-(BUSINESS WIRE)–On October 22, 2009, Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) will be hosting a Dedication Ceremony at their 49.5 MW Blue Mountain ‘Faulkner 1’ Geothermal Power Plant.
The invite-only event will begin at approximately 11:00 am at the ‘Faulkner 1’ Power Plant just outside of Winnemucca, NV. There will be approximately 200 attendees including employees, vendors, stakeholders, [...]

Oil prices were essentially flat to end the week after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this week that interest rates will have to be raised when the economy recovers in order to avoid inflation.
It has been the weak dollar that has attracted billions in investments in energy markets this year because oil is priced [...]

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed uranium explorer Aura Energy on Wednesday reported that it had expanded its holdings within the Alum Shale uranium deposit, in Sweden.
The company has now acquired a ‘considerable’ landholding close to the Norwegian border. The company said in a statement that the Alum Shale did not reach the large thickness seen in [...]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) — A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated electricity in China. Using extensive metrological data and incorporating the Chinese government’s energy bidding and financial restrictions for delivering wind power, the researchers estimate that wind alone has the potential to meet the country’s [...]

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP - News) today announced that Plantation Pipe Line Company is the first pipeline company in the United States to transport biodiesel for commercial purposes. Plantation completed the first transmarket commercial shipment of blended 5 percent biodiesel (B5) on a mainline segment of the pipeline. The company injected B99 [...]

Hercules Offshore (HERO) is a provider of shallow-water drilling and lift-boat services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and employs roughly 3,100 employees.
In terms of financial strength, HERO’s EPS took a big hit in 2008, whereby the ($12.1)/share results damaged the stock from its [...]

BANGKOK (Dow Jones)–U.S.-based oil giant Chevron Corp. (CVX) plans to move ahead with investments in South Asia amid an expected strong economic recovery in the overall region.
“Asia will have the quickest recovery to feed future demand growth. We have strategic locations in Asia to support growth in the long term,” Joe Geagea, managing director [...]

Gryphon Gold Corporation (TSX:GGN)(OTCBB:GYPH) is pleased to announce its wholly owned subsidiary, Nevada Eagle Resources (NER), has sold its Blue Mountain project to Nevada Geothermal Power Company (TSX VENTURE:NGP). NER staked this property in November 2008. On April 1, 2009, Nevada Geothermal Power Company paid NER $50,000 for 31 claims subject to future production royalties [...]

Millions of new energy jobs? Perhaps, but the estimates may be a bit too rosy
It’s no wonder that the “green jobs” chant has become a chorus. What’s not to like about the prospect of millions of newly created and hard-to-outsource positions? Particularly if they are filled by people hard at work designing and building and [...]

Stimulus stirs great interest in industry, training programs.
WASHINGTON — Asa Foss spends his days fielding calls from construction workers who have been bulldozed along with Maryland’s homebuilding market, and now want to join the state’s unlikely boom industry: making houses more energy-efficient.
The callers tell Foss that they’re desperate for work, and that the classes he [...]