Russia: Warnings of cheap gas threat to electricity

Russia could face a breakdown in its electricity sector unless domestic gas prices are raised, according to a senior bureaucrat. Anatoli Chubais, chief executive of the state-owned electricity monopoly UES, said: “We are facing a worsening gas deficit. The reason for the domestic shortage is clear — gas is too cheap domestically. The Government should […]

Nigeria to build nuclear power plants to meet energy needs by 2015

Nigeria plans to build nuclear power plants to meet a major part of the West African country’s electricity demand by 2015, a government minister said Wednesday. A meeting of the Cabinet chaired by President Olusegun Obasanjo set a target for the country to generate 40,000 megawatts of electricity within the next decade, with a significant […]

India: Nuke power to be predominant form of energy

Nuclear energy will be the predominant form of energy in the next five decades and account for up to 35% of total power generated in the country by 2050, according to a projection by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). “Nuclear energy will constitute about 30 to 35% of total electricity produced in the country, which […]

The quest for clean energy: China’s green revolution

Meanwhile in the capital, Beijing, plans are well advanced to use renewable energy for a big chunk of the city’s power needs by the time it hosts what China is billing as the first “green” Olympics in 2008. Beijing intends to build a “solar street” where buildings and streetlights will run entirely on energy from […]

Corn finds future in energy

Supply and demand is still the top market mover for grains. But there are some brand new factors traders that are now pencilling into this equation. Take corn. India’s acreage and production is certainly important. But smart Indian traders are now also keeping track of global ethanol demand, especially in the US. The even smarter […]

Rice as a source of electricity

Rice yields an abundance of biowaste: Husks make up around one quarter of the weight. Only a small fraction of this is utilized, for instance, to fire distillery furnaces. Researchers at Hanoi University of Technology now also want to use rice husks to generate electricity. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation […]

Fuel Cell Projects Database

At least 337 stationary fuel cell projects have been built throughout the United States, according to a new database created by Fuel Cells 2000 and DOE’s Hydrogen Program. Fuel Cells 2000 is a non-profit educational organization formed to promote the development and early commercialization of fuel cells and related technologies. The organization’s new database also […]

Russia Says Will Sue Shell in International Court for Sakhalin-2 Environmental D

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As Fuel Prices Soar, A Country Unravels

Energy shock hits the upwardly mobile poor hardest in Africa’s Guinea. Riots, blackouts cripple cities. A hospital’s incubator shuts down. Conakry, Guinea – Every couple of days, nurses at the Donka Hospital here scoop up the premature babies from their incubators. They rouse their mothers from sleep, lay the infants on the women’s bellies and […]

Mexico’s Pemex chief: Cantarell oil field output to drop 14 percent a year

MEXICO CITY: The chief executive of Mexico state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Wednesday the company expects production at its Cantarell oil field to decline by an average of 14 percent a year between 2007 and 2015. Speaking to members of the Senate Energy Committee, Luis Ramirez Corzo said the average annual decline […]

Nuclear and renewables on the menu at EU ministerial

Ministers will debate the long-term targets for renewable energies as well as the contribution of nuclear power to climate-change mitigation and supply security at a dinner devoted to the EU’s energy mix.The debate will feed into a strategic energy review that the Commission is preparing for 10 January. The review will assess the contribution of […]

Deserts offer cheap source of energy

Sahara sunshine could provide Europe with clean and cheap energy, according to a study for the German government. Experts said solar energy from north Africa could help to reduce emissions from European power stations by 70 per cent by 2050 as well as providing energy at a cost equivalent to a $20 barrel of oil […]

Putin issues veiled warning to east Europe

President Vladimir Putin of Russia issues a veiled warning today to Poland and other east European states that they risk “creating fresh division lines in Europe” by treating Moscow as an enemy instead of a long-term strategic partner. Mr Putin, writing in the Financial Times, suggests that some in Europe try to fit European Union-Russia […]

A Tale of Four Predictions

In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a well known geoscientist, predicted that US Lower-48 oil production would peak and start an irreversible decline between 1966 and 1971. Lower 48 production peaked in 1970, 14 years after Hubbert In a column published in Forbes Magazine in November, 2004, Daniel Yergin, an historian and chairman and co-founder of […]

Fighting KWs on the Balkans

Bulgaria Hungarian and Slovenian MEPs have already suggested that the European Commission

