USEC Inc., striving to justify federal loan guarantees for the completion of an Ohio uranium enrichment plant, has a new argument in its favor after a major customer placed a billion-dollar order for fuel from the facility.
The Bethesda, Md.-based enriched uranium supplier said nuclear reactor operator Exelon Generation Co. has placed a nearly $1.2 billion [...]
GeoGlobal Resources Inc. (GeoGlobal or the Company) (AMEX:GGR - News) announces today an update of certain of our exploration activities that will be disclosed today at the 2009 Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Oil & Gas Investment Symposium. This presentation will be broadcast live via webcast today at 1:55 pm Mountain Daylight Time through [...]
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ: ATPG - News) today announced success from an exploratory well at its Wenlock field Block 49/12 North in the U.K. North Sea with the completion and testing of the W3z ‘Bodbury’ prospect from a previously untested fault block. The well was completed in the Leman sandstone at a depth [...]
By Joseph N. DiStefano
‘Electricians, plumbers, roofers - we can put these people back to work,” said Rhone A. Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Resch’s group, based in Washington, is teaming up with IEEE, the electrical-engineering society, to cosponsor this year’s PV America (PV = photovoltaic = solar electric) conference and trade show at [...]
Facility Supports Lockheed Martin’s Work in Utility-scale Renewable Energy
MOORESTOWN, N.J., April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today observed Earth Day with a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of its solar energy testbed. The testbed supports Lockheed Martin’s work in utility-scale renewable power.
The Solar System Test and Engineering Site (SolSTES) array in [...]
ClimateBiz Staff
Non-hydro renewable energy increased 17.6 percent in 2008 compared to the year before, according to new figures released this week by the Energy Information Administration.
In comparison, electricity generation from coal and natural gas declined by 1.1 percent and 2.2 percent, respectively. Overall electricity generation declined 1 percent in 2008, most likely due to the [...]
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 [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc on Tuesday said it would use its software skills to help consumers track their home energy usage and thereby lower demand and the global warming emissions that come from producing electricity.
The move is part of Google’s effort to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’ fourth-quarter income fell 36 percent on the loss of a tax credit and expenses that outpaced revenue growth.
Alliance said Wednesday it earned $25.2 million, or 32 cents per partnership unit, in the quarter. The Tulsa, Okla.-based company earned $39.9 million, or 76 cents per unit, in [...]
Rowan’s EDC exploring the possibilitiesCould Duke Energy’s $50 million plan to put energy-producing solar panels on hundreds of rooftops across North Carolina help generate jobs in Rowan County?
The Duke plan, which was approved last week by the state Utilities Commission, is just one example of the growth in the “green” or alternative energy sector that [...]
