Gas crisis prompts Italians to reconsider nuclear energy

“Our energetic setup is too fragile, too dependent on gas and petrol. Italy’s energy supplies are not secure,” Pippo Ranci, the former head of Italy’s energy authority, warned in an interview with daily Corriere della Sera. The latest energy crises have prompted the government to reconsider its stance on nuclear power. Industry Minister Claudio Scajola […]

Energy policy: We’re still in the dark

The Celtic Tiger’s roar may have moderated to a growl, but Ireland’s demand for energy shows no sign of abating. A report by the National Grid recently raised the spectre of power cuts unless a new power plant was commissioned by 2009.This is in addition to the three new independent plants at Tynagh, Aughinish and […]

G-8 Ministers Warn of Wider Risks From Tight Oil Supply

Finance ministers from the world’s richest countries and Russia said Saturday that “high and volatile” energy prices posed a risk to global economic growth that otherwise appeared solid. With booming growth in China and India absorbing oil, attention has been focused on the effect of rising demand in pushing up oil prices. The Group of […]

Could we generate our own power?

Embrace micro-generation (small-scale, home-based, renewable-energy technology that powers your house) and you’ll get decades’ worth of clean, green power, freedom from the tyrannies of a global energy supply chain, and be granted immunity from the high electricity bills expected in the near future (remember, the era of cheap power is over). Turning your home into […]

The hypocrisy of the nuclear powers

There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send the matter of Iranian nuclearization to the United Nations Security Council in order to force Iran to cancel its nuclear program and create a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. The resolution includes, for […]

Statoil Upgrades Reserves at Kvitebjorn

Recoverable reserves in the Statoil-operated Kvitebjorn field in the North Sea have been upgraded by 50 percent in relation to the estimation in the plan for development and operation (PDO). In terms of volume, this represents 29 billion cubic meters of natural gas and roughly 70 million barrels of condensate. rigzone

A New Chapter Begins for Concentrated Solar Power

This weekend, in the Desert outside Las Vegas, a major milestone was reached for renewable energy that could represent a shift in how the fastest growing region in the U.S. get its energy. Hundreds of people from around the world were on hand in Boulder City, Nevada, to commemorate the groundbreaking for the beginning of […]

Warming to his subject

Malcolm Wicks says he likes a challenge. This is fortunate, because the Energy Minister faces interconnected problems that seem at best baffling and at worst irreconcilable. First, is the question of gas supplies through an infrastructure bottleneck this winter – and the impact on prices. Next come concerns over the future security of UK energy […]

We ignore crude politics at our peril

President Bush aims to reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil; rumours emerge that British Gas is about to raise the price of domestic gas and electricity sharply; BP plans to return $65bn ( telegraph

Forest Waste Could Provide 50% of Maine

The Fractionation Development Center (FDC), a Maine non-profit group, has released a plan detailing how the state could turn its vast quantities of forest waste into a range of biofuels and chemicals, providing up to 50% of the state greencarcongress

BP and Edison Plan Major Hydrogen Power Project for California

BP and Edison Mission Group (EMG), a subsidiary of Edison International, announced that they are planning a new $1-billion hydrogen-fueled power plant in California that would generate electricity with minimal carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The first-of-its-kind plant would be located alongside BP greencarcongress

House passes measure awarding millions for green research

The state would award $25 million a year in grants and low-cost loans for research and development of new and renewable energy and biofuel sources theolympian

Ag department warns farmers of likely drop in income

WASHINGTON (AP) – Farmers will see their incomes plunge in 2006 coming off two years of unusually high prices and record crops, the Department of Agriculture said yesterday. Rising energy costs and interest rates are gobbling up the bottom line for farmers, analysts said. That

Russia Urges More Gas Links, May Ease Pipeline Access

Russia, the world’s largest natural- gas supplier, may reduce OAO Gazprom’s deadlock on the country’s pipelines and is seeking more gas links to Europe, which was hit over the past month by fuel shortages amid a dispute between state-run Gazprom and Ukraine. Russia plans to ensure equal access for producers to the nation’s gas network, […]

Farmers look at fuel alternatives

Potential crops are explored MILLBROOK, NY To replace oil, farmers envision crops being used to fuel vehicles, generate electricity and be processed into industrial chemicals. About 50 people, mostly Hudson Valley farmers, showed enthusiasm for the idea at a meeting Friday, even if most won’t consider planting switchgrass, willow or any other “biofuel” crop just […]

Petrobras and Bolivia Plan Joint-Venture Gas, Fuel Partnerships

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, and Bolivia plan to create joint- ventures to increase Bolivia’s control of its energy assets while securing Brazilian supplies of natural gas. Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras, the Bolivian Hydrocarbon Ministry and Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Boliviano, Bolivia’s state oil company expect to sign an agreement this month, Petrobras said […]

