DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dfc435/coming_back_geoth) has announced the addition of GlobalData’s new report “Coming Back: Geothermal Makes Headway in the US” to their offering.
Summary
The US geothermal market is getting heated up, driven by an extension of tax credits by the Obama administration. Started in 1904 in Italy and commercialized since 40 years, geothermals, unlike [...]

Premier Power Renewable Energy Inc. has acquired Campobasso, Italy-based Arco Energy, a private solar project developer and distributor with more than 20 megawatts of permitted projects worth about $114 million in potential revenue, Premier Power announced Wednesday.
The El Dorado Hills company (OTCBB: PPRW) did not disclose terms of the acquisition. The deal was based on [...]

MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters) - Russia will seek global alliances to build a dominant position on the nuclear market as the world economic crisis dents the appeal of renewable energy, senior Russian officials said on Tuesday.
Russia, one of the world’s biggest nuclear players, this year signed deals to cooperate with Japan’s Toshiba (6502.T) and [...]

ROME (Dow Jones)–Energy ministers from the world’s eight richest nations Monday said they would increasingly emphasize nuclear energy and the creation of a common low-carbon technology platform as solutions to climate change and supply insecurity.
The statement comes as a number of countries, including the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, are turning their attention to once-unpopular [...]

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 [...]

By Rania El Gamal and Silvia Aloisi
ROME, May 24 (Reuters) - Energy leaders on Sunday debated what oil price would spur investment in the sector without hurting a wider global economic recovery, as top producer Saudi Arabia forecast prices eventually moving towards $75 a barrel.
The Group of Eight energy ministers are meeting in Rome [...]

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 [...]

Ukraine and Russia said the supply of natural gas to Europe was completely shut off Wednesday, but each side blamed the other for the cut-off, which comes as Europe faces a wave of freezing temperatures.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian state-run gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy, told CNN that Russian gas giant Gazprom had turned off all [...]

By Nicholas Comfort
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — Natural-gas suppliers in Germany, Europe’s biggest energy market, expect to maintain deliveries of the heating fuel even as stockpiles fall to a seven-month low and Russia threatens to halt shipments to Ukraine.
Utilities E.ON AG and RWE AG and gas provider Wingas GmbH said customers won’t experience any disruption in [...]

By Pete Harrison
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is on the verge of a deal to boost renewable energy after resolving a battle over the controversial issue of biofuels on Thursday, but Italy’s demand for a review in 2014 prevented a final agreement.
“We have agreement on everything except the deletion of the review clause,” the [...]