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia plans to expand its gas exploration programme to add 50 trillion cubic feet of non-associated gas reserves by 2016 but will have to compile adequate data before considering a new concession round. The kingdom, the world khaleejtimes

Kunstler on the CERA report

by James Howard Kunstler Last week, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) released a report saying that there was no imminent global oil problem and that enough new oil would come on-line to permit current levels of consumption — and beyond! — for more than a hundred years into the future. CERA’s stunningly disingenuous report flies […]

Oil Prices Expected to Fall Below $45

…In an interview with Forbes magazine, Michael C. Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Amherst, Massachusetts, said prices would regress. Lynch, known for his optimistic analysis in energy issues, asserted that new supplies would amply meet growing demand. He did not expect price hikes even if an economic embargo was imposed on […]

Energy output short of demand

Mexico, the No. 2 U.S. supplier of oil, is unable to produce enough to meet the demands of its customers, especially its neighbor to the north, because of outdated national economic policies that have hamstrung its oil and gas exploration and production, analysts say. Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon met with Canadian officials this month to […]

Inch by inch, car by car

Fast Company senior writer Charles Fishman wrote a very good book about Wal-Mart and, more recently, a feature about Wal-Mart’s plans to push compact fluorescent lightbulbs that caught the imagination of the entire enviroblogosphere. Now he has a new story, on how Toyota unflaggingly works to constantly improve its manufacturing processes, that is likely to […]

Urban railway, not highway, is Lehigh Valley’s future

…The Route 22 Coalition plan is geared to current conditions, not future ones. It assumes a continuation of current trends, an assumption that must be called into question. No one has a crystal ball, but change is a certainty. Today, the stage is set for radical changes in the ways we inhabit and move around […]

Gasoline prices see abnormal rise

As travelers prepare to hit the road for Thanksgiving, the trip is getting more expensive: Gasoline prices increased during the last week in most of the country, led by California and the other West Coast states, a federal report showed Monday. Refinery maintenance and tight supplies drove the uncharacteristic mid-November surge as the price of […]

Nigeria: Gunman seize seven from Italian vessel

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Gunmen have seized seven hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, police and company officials said Wednesday. Twenty-five foreign workers and nearly 60 Nigerian employees were aboard a vessel belonging to a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni SpA that was attacked overnight, Eni said […]

Global warming — it’s personal

The truth is, we can change ourselves with breathtaking speed, sculpting even “immutable” human nature. Forty years ago, many believed human nature mandated that blacks and whites live in segregation; 30 years ago human nature divided men and women into separate economies; 20 years ago human nature prevented us from defusing a global nuclear standoff. […]

A nuclear power primer

Renewable energy from photovoltaics, biomass and wind will solve the world opendemocracy

Stover to fill part of ethanol goal

Estimates of 5 billion gallons of fuel per year from stalks and cobs fall well short of 60 billion gallons by 2030. The biotechnology industry estimates that 5 billion gallons of fuel ethanol could be produced annually from corn stalks, leaves and cobs left after the grain is harvested and also could help to combat […]

Africa: Carbon Credit Trade Already Worth $5 Billion

Developing nations could earn as much as $100 billion annually by 2050 from selling carbon credits, according to an analysis released by the World Bank at the United Nations conference on climate change that ended in Nairobi last week. The carbon credit trade, the conference heard, has made about $5 billion over the past two […]

BuildingGreen Names Top Ten Green Building Products for 2006

BuildingGreen, Inc., a publisher of green building news and directories, has named its 2006 Top-Ten Green Building Products, most of which have some relation to energy efficiency and renewable energy. The most obvious one is renewable energy credits (RECs) from Community Energy, Inc., which BuildingGreen recognized as one of the leading North American providers of […]

More cities reject coal-fired power

In an abrupt about-face, Burbank and several other Southern California cities are joining with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in abandoning plans to renew long-term contracts for coal-fired electricity from a Utah power plant. In forsaking their largest power source, the cities will be gambling on the availability of adequate alternative energy […]

New BIO Report On Sustainable Agriculture To Support Growing Biofuel Industry

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today released a report, “Achieving Sustainable Production of Agricultural Biomass for Biorefinery Feedstock,” that addresses the question “Can American farmers feed the growing biofuel industry?” The report details the potential of cellulosic biomass as an energy resource and the promise of no-till cropping for greater residue collection. It also proposes […]

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