WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making information publicly available from electric utilities on the management of coal combustion residuals contained in surface impoundments and similar management units. Following the coal ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority facility in Kingston, Tenn., EPA requested the information from electric utilities to inform an assessment [...]
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), one of America’s largest electric utilities, will explore a variety of renewable and other clean-energy technologies with China Huaneng Group, China’s biggest electric utility, as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed today in Beijing.
The MOU between Duke Energy and China Huaneng Group - which produces more than 10 percent [...]
Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) today announced the closing of the Samples surface mine located in southern West Virginia. Patriot’s affiliate, Catenary Coal Company, in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (”WARN”), advised employees that their employment at the Samples mine will be terminated effective October 5, 2009. The mine has [...]
American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), through its AEP Ohio unit, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to purchase all the output of a 10.08-megawatt (MW) solar energy facility to be built in Ohio.
Through the 20-year agreement signed with Wyandot Solar LLC, a subsidiary of juwi solar Inc., AEP Ohio will purchase all of the [...]
By Michael Laybourn
If there are no jobs created, there is no money for taxes and this train just might wreck.
Here is my thinking on job creation as it was done in Germany and is now being copied in other EU countries:
Germany is now the leading country for renewable energy production.
It was economic incentives that jump-started [...]
The newest economic stabilization bill includes clean energy tax incentives.
President Bush signed the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424) into law on Oct. 3, 2008, which also extended and enhanced critical tax credits and financing relating to renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, which [...]
Vancouver, BC, October 2, 2008–(T-Net)–QuestAir Technologies Inc. (TSX: QAR; AIM: QAR) and Terasen Gas Inc. have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding whereby the companies will work jointly on the development of potential projects to produce supplies of bio-methane from organic waste. This clean energy source would be injected into Terasen Gas’s existing pipeline [...]
LANSING – Gov. Jennifer Granholm is preparing to leave Monday for a five-day trade mission to Japan, amid concerns that lawmakers haven’t yet finished a deal that would require Michigan’s electric utilities to shift at least 10% of their power to such renewable energy sources as windmills by 2015.
Granholm told reporters a renewable energy standard [...]
