is to be installed about 5 miles off the coast of Santander in the Cantabrian region of northern Spain.

Mar 26, 2008

Startech Environmental Announces Plans For Its Carbonless Power System

Wilton CT (SPX) Mar 26, 2008 - Startech Environmental has announced its plans to produce and market its Carbonless Power System for Green Electricity in stationary facilities. Startech Hydrogen, derived from processing waste in the Startech Plasma Converter, will be used as a pristine fuel to power the hydrogen-engine-generators from the Hydrogen Engine Center.

Mar 26, 2008

Air Products’ Hydrogen Technology Fuels South Carolina Demonstration Project

Lehigh Valley PA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - Air Products mobile hydrogen fueling technology has been placed into service for a hydrogen fuel demonstration project in Aiken County, South Carolina. The fueler is providing hydrogen for a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine pick-up truck which is being used as a development, demonstration and educational tool in coordination with a program involving the Aiken County Economic Development Partnership.

Mar 25, 2008

Expanded POET Biorefining – Chancellor Begins Production

Sioux Falls SD (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - POET Biorefining - Chancellor started producing ethanol last week at its expanded capacity of 100 million gallons per year (MGPY). It took the plant fewer than 24 hours to achieve its new nameplate capacity. The $100 million construction project started 12 months ago and doubled the plant's production capacity. With the expansion completed, the annual production capacity of POET's 22 ethanol plants is 1.25 billion gallons per year.

Mar 25, 2008

Johnson Controls Discovers Future Green Leaders By Igniting Creative Energy

Milwaukee WI (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - Johnson Controls announces the three national winners of the 2008 Igniting Creative Energy Challenge (ICE) -- an educational competition that encourages students to develop ingenious ways to live a more sustainable life and protect the environment. Out of thousands of entries, Tessa Hartley of Missouri, Matthew Belz of Ohio and Wesley Fulkerson of California are named this year's national winners.

Mar 25, 2008

Nearly One Dollar in Every Four Goes To Buy Energy

Alexandria VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - It is not just the poorest households who are struggling to pay their energy bills or who are affected by government energy policies, says Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC). A new study reveals individuals and families making less than $50,000 per year will pay 22 percent of their after-tax income for energy, double the burden of just a decade ago.

Mar 25, 2008

Octillion Announces Streamlining Of Key Process In Development Of Nanopower Window Technology

Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - Octillion has announced efforts to streamline the deposition of silicon nanoparticles on to glass, an important process in development of the Company's NanoPower Window technology, a novel transparent window capable of generating electricity.

Mar 25, 2008

SES And YIMA Establish Project Office At Planned Coal Gasification To Chemicals Plant Site

Houston TX (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - Synthesis Energy Systems and YIMA Coal Industry Group have announced the establishment of the joint project office responsible for developing their planned integrated coal gasification to transportation fuels and chemical intermediates plant (the Plant) in Henan Province, China. SES and YIMA have jointly funded the project office and have assigned a team of experienced managers to oversee the project's development.

Mar 25, 2008