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Premier Barry O'Farrell announced on Monday night that his cabinet had dumped the ban, which would have seen the fuel replaced with a 10 per cent ethanol blend, Fairfax reported. The O'Farrell government was warned the ban could lead to higher petrol ...

A company called Verdant Power has won the first ever commercial license for a hydrokinetic tidal power facility in the U.S., and that could be just the first drop in a torrent of more than 100 new hydrokinetic projects that are still in the initial stages of permitting around the country. Verdant's project, called RITE for Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy, will tap the powerful currents of New

When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc.

A 486000-barrel stock build on the East Coast boosted overall US fuel ethanol inventories to 19.8 mln barrels for the week ended January 20, 2012, the highest level since late May, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Consequently, there will be no registration procedure for the second half of 2012, and large PV solar plants that have not been registered previously with the GSE will only be eligible for the 2013 feed-in tariff. In order to ensure the fair ...

Jehovah's Witnesses has put its 100-year-old building at 12th and Delaware streets up for sale for $2.9 million. The 34,000-square-foot building includes a 1,200-seat auditorium and geothermal heating and cooling. It could be converted for nonreligious uses, said listing broker Summit Realty Group

The regulations are also aimed at driving forward zero-emission technologies like battery-powered all-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell cars. By 2025, ARB wants to see over 1.4 million zero-emission and plug-in hybrid ...

A hydrogen fuel cell is a zero-emission source of power. Some fuel cells use natural gas or hydrocarbons as fuel, but even those produce far less emissions than conventional sources. Therefore, fuel cells eliminate or at least vastly reduce the ...

Maybank Group has announced details of a US$330.6M loan for Indonesian power producer PT Bajradaya Sentranusa (BDSN) that will be used to take over the entire existing project loans for construction of the 2x90MW Asahan 1 hydroelectric plant in North ...

[This post by Luis de Sousa was published at The Oil Drum.] Last week I went to Longwy's university campus, the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (part of the University of Lorraine), for a conference on renewable energies and energy efficiency.

LUBEC, Maine (AP) -- The Coast Guard is holding a pair of meetings this week to hear from mariners about a tidal energy proposal in Cobscook Bay at Maine's eastern tip.

We write in compliance with the PSE's request for clarification as regard the news article entitled "BacMan geothermal plant seen running by Sept." posted in the BUSINESSWORLD (online Edition) on January 29, 2012. The article reported in part that: ...

BAODING, China, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV")

Monday January 30, 2012 Wind turbines on Lenox Mountain are a bad idea. In Berkshire County we are about conserving our natural resources.