Brazil leading U.S. in renewable fuels race

As President George W. Bush was advocating the nation seek greater energy independence using renewable resources, a small delegation of Midwesterners returned from Brazil where Bush Today, Brazil

Eni Expects 16.2 Pct. Gas Supply Shortfall

ROME (AP) – Italian oil and gas company Eni SpA said it expected natural gas supplies from Russia to be 16.2 percent below requested volumes for a 24-hour period starting Saturday morning. The figure was the same as the one reported over the previous two days. Eni has reported frequent shortages of its gas supply […]

House passes measure on biofuel, ethanol

OLYMPIA, Wash. By that same date, gasoline must be blended with a minimum blend of 2 percent ethanol. Ethanol standards could jump to 10 percent if air quality won’t be affected. Biodiesel is a vegetable oil-based fuel that can be burned in place of regular diesel or mixed in varying blends; ethanol can be distilled […]

Fuelling concerns

UK fruit and vegetable producers are counting the costs of higher energy bills. Rising energy costs are already a concern this year and with higher prices expected for the foreseeable future, many UK producers are preparing to square up to this challenge. Insiders are reporting fuel hikes of anywhere between 60-80 per cent, with energy-intensive […]

Push is on for LNG to boost supplies

HOUSTON – Since hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed the Gulf Coast nearly five months ago, the region has lost more than 610 billion cubic feet of natural gas production. That’s about 3 percent of the nation’s annual production and enough to power homes in eight Southern states, including Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi for one year, […]

Nigeria’s oil hope and despair

The west African state of Nigeria is the continent’s biggest oil exporter. But despite its huge energy reserves and potential wealth, millions of people live in extreme poverty. Each Nigerian state has its own number plate slogan. Lagos, the pulsating home to 15 million-odd people, traffic jams and frequent armed robberies, is the Centre of […]

AZAL Cancels Its Flights Over High Fuel Prices

AZERBAIJAN – A number of flights from Baku have been canceled in the wake of the recent price hike on fuel. The senior body regulating prices, the Tariff Council, on January 5 doubled the retail prices on diesel, kerosene and fuel oil. Shortly after the recently announced cancellation of the Baku-Kabul flight, the Azerbaijani Airlines […]

Asteroid Mining: Key to the Space Economy

The Near Earth Asteroids offer both threat and promise. They present the threat of planetary impact with regional or global disaster. And they also offer the promise of resources to support humanity’s long-term prosperity on Earth, and our movement into space and the solar system. …Spectroscopic studies suggest, and As one startling pointer to the […]

Bolivia edges close to energy takeover

Bolivian President Evo Morales is moving his country closer to nationalizing South America’s second-largest natural gas reserves and reviving a state-owned petroleum company that now amounts to little more than a collection of bureaucrats and decrepit gas stations… “Some multinationals already have conspiracies,” Morales said Monday in one of his harshest speeches since taking office […]

Energy prices ‘threaten growth’

Finance ministers from the world’s leading industrialised countries have warned volatile energy prices threaten “solid” world economic growth in 2006. But officials from the Group of Eight [G8] nations said they still believed that growth would be good this year, in a statement issued after talks. Finance chiefs have been meeting in Moscow this weekend […]

Country Has Massive Gas Resources – Energy Minister

Botswana had massive gas resources, Minerals and Energy Minister Charles Tibone revealed during yesterday’s ministerial panel discussions at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town. The former permanent secretary in Botswana’s Minerals and Energy Ministry, who became an entrepreneur before his election to the Botswana Parliament in 2004, said initial indications were that the country had […]

Beijing struggles to clean air by 2008

With just two years left before the 2008 Summer Olympics, China’s capital is struggling to live up to its pledge of hosting a “green games” while also meeting the demands of its increasingly affluent residents and their consumerist ways…But Beijing’s goal of becoming a pollution-free city is being undermined by rapid economic growth that is […]

Worldwide Nuclear Energy Output Sets Record

The world’s nuclear generators in 2005 appear to have matched their record 2004 output, according to a recent study. The study calculated the nuclear total at 2.75-billion gross megawatt-hours (MWh). In 2004, the total was approximately 2.742-billion. The largest increase was recorded in South Korea, where addition of a new 1,000-MW unit helped the national […]

Govt told to take action on renewable energy

With the world’s second-longest coastline, archipelagic Indonesia is prone to disasters triggered by rapid global warming, meaning the country has to do its bit to find clean energy sources, environmentalists say. Senior officials at the Office of the State Minister for the Environment said the country needed to urgently establish its own sources of renewable […]

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