Iran creates national fund for energy projects The Siasat Daily | Tehran, February 08: Iran is to create a "national energy fund" to meet the need for capital for oil and gas projects, the Iranian Oil Minister says. | "The special fund will be created through cooperation with four state banks as well as the Central Bank of Iran," Masoud Mir-Kazemi said on Sunday...
Southwestern Colorado turns to sunflowers for energy Denver Post | For 99 years, furnace tenders like "Outback" John Schertz have loaded coal into a giant boiler in the basement of the San Juan County courthouse. | Now Schertz is adding sunflower hulls into the flames. | Those hulls, pulverized and pressed into green pellets, represent a new twist in a southweste...
$250M biomass energy plant planned at Shelton The Examiner Comments SEATTLE (Map, News) - Areva, the international energy company based in France, and Charlotte, N.C., based Duke Energy have formed a joint venture to build a biomass energy plant at Shelton. | The joint venture called Adage plans to spend $25...
Wintry weather drives energy prices higher The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Energy prices climbed Monday as another winter storm was expected to dump even more snow on the East Coast. | Already, parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington are blanketed in about three feet of snow,...
Walter Energy upgraded on coal price outlook The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Shares of Walter Energy Inc. are poised to climb with rising metallurgical coal prices, said an analyst Monday as he upgraded the coal producer's stock. | Brean Murray Carret analyst Jeremy Sussman said he expects stro...
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Chavez turns to Cubans for help with energy crisis Breitbart CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela's energy crisis, drawing criticism for seeking advice from the comm...
Obama In New Push for Energy Bill CBS News Meets Governors from Coal-Producing States | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP / CBS) Stories Hold Off On Those Climate Bill Obituaries (CBS) President Barack Obama is meeting wit...
Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill The New York Times | President Obama acknowledged yesterday that the Senate may pass an energy bill this year without the cap-and-trade component he has long put at the center of his environmental ag...
Walter Energy upgraded on coal price outlook The Miami Herald | NEW YORK -- Shares of Walter Energy Inc. are poised to climb with rising metallurgical coal prices, said an analyst Monday as he upgraded the coal producer's stock. | Brean Murray Carret analyst Jeremy Sussman said he expects strong macroeconomic c...
Wintry weather drives energy prices higher Newsday | February 8, 2010 CHRIS KAHN (AP Energy Writer) | (AP) — Natural gas prices climbed Monday as another winter storm was expected to dump even more snow on the East Coast. | Already, parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington are...
Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana Business Day Online Concerns over energy supply security and oil-price volatility are generating greater interest in alternative energy sources in Ghana. Civil society groups want a comprehensive biofuel policy. Godwin NNANNA in Accra writes that so far the policy has been slow in coming | The lines between energy and agriculture are becoming more blurred. As science ...
Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year The New York Times | Despite a crippling recession and tight credit markets, the American wind power industry grew at a blistering pace in 2009, adding 39 percent more capacity. The country is close to the point where 2 percent of its electricity will come from wind turbines. | While that is still a small share, it is up from virtually nothing a few years ago. Contin...
