Archive for the 'Alternative Energy' Category

Conference and Trade Fair on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg, has agreed to take on patronage of the H2Expo 2008. “The H2Expo plays an important part as an expert forum, and is a powerful driving force for the development and application of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in Germany and Europe, ” said Mayor von Beust.
“This is very important […]

February 25th, 2008 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Mining News

Genera 2008, the International Energy and Environment Fair

Genera-08, the International Energy and Environment Fair, will provide the framework for the staging of two business meetings among international companies on 27th and 28th February. One of these meetings forms part of an AL-Invest Programme run by the European Union, whilst the other is a ´Brokerage Event´ that will focus on the transfer of […]

February 7th, 2008 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Mining News

Genera 2008, the International Energy and Environment Fair

Genera-08, the International Energy and Environment Fair, will provide the framework for the staging of two business meetings among international companies on 27th and 28th February. One of these meetings forms part of an AL-Invest Programme run by the European Union, whilst the other is a ´Brokerage Event´ that will focus on the transfer of […]

February 7th, 2008 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Mining News

Integrated Manufacturing-Assembly Plant for Solar-Thermal Electric and Power Transmission Grid’s Components Lands in Barstow, California, USA

First ever plant, in synergy, at one location, powered, heated and cooled by own utility-scale solar-thermal electric, multi-fuel merchant power plant.
For Immediate Release – Las Vegas–Barstow, CA, Mojave Desert — Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. (ESE) and Solar MW Energy Inc. (SME), — the designers and developers of utility-scale solar thermal electric multi-fuel power plants and […]

December 20th, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Mining News

Port Waikato wind farm

The New Zealand Wind Energy Association said Contact Energy’s announcement that it intends to build a wind farm in the Waikato will help the Government reach its goal of 90% renewable electricity without building new gas-fired power plants. The farm is expected to generate up to 650 MW of electricity for Waikato and Auckland consumers.
Wind […]

November 1st, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Mining News

OCI to build solar power plant in Egypt

Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries signed an EGP 604 million (US$ 109 million) contract with the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), a subsidiary of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity, for the construction of new 62MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power (ISCC) Plant in Kuraymat, Egypt.
The scope of work under the contract includes all civil work […]

November 1st, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy

Solar Thermal Electric Hybrid Power Plant

Solar MW Energy Inc. and affiliate Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. has commenced the development of another “jewel” near Barstow’s Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, Southern California. A nominal in the aggregate of 59.4 megawatt (MW) solar thermal electric hybrid, utility-scale merchant power plant, to be sited on green field land parcel, privately owned by the […]

November 1st, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy

Chesapeake Energy reportedly dropping ‘Coal Is Filthy’ campaign

Chesapeake Energy Corp. is dropping its support for a series of controversial “Coal is Filthy” advertisements in Texas.
Tom Price, a Chesapeake Energy vice president, said today, “The reason that we’re dropping the support is, it (the advertising campaign) was intended to further the discussion about our nation’s energy supply and whether clean coal at this […]

April 28th, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Coal

Reduce coal use for power, Greenpeace urges India

Holding ‘excessive’ use of coal responsible for climate change, Greenpeace India Friday staged protests at a coal-based power plant here.
The demonstration at Ennore in north Chennai was part of a series of activities the Indian arm of Greenpeace, the international environment organisation, is undertaking to draw attention to the immediate threat from climate change.
‘Even the […]

March 23rd, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Coal, Mining News

With Coal Plans Cut Back, Texas Faces Energy Gap

Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now Texas faces […]

March 8th, 2007 - Posted in Alternative Energy, Coal, Mining News