Spanish power group Iberdrola, the world’s largest owner of wind-energy parks, reported Thursday that its first quarter net profit jumped to 1.20 billion euros (1.91 billion dollars) from the year earlier 458 million euros.
In an intial summary on the three months period ahead of a full report due on Monday, the company said earnings before […]
In a Rose Garden speech, President Bush proposed stopping the growth of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and urged other industrialized nations to set goals to address climate change.
While setting a broad goal, the president offered only a general outline — and few specifics — about how to achieve the objectives.
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey […]
A Utah company seeking federal permission to import and dispose of more than 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy has raised its campaign contributions to U.S. lawmakers by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. is donating to members of key energy committees in Congress as it increasingly seeks lucrative federal contracts […]
Ethanex Energy Inc. plans to seek bankruptcy court protection in the “immediate future,” according to its posting Monday with securities regulators.
The Basehor ethanol company has ended an agreement to buy a small ethanol plant in Nebraska and dismissed three of its six officials. Its decisions follow failed efforts to raise $1.5 million in interim financing.
Ethanex […]
Central States Enterprises has announced plans to build a new corn ethanol facility which will be located next its present grain terminal near Montpelier.
According to a press release issued by the company over the weekend to the Muncie Star Press, the $150 million project will provide 200 jobs during construction and will create about 40 […]
Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment Worksheet and its review process, […]
India’s Era Engineering Innovations (EII) has committed an investment of US$5 million into coal-powered energy generation in Zambia following the just-ended Conclave on Indo-Africa Project Partnership in New Delhi.
Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, who led the Zambian delegation to the meeting signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EII director, Ajay Mishra over […]
Despite a swarm of economic problems and rising fossil fuel costs, last year was a banner year for clean energy, according to an outlook report by Clean Edge, a research and publishing firm.
According to Clean Edge’s report, biofuels (global production and wholesale pricing of ethanol and biodiesel) reached $25.4 billion in 2007 and are projected […]
With the rising price of oil, bicycle manufacturers are jumping on the electric bicycle bandwagon, exhibiting e-bikes and an e-bike test track at the Taipei International Cycle Show in Taipei this week to promote the use of the battery-powered bikes.
The biggest bicycle show in Asia and third biggest in the world is also organizing […]
Cenex, the UK’s national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is hosting a one-day conference, ‘Biomethane for Transport’, at Devonport House, Greenwich, London, on Monday 3rd March.
In partnership with the Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technology Knowledge Transfer Network, the Natural Gas Vehicle Association (NGVA) and the Environmental Protection UK (EPUK), […]