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French supermarket takes to water to cut carbon footprint
Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)
For the first time since the Middle Ages the River Seine in Paris is being revived as a means of commercial transport. Supermarket chain Franprix on Monday inau...
Lightning sparks mass power cut in Azerbaijan: official
Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)
A lightning strike that damaged a key power station in Azerbaijan sparked a mass power cut Friday in Baku and other parts of the country, halting the capital's ...
US Electricity Generation Wastes Huge Amounts Of Water
Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)
Huge demands on increasingly scarce water are a major hidden cost of a "business as usual" approach to American electricity generation that needs to be more ful...
Prominent Nevada Policymakers Show Support for Geothermal
Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)
With the GEA Geothermal Energy Expo less than two weeks away, key Nevada policymakers have thrown their support behind the event and the state's geothermal indu...
LADWP Approves Environmental Study of New Transmission Project to Access Renewable Energy
Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Water and Power Commissioners have approved the final environmental document required to expand a...
Think twice before imposing carbon tariffs: researchers
Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)
Calls for carbon taxes to tackle global warming often dodge the complexity of this issue, with the risk that hasty action could damage the world economy and fue...
'Smart growth' strategies curb car use, greenhouse gas emissions
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
A new study finds that smart growth approaches to urban planning could substantially reduce the number of miles that residents drive in a year. The research was...
Home sweet lab: Computerized house to generate as much energy as it uses
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
In a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 12, 2012, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory d...
China to invest $3.5 bn in Zimbabwe power plant: report
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese firm is planning to set up a $3.5 billion thermal power station to generate about 1,200 megawatts of electricity in energy-starved Zimbabwe, state med...
EP passes sulfur fuel, efficiency bills
Sep 14, 2012 (UPI)
The European Parliament has approved stringent new rules for sulfur content in marine fuels as well as a new EU energy efficiency directive. Parliament, meeting...
France's Hollande outlines 'green' energy policy
Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)
President Francois Hollande Friday pledged to close France's oldest operational nuclear plant in 2016 and rejected seven proposals for shale gas exploration on ...
Panda Power Funds Breaks Ground on 758 MW Temple, Texas Power Plant
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
Panda Power Funds was joined by officials from across the state to break ground on the company's 758-megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant in ...
Cuba outage points to infrastructure flaws
Sep 12, 2012 (UPI)
The worst reported power outage in recent Cuban history has spotlighted a flaw in President Raul Castro's plan to wean the country from communism into a Chinese...
France aims at tiered energy pricing to encourage savings
Sep 09, 2012 (AFP)
France's new Socialist government unveiled plans this past week to introduce a tiered energy pricing system to encourage people to reduce their use of electrici...
Renewable Energy Sources Could be the Key to Reaching Through to Iran
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
Why are we even talking about Iran's nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? If we can remove bad politics from the equa...
Electricity prices spark welcome political collaboration
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
The inquiry into Australia's rising electricity prices is welcome news for both consumers and the clean energy industry, according to the Clean Energy Council. ...
Australia abandons coal power plant closure plans
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
The Australian government Wednesday walked away from talks to close down some of the nation's highest-polluting, coal-fired, power stations, in a move condemned...
Australian shipping emissions identified
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
Ship engine exhaust emissions make up more than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions generated in the Australian region according to a recently-published study...
Russian Arctic resources
Aug 30, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
The Arctic Region is often referred to as the "resource depository" of the future. Deemed as a strategically important region, the Arctic boasts a variety of na...
Zimbabwe utility halts disconnections
Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority has halted disconnecting customers, a shift in policy that had been developed because of a epidemic of customers not p...
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