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Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

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.

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Wanted: Wearable Power System, Batteries Included

Washington (AFNS) Jul 26, 2007 - The Defense Department is offering $1 million to the person who invents a way for servicemembers to take a load off. During a conference call with Internet bloggers today, William Rees, deputy undersecretary of defense for laboratories and basic sciences, explained the department's wearable power competition announced earlier this month. Currently, an individual servicemember on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan carries roughly 40 pounds of batteries to provide four days' worth of power. The department's goal, he explained, is to lower the load to less than 9 pounds.

Jul 26, 2007
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Carbon Trading Exchange Goes Live In Australia

Sydney (AFP) July 23, 2007 - Australia's first emissions trading exchange went live Monday, setting an initial price for carbon at 8.50 Australian dollars (7.50 US) a tonne, officials said. The new exchange is a joint venture between the Melbourne-based Australia Pacific Exchange (APX), a bourse specialising in small niche companies, and the Australian Climate Exchange (ACX). Trading on the ACX Electronic Emissions Trading Platform started at midday (0200 GMT) and by the end of the day 1,600 tonnes of voluntary emissions reductions had traded hands, closing at a price of 8.60 Australian dollars a tonne.

Jul 23, 2007
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FPL Energy Signs Deal With Citrus Energy For First Of Its Kind Ethanol Plant

Juno Beach FL (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 - FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Citrus Energy, of Boca Raton, FL, to develop the first ever commercial scale citrus peel to ethanol plant. The cellulosic ethanol plant will be owned and operated by FPL Energy and is expected to produce four million gallons of ethanol per year. It will be located on the grounds of a local Florida citrus processor.

Jul 23, 2007
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GE Acquires Major Landfill Gas Project In California

Glendale CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 - GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE, is diversifying its renewable energy portfolio by increasing its investment in one of the largest landfill gas-to-energy projects in the United States. GE Energy Financial Services acquired a 90 percent interest in a limited partnership that operates the Scholl Canyon Landfill gas project in Glendale from Scholl Canyon Landfill Gas Corp., an affiliate of Palmer Capital Corp., which will continue to manage and direct the operations. No financial information about the transaction was disclosed.

Jul 23, 2007
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The Future of Clean Coal And Carbon Sequestration

London - Jul 23, 2007 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'The Future of Clean Coal: The Impact of New Technologies and Legislation on the Economics of Coal-Fired Power Generation' to their offering. Coal accounts for 40% of global electricity supply and the proportion is set to remain steady, even as global generating capacity rises. Coal-fired generating capacity may double by 2030, which would have a severe effect on carbon dioxide emissions unless new, cleaner technologies can be implemented.

Jul 23, 2007
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Rural Communities Revived By New Energy Projects

London UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2007 - A study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, of community renewable energy projects in Britain has found that so far, projects are largely based in the countryside, some quite remote. From wind turbines to shared heating systems, small-scale renewable energy doesn't just help in the fight against climate change. It can also bring people together, revitalise local economies and help alleviate poverty.

Jul 20, 2007
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The Future Of Biofuels Is Not In Corn

London UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2007 - The future of biofuels is not in corn, says a new report released today by Food and Water Watch, the Network for New Energy Choices, and the Vermont Law School Institute for Energy and the Environment. The corn ethanol refinery industry, the beneficiary of new renewable fuel targets in the proposed energy legislation as well as proposed loan guarantee subsidies in the 2007 Farm Bill, will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental and economic consequences.

Jul 20, 2007
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US And Russia Facing Energy Crises

Moscow (UPI) Jul 20, 2007 - New Yorkers still remember the night of terror provoked by a blackout on a hot summer's night in 1977, when stores were ransacked, looted and destroyed, buildings were set ablaze, and the police, for the most part, stood helpless. In the 30 years since then, electricity experts have not found a foolproof way of developing electricity systems that would rule out a repetition of such disasters. The same goes for Russia.

Jul 20, 2007
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EERC Providing Renewable Energy Solutions For Remote Area Of Alaska

Grand Forks ND (SPX) Jul 19, 2007 - The University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) conducted a feasibility study to determine the most economical solutions to provide biomass energy to the entire Chugachmiut Tribal Community in the village of Port Graham, Alaska, located on the Kenai Peninsula about 180 miles southwest of Anchorage. The village is only accessible by air or water, making traditional energy sources expensive to deliver and alternative forms of energy difficult to implement.

Jul 19, 2007
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New Particle Explains Odd Behavior In Cuprate Superconductors

Champaign IL (SPX) Jul 18, 2007 - New fundamental particles aren't found only at Fermilab and at other particle accelerators. They also can be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, scientists at the University of Illinois report. The newly formulated particle is a boson and has a charge of 2e, but does not consist of two electrons, the scientists say. The particle arises from the strong, repulsive interactions between electrons, and provides another piece of the high-temperature superconductivity puzzle.

Jul 18, 2007
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Iran, Pakistan, India Agree Gas Price For Transnational Pipeline

New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007 - Iran, Pakistan and India have agreed on a formula for the price of natural gas to be pumped through a pipeline that will link the three countries, India's Asian Age daily said. The deal has removed the main obstacle to the signing of a three-way agreement on building the 2,300 km Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline with an estimated price tag of $7.5 billion. The first deliveries from gas-rich Iran are expected in 2011.

Jul 17, 2007
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Somali PM Says He Is Not Aware Of Oil Deal With China

London, UK (AFP) Jul 17, 2007 - Somalia's interim prime minister said in an interview published Tuesday that he was not aware of a deal struck between Chinese energy companies and his government allotting them oil exploration rights. Ali Mohamed Gedi's comments were interpreted by the Financial Times as signalling a potential internal power struggle within the Somali government, reporting that it had seen a document signed by Somalia's president granting two officials power of attorney to sign a production-sharing agreemeent with the Chinese state companies.

Jul 17, 2007
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The Coming Conflict In The Arctic

Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 17, 2007 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush spent most of their time at the lobster summit at Kennebunkport, Maine, discussing how to prevent the growing tensions between their two countries from getting out of hand. The media and international affairs experts have been portraying missile defense in Europe and the final status of Kosovo as the two most contentious issues between Russia and the United States, with mutual recriminations over democracy standards providing the background for the much anticipated onset of a new Cold War.

Jul 17, 2007
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ENDESA Starts Up The Poggi Alti Wind Farm In Italy

New York NY (SPX) Jul 16, 2007 - Endesa Italia has started up the Poggi Alti wind farm, the largest in Tuscany, with installed capacity of 20MW. The Poggi Alti wind farm was built at a cost of Euro 25 million with minimal impact on the surrounding landscape respecting the environment. The facility has ten 2MW turbines with a total installed capacity of 20MW. Annual output is expected to be around 40.9GWh, equivalent to energy consumption of 19,000 households.

Jul 16, 2007
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Eco-Architecture Takes Root In Thailand

Bangkok (AFP) July 16, 2007 - Soontorn Boonyatikarn is a man of the times, throwing around terms like eco-design as he enthuses about the charcoal water recycling system at the Bangkok home he designed for his family two years ago. His Bio-Solar House -- designed not only to be energy efficient but to produce energy -- was inspired by the humble mango tree, echoing the ideas of some of the brightest international names working in eco-architecture today.

Jul 16, 2007