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Solar power eyed as substitute to oil

Kuwait is considering the use of solar energy as an alternative to oil to produce energy, Saad Al-Showeib, the Managing Director of KPC said yesterday. more...
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Senators back Alpine Energy lease

The Senate Committee on Appropriations and Budget on Tuesday approved a lease agreement between the government and Alpine Energy Group for land on which Alpine plans to build a waste-to-energy plant near the Bovoni landfill. more...
Filed under: International

Constellation Energy Releases Statement Regarding the Company's Proposed Nuclear Joint Venture with EDF

Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today released the following statement regarding Friday's decision by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve with conditions the proposed nuclear joint venture between Constellation Energy and EDF. more...
Filed under: Mergers, Aquisitions & Divestitures

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PPL Completes Sale of Hydroelectric Assets in Maine

PPL Corporation announced Monday (11/2) that its PPL Maine subsidiary has completed the sale of the majority of PPL Maine's hydroelectric generation business to Black Bear Hydro Partners, LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, for approximately $81 million. more...
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Entergy Unit and Acadia Power Partners Reach Agreement for Purchase of Acadia Unit 2

Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) announced that its subsidiary, Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL), has signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) to acquire Unit 2 of the Acadia Energy Center, a 580-megawatt generating unit located near Eunice, Louisiana, from Acadia Power Partners, LLC (APP), an independent power producer. more...
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AREVA T&D acquires power transformer manufacturer Megatran Electric Ltd. and secures supply agreement with Hydro-Quebec

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and the shareholders of Megatran Electric Ltd today announced that they have signed an agreement for AREVA T&D to acquire Megatran, the Canadian-based power transformer manufacturer. more...
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POWER Engineers Acquires GIS Asset Management Firm

POWER Engineers has acquired VELOCITIE Integration, a leading GIS services firm experienced in a wide range of platform-independent solutions. more...
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BP continues to to focus wind business in the US, divests Indian wind assets

As BP continues to focus its wind business on its major development portfolio in the US, it today announced the sale of its wind power interests in India. more...
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Booz Allen Hamilton Awarded Department of Energy National Laboratory Prime Contract For Planning and Analysis Support

Booz Allen Hamilton today announced it has been awarded a prime contract from the U.S. more...
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GE Energy Expands in Growing Offshore Wind Sector with Key Technology Buy

GE announced today the completion of the acquisition of ScanWind. more...
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IAEA Revises Nuclear Power Projections Upward

The IAEA has released the latest update of its annual projections for the future of nuclear power, and both its low and high projections for 2030 are higher than they were last year. more...
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Elster Group Acquires EnergyICT NV - One of the Top Three Global Market Leaders

Elster Group, a technology and innovation driven world leader in smart metering and SmartGrid systems and solutions, is pleased to announce the acquisition of EnergyICT NV from its management. more...
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Babcock Power Acquires Assets of Welding Technologies

Babcock Power Inc. ("BPI") announced today that its subsidiary, Babcock Power Services Inc. ("Babcock Power Services"), has acquired all assets of Welding Technologies Inc. located in Gainesville, Georgia. Welding Technologies will be a division of Babcock Power Services, one of the four business segments within the BPI group of companies. more...
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Black & Veatch Launches New Service to Support Corporate Transformation Initiatives for Utilities

Black & Veatch today announced a new, proprietary service offering that will help energy and water utilities quickly align their organizations with the rapidly changing business climate. more...
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Itron CEO LeRoy Nosbaum Added as EnergyBiz Leadership Forum Keynote Speaker

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that its chief executive officer and chairman of the board, LeRoy Nosbaum, will join a host of prestigious industry luminaries as keynote speaker at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum, March 8-10, 2009 in Washington, D.C. more...
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Black & Veatch CEO Urges Infrastructure Investments That Deliver Greater Job Growth and Productivity

Len C. Rodman, Chairman, President and CEO of Black & Veatch, said today that stimulus funding in energy, transportation and water infrastructure will provide the greatest returns in achieving U.S. economic recovery, job growth, greater efficiency and productivity. more...
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Black & Veatch Sponsoring Energy Industry Leadership Briefing on Effects of Global Financial Issues

Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, announced today that it is sponsoring an "Implications of the Financial Crisis for the Energy Industry" executive briefing on Wednesday, January 14 in Houston, Texas. more...
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Advanced Meter Data Management

Nov 9, 2009 - Nov 10, 2009 - London United Kingdom

With Smart meter Projects being proposed and approved across the globe there has never been a more suitable time for SMi to hold their inaugural conference Advanced Meter Data Management. more...

Filed under: International

3rd Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit

Nov 11, 2009 - Nov 12, 2009 - Sevilla SPAIN

The 3rd Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit Europe will take place in Sevilla (Spain) on November 11th and 12th with over 450 attendees. With the event, we have organized two site visits which will take place on Nov 10th and more...

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3rd Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit

Nov 11, 2009 - Nov 12, 2009 - Sevilla SPAIN

The 3rd Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit Europe will take place in Sevilla (Spain) on November 11th and 12th with over 450 attendees. With the event, we have organized two site visits which will take place on Nov 10th and more...

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2nd European Solar Investment and Finance Summit

Dec 2, 2009 - Dec 3, 2009 - Berlin Germany

Successfully Attract and Secure Investment and Finance for Your Solar Projects more...

Filed under: International

2nd European Solar Investment and Finance Summit

Dec 2, 2009 - Dec 3, 2009 - Berlin Germany

Successfully Attract and Secure Investment and Finance for Your Solar Projects more...

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ARTICLES

A Post Woodstock Perspective on Cap and Trade

By Roger Feldman -
It is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the Moon Mission, the Miracle Mets, and the Joe Namath Jets. Everything was possible in 1969. It was more...
Filed under: Carbon Trading

Carbon Credit: A Passport to Pollute Our Planet

By Ramanathan Menon -
Most of us favor protecting the environment. We want green grass to grow, clean water to drink, and blue skies to gaze. We want our more...
Filed under: Carbon Trading

Offsetting the Invisible Hand

By Roger Feldman -
The proposed creation and treatment of GHG Offsets represents a microcosm of some of the more problematic issues presented by the overall cap and trade more...
Filed under: Carbon Trading

The Smart Grid: Is It Worth It?

By Dilip James - Recently I saw an advertisement about the smart grid where a man poses the question: "Did you know that more than 30% of the electricity more...
Filed under: Clean Power Investing

Stovepiped

By Roger Feldman -
This is the moment when the public sector proponents of renewable clean energy must prove their mettle. The organizations, both in and out of government, more...
Filed under: Clean Power Investing
 
 

ENERGY BLOGS

How to order your project finance models for power plants - get 50% discount via PayPal

Blogger Photo By Marcial Ocampo - How to order your state-of-the-art project finance models for power plants - get 50% discount via PayPay this November 2009 more...

Show-Me the Way

Blogger Photo By Bill Opalka - I first met Tom Carnahan last spring on a renewable energy tour that made a stopover in his native Missouri. more...

Lots of work to do on smart grid; it’s expensive and some things haven’t yet been invented.

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - The “smart grid” or “Intelligent Utility”, which is receiving a tremendous amount of press and promotion from the federal government more...

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

A father's letter to his children - encouraging to dream and succeed in life

Blogger Photo By Marcial Ocampo - A father's letter to his children - encouraging to dream and succeed in life Dear Mark, Eric, Patrick, Francis & more...

Cyclics or Paradigm Shift?

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There he was the cerebral, owlish power guy from Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Larry Makovich. Power demand is off but more...
 

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