Motion Calls For Rate Cut For San Onofre Closure
California regulators are being asked to immediately remove hundreds of millions of dollars from utility customer bills because the San Onofre nuclear power plant is being shut down permanently.
View ArticleAbu Dhabi's Shuweihat 2 Names Lenders For Bond Issue
Abu Dhabi's Shuweihat 2 (S2) power and water plant has mandated six banks to help arrange a potential bond issue, Reuters has reported. S2 is 54% owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) . Abu...
View ArticleKUFPEC Offloads Stake In Indonesian Block
Kuwait: Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co (Kufpec) has sold its 25% stake in Indonesia's Ujung Pangkah Block to Saka Energi Indonesia, Reuters has reported. Kufpec bought into the block in East...
View ArticleToo Many Questions Remain On Hawker And Chenault's Gasline
There is not much difference in cost of construction between a 36-inch and a 42-inch gas pipeline . Parnell, BP, Conoco and Exxon's alignment 42-inch gasline cost is estimated to $45 to $65 billion or...
View ArticleHeartland Institute Experts React To Obama's Climate Change Speech
President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term - a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle...
View ArticleUtility Customers Shouldn't Have To Pay For San Onofre Shutdown
A consumer advocate division of the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't believe utility customers should have to deal with the massive costs related to the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear...
View ArticleMassive Tar Mat Found Along La. Coast
Three years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, workers have dug up a massive tar mat found along the Louisiana coast. The huge chunk of oil residue mixed with wet sand is about 165 feet long by 65 feet...
View ArticleAngry Residents Tell EPA Officials To Remove West Lake Nuclear Waste
Resident Byron Clemens said the federal government was responsible for creating the waste during World War II but hasn't done an adequate job managing the material after it was deposited at West Lake....
View ArticleFusion Energy Dreams Smash Into Hard Economic Realities
The old joke about nuclear fusion is that it's the "energy source of the future, and always will be" - but budgetary realities have raised new questions about just how much of a future fusion power...
View ArticleHorizon Lines Plan Diesel/LNG Engine Fuel Conversions
Horizon Lines plans to convert the power plants on two of its steam turbine cargo vessels to modern diesel engines capable of burning conventional liquid fuels or liquefied natural gas (LNG) .
View ArticleLegislation Aims To Address Nuclear Waste Woes
Spent fuel storage pools at Shearon Harris nuclear plant in New Hill, N.C. More than 65,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is stored at operating or shuttered reactor sites in 34 states. (AP) . Four U.S....
View ArticleUS Solar Industry Calls On India To Remove Trade Barriers
The US solar energy industry representatives today said Indias industrial policy discriminates against its exports and hoped that New Delhi will come to the table to discuss the trade barriers.
View ArticleBirdwatchers Flock To See Rare Bird, Then Watch It Killed By Wind Turbine
The White-throated Needletail after it died flying into a wind turbine in Scotland. The very rare bird has needle-like feathers and white markings on its tail and metallic-purple color on its wings.
View ArticleDSM To License Biofuel Technology Once Production Starts In Iowa
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, gasoline and diesel producers are required to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuel a year into their products by 2022, including 16 billion gallons of cellulosic...
View ArticleCongressional Voting House Busy With Offshore Drilling
Voting 256 for and 171 against, the House passed a Republican bill (HR 1613) to implement a Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling treaty in a way that would exempt U.S. oil companies from transparency...
View ArticleBritish Shale Gas Reserves Double. Will The UK Frack?
Considering that BP reports British consumption as 2.76 trillion cubic feet in 2012, this formation is enough to transform the UK energy market, even though only 10-15 percent of shale gas reserves is...
View ArticleWho Will Land Hess' Terminal Network?
There are a lot of names being thrown around as potential purchasers of these assets, including Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC ) , Sunoco Logistics (NYSE: SXL ) , and Buckeye Partners (NYSE: BPL ) ....
View ArticleWhy The Grass Should Not Always Be Greener
The water and chemicals used for fracking, injected into deep wells at high pressure, blast apart shale to produce domestic gas and oil . Fracking is credited with last year's remarkable 14% increase...
View ArticleMoody's Places Desenvix's Ratings Under Review For Possible Downgrade
Desenvix holds interests in 15 power plants with a total installed capacity of 349 MW, consisting of 10 small and medium sized hydro-power plants, one biomass plant and four wind power plants....
View ArticleBill Could Open Bristol Bay To Gas Leasing
"The Obama Administration has placed the majority of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits and placed half of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska off-limits," Hastings said in a recent Committee on...
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