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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.

Coskata And ICM To Design And Build Commercial Ethanol Plants

Warrenville IL (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - Coskata announced a strategic alliance with ICM to design and construct a commercial ethanol plant using Coskata's biological fermentation technology. ICM is North America's leading ethanol plant design, engineering and support firm. Its patented proprietary process technology is responsible for approximately 50 percent of North American ethanol production from plants constructed by Fagen, Inc. and ICM.

Feb 7, 2008

Duke Energy’s Advanced Clean Coal-Fueled Power Plants Approved

Alexandria VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) released a statement supporting the permitting of two Duke Energy coal-fueled power plants, the Cliffside Steam Station in North Carolina and the Edwardsport Station in Indiana. Both plants will incorporate advanced technologies to help reduce air emissions while providing critical electricity generation for both regions.

Feb 7, 2008

Fairchild Semiconductor Selects Pune, India For Research And Development Center

San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a design center in Pune, India. This research and design (R and D) center will be responsible for designing and developing the company's new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications such as solar inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), automotive, lighting and ballast applications.

Feb 7, 2008

How Green Are Green Business Pastures

Springfield MA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - The State of Green Business 2008 report unveils the GreenBiz Index to establish benchmarks for measuring the progress of green business. You know a trend has hit its stride when it starts being quantified. Such is the case for green business as of 2007. For example, Fortune named Ten Green Giants in April and Fast Company listed 50 Ways to Green Your Business in November.

Feb 7, 2008

Offshore Alaska Lease Sale Vital To Meeting America’s Energy Needs

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - At the lease sale in Anchorage, energy companies submitted a record number of bids - 667 altogether - for the right to search for oil and natural gas beneath the waters off the northern coast of Alaska. All told, these companies were prepared to spend $3.4 billion for the chance to look for domestic sources of energy.

Feb 7, 2008

Wager Challenges CERA Oil Supply Prediction

Houston TX (SPX) Feb 07, 2008 - A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a prominent oil forecasting think tank. Members of the challenger group also renewed an invitation to hold a public debate on the issue of peak oil with CERA.

Feb 7, 2008

Analysis: Pemex renews ExxonMobil deal

Miami (UPI) Feb 6, 2008 - Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex has decided to renew its non-commercial agreement with ExxonMobil for research and development projects.

Feb 6, 2008

Analyzing The US Energy Industry 2008 Report

Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Feb 06, 2008 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of Analyzing the Energy Industry in United States to their offering. The global energy industry has explored many options to meet the growing energy needs of industrialized economies wherein production demands are to be met with supply of power from varied energy resources worldwide.

Feb 6, 2008

EU industry shelving investments over emissions plans: association

Brussels (AFP) Feb 6, 2008 - A growing number of European industrial groups are scrapping investments because of EU plans to make them pay for the right to emit greenhouse gases, an energy industry association said Wednesday.

Feb 6, 2008

Geotimes Explores For Oil Around The World

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008 - With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month's cover story Oil Around the World. Land disputes, foreign sanctions, terrorism, war and economics play into the exploration and recovery of the world's oil and natural gas reserves.

Feb 6, 2008

Analysis: Europe’s pipeline war

Berlin (UPI) Feb 5, 2008 - The European Union and Russia are battling over the future of a pipeline aimed at diversifying Europe's energy imports.

Feb 5, 2008

Bio-Crude Turns Cheap Waste Into Valuable Fuel

Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - CSIRO and Monash University have developed a chemical process that turns green waste into a stable bio-crude oil. The bio-crude oil can be used to produce high value chemicals and biofuels, including both petrol and diesel replacement fuels. By making changes to the chemical process, we've been able to create a concentrated bio-crude which is much more stable than that achieved elsewhere in the world, says Dr Steven Loffler of CSIRO Forest Biosciences.

Feb 5, 2008

Business Making Limited Progress On Green Issues Says Green Business Report

Oakland CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - Despite an apparent flurry of activity by corporations to improve their environmental performance, U.S. companies aren't yet making much of a difference in addressing major environmental problems, according to a new report. State of Green Business 2008, a free report published by GreenBiz.com, reports that companies are making good progress on fewer than half of the 20 measures of performance it investigated.

Feb 5, 2008

E Coli A Future Source Of Energy

College Station TX (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - For most people, the name E. coli is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A and M University's chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping to power our cars, homes and more.

Feb 5, 2008

Intel Becomes Largest Purchaser Of Green Power In The US

Santa Clara CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - Intel reports that it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment, making Intel the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Feb 5, 2008

International Effort Takes Critical Steps To Accelerate Growth Of Global Biofuels Market

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 05, 2008 - The governments of the United States, Brazil and the European Union (EU)-the world's major producers of biofuels-have jointly released an analysis of current biofuel specifications with the goal of facilitating expanded trade of these renewable energy sources.

Feb 5, 2008