Johannesburg - Government has come up with a draft national solar water heating framework aimed at popularizing the idea of solar water power, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday.
The minister said South Africa, as well as the rest of the continent, had long under-utilized the power of the sun while adding that the global [...]
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 [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s order of over 17,000 fuel-efficient vehicles using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
“We know that we can create jobs and save taxpayer dollars while protecting our planet, and with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we are. The news that General Services [...]
Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ - News) today provided a second update on the status of its Ignacio Gas Processing plant following a ruptured pipeline at the facility on June 3.
The scope of the work was expanded beyond the repair of the damaged pipes to ensure that any similarly situated piping was thoroughly inspected and [...]
French president says he wants to help UAE stabilize world oil prices
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged both oil-rich nations and industrial powers Tuesday to work to stabilize world oil prices, noting that the global economy cannot afford major price swings while it works to recover from the [...]
NEW YORK–ASME, in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA), has issued a proclamation outlining critical national energy priorities and programs for the Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress to consider in the next several years. Twenty-one engineering societies, representing over one million engineers, have endorsed the “National Energy Policy Goals Proclamation” [...]
MICHIGAN is in the grip of a ferocious recession now, but the state’s energy providers are betting that, sooner or later, the economy will improve and the state’s demand for electric power will increase.
Building generating plants takes years, and various utilities have filed permit requests to construct five new coal-fired facilities, with three more requests [...]
Progress Energy has chosen Durham-based Carolina Solar Energy LLC to build a solar power plant on four acres in the Person County Business and Industrial Center near Roxboro.
Carolina Solar Energy will design, construct and operate the 500-kilowat photovoltaic plant. Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Raleigh-based Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), will buy the electricity produced [...]
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama, standing Wednesday in the shell of a once-giant Maytag appliance factory that now houses a wind energy company, declared that a “new era of energy exploration in America” would be a crucial to leading the nation out of an economic crisis.
With pieces of wind turbine towers as a [...]
At a recent congressional hearing, Public Service Commissioner Stan Wise told Congress that Georgia cannot meet a proposed mandate to obtain at least 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Wise went on to say that other states would be able to meet the requirement, which may soon be imposed by new federal [...]
