Greenhouse gas emissions over a decade-long period were analyzed by the U.S. Energy Administration, which shows a...
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2013-05-13 18:21:11
Renewable energy companies from China and Hong Kong need to repay $US3.5 billion of debt this year, prompting global investors to fret that another issuer will follow Suntech Power Holdings Co. into default. Solar, wind, hydro and nuclear companies also ...
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2013-05-13 17:02:21
The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects for countries who economies depend on them.
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2013-05-13 15:08:08
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that conserving rainforests in the Amazon River Basin will increase the amount of electricity that hydropower projects in the area can produce. The study is the first to quantify the impact of regional rainforest cover on energy production
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2013-05-13 14:03:37
Philippine renewable energy company, PhilCarbon Inc., plans to resurrect the century-old 50-kilowatt Pasonanca hydropower station in Zamboanga City. PhilCarbon president Ruth Yu-Owen said the company will invest P10 million to rehabilitate and ...
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2013-05-13 11:07:54
French energy group GDF Suez is to sell a stake of 20 percent in a giant dam being built in Brazil to Japanese group Mitsui & Co to reduce debt, GDF Suez said on Monday.
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2013-05-13 06:54:25
The indigenous people of Brazil's most northerly region have been conducting a wind power trial, in a bid to convince the government that it's a realistic alternative to the country's controversial hydroelectric dams. Roraima is both the northernmost and least ...
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2013-05-13 06:25:14
KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take charge.
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2013-05-13 06:07:03
ALbania's Premier Berisha inaugurated two hydroelectric power plants on the Jackson River, the mouth of Vanave, in the district of Kukes. Hydro is an investment worth 32 million euros and 10 MW capacity. In Jackson River cascade hydropower stations ...
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2013-05-13 01:57:07
In “The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity and the Men Who Invented Modern America,” historian Maury Klein says the key events in America’s powering up for the electric era came during the Chicago World’s Fair of 1883 and the building of the hydroelectric dam just downstream from Niagara Falls
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2013-05-12 18:14:15
In recognition of dam removal's socioeconomic and recreation impacts, DOI states that “peaking flows from operation of the hydroelectric project currently allow for commercial whitewater boating in mid- to late-summer.” The final EIS predicts the number of ...
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2013-05-12 00:12:58
The plant — along with Bowersock's turn-of-the century hydroelectric plant on the south bank of the Kaw — sells all its electricity to the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities. Don Gray, general manager for BPU, said the 25-year contract with Bowersock is an ...
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2013-05-11 15:38:56
The Nunavut Government is concerned about the impact a proposed hydroelectric project near Iqaluit may have on local habitat and wildlife.
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2013-05-11 11:47:13
The leaders of two major power grid operators in the Northeast said Friday that the region needs a more diverse mix of fuel to generate power, and more pipeline and transmission capacity to bring the energy here.
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2013-05-11 02:20:31
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