Foreign firms and their subsidiaries will receive about $750 million of the $2.3 billion in tax credits for clean energy manufacturing projects announced recently by the Obama Administration. That represents nearly 33 percent of the total awards, which are intended to spur U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technologies.
A detailed review of the 183 projects receiving [...]
By Institute for Energy Research
The Obama Administration sold its $787 billion stimulus plan on the basis of improving the economy through investing in green energy and by doing so, increasing employment in the United States. But what is actually happening, particularly with wind and solar projects, is that the majority of the manufactured components [...]
LANDAU IN DER PFALZ, Germany — Government officials here are reviewing the safety of a geothermal energy project that scientists say set off an earthquake in mid-August, shaking buildings and frightening many residents of this small city.
The geothermal plant, built by Geox, a German energy company, extracts heat by drilling deep into the earth. Advocates [...]
Dublin, Jun 24, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — FRSU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e3f2c5/central_and_easter) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Central and Eastern European Wind Power Markets” to their offering.
The following study covers the development and dynamics of the wind energy industry [...]
MUNCIE, IN - Delaware County is establishing itself as a dynamic center for green, renewable and alternative energy innovation. VAT-Energies, LLC and VAT-Service, LLC a wholly owned subsidiaries of VAT-Service Getriebetechnik in Germany announced today the company’s plans to locate its North American corporate headquarters, service and manufacturing facilities near Yorktown in Delaware [...]
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada, May 28, 2009 (ENS) - President Barack Obama Wednesday announced over $467 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of geothermal and solar energy across the United States.
The funding is intended to help the solar and geothermal industries overcome technical [...]
TERENGGANU: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) targets to commission the first nuclear power plant in Malaysia by 2025 if the government decides to include nuclear as an acceptable energy option.
Head of nuclear energy unit TNB, Dr Mohd Zamzam Jaafar said TNB cannot ignore nuclear energy amid the uncertain future supply and volatile fossil fuel prices as [...]
HOUSTON, May 22 — Energy prices fell May 21 with the biggest one-day drop in natural gas futures prices since August 2007 as the major US equity stock indexes were hammered and the dollar gained in value.
The front-month crude contract fell from a 6-month high but remained above $61/bbl on the New York Mercantile [...]
The company that runs the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant admitted that it may have to close for a number of years owing to a series of technical problems.
The huge £1.8bn plant at Sellafield imports spent nuclear fuel from around the world and returns it to countries as new reactor fuel. But a series of catastrophic [...]
FRANKFURT, May 12 (Reuters) - Germany’s nuclear power industry lobby is ready to discuss plans to reverse the country’s atomic exit programme with any new government after the Sept. 27 national elections, it said on Tuesday.
The group called the Atomic Forum said power station operators were prepared to make concessions in exchange to gain [...]
