Todays News
ENERGY Ministry rejects EIA of planned power plant in Trang - Bangkok Post, Thailand
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/17Sep2003_news18.html>
The Energy Ministry has rejected an environmental impact assessment study
(EIA) on a 1.4-billion-baht power plant project in Huai Yot district of
Trang. ...
KHATAMI opens power plant in Fars - Irib, Iran
<http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=188222>
Fars Prov, Sept 16 - President Mohammad Khatami here on Tuesday launched
executive operations for the development of Fars combined cycle power
plant and a 23 ...
BUSH calls for power-plant cleanup rules, energy-reliability ... - Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03259/222452.stm>
... Warehouse clerk Percella Vinson cheers as she greets President Bush
during his visit yesterday to the Detroit Edison power plant in Monroe,
Mich. ...
NUCLEAR power plant rechecking employee backgrounds - Newsday
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--millstone-backgro0916sep15,0,5317830.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire>
WATERFORD, Conn. -- Officials at the Millstone nuclear power complex have
begun checking the criminal backgrounds of workers who ...
NRC opens new probe on power plant - The Daily Tar Heel
<http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/16/3f6705324e44f>
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is the subject of yet another investigation
by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission because of inadequacies in safety
procedures ...
POWER plant plan postponed by Corps of Engineers - Zanesville Times Recorder, OH
<http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030916/localnews/265359.html>
DRESDEN -- Attempts to complete a $330 million power plant in northern
Muskingum County hit another snag last month after the US Army Corps of
Engineers ...
BUSH visits Michigan power plant - WNDU-TV, IN
<http://www.wndu.com/news/092003/news_21798.php>
He used the visit to promote legislation that he says will help utilities
produce more environmentally friendly power. The rule ...
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FITCH: Allegheny & Subsidiaries Remain on Rating Watch Evolving ... - Business Wire (press release)
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... A large portion of the proceeds will be used to fund the termination
of the Williams and Las Vegas Cogeneration II tolling agreements and certain
related ... Allegheny Energy Subsidiary Completes Sale of California
Contract ...
CANADA NewsWire summary of releases for Midday, Tuesday September ... - Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada
<http://www.newswire.ca/releases/September2003/16/c1303.html>
... TSO3 hires top sales executive for the US market (a-TSO3-hires-top-Exec)
C1241 - BLENDECQUES, France : Boralex Inaugurates Its First Natural Gas
Cogeneration ...
CALIFORNIA Solar Energy Legislative Success - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5103>
... program provides the largest source of renewable energy project funding
in the nation - US$125 million per year for solar, wind, fuel cell, and
cogeneration ...
RESIDENTS share ideas for energy-rich future - Charlotte Sun-Herald, FL
<http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/091603/tp9np5.htm?date=091603&story=tp9np5.htm>
... More use of natural gas for buses, as a hydrogen conveyor and in cogeneration.
* Encourage the wider use of landfill by products such as methane gas.
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HARNESSING power, strengthening friendship - Kuensel, Bhutan
<http://www.kuenselonline.com/article.php?sid=3283>
... Hydropower project, with an installed capacity of 336 MW, already earning
more than 40 percent of the national revenue and the 1020 MW Tala Hydroelectric
...
SUPPORTERS worry about dam plans - Central Maine Daily Sentinel, ME
<http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/030916dam_meet.shtml>
... Dam, has long held that state government excluded the Maine people
from the decision-making process that led to the possible breaching of
the hydroelectric ...
POWER firm floods more than 100 Nigerian villages: official - TerraDaily
<http://www.terradaily.com/2003/030915172727.fuxx4ncx.html>
More than 100 villages were flooded at the weekend after Nigeria's state
power firm opened an endangered hydroelectric dam, a government spokesman
said Monday. ...
STATUS of Nam Theun 2 requested - Bangkok Post, Thailand
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/17Sep2003_biz66.html>
... He said the Chinese state bank could replace the World Bank, another
prospective financier for Indochina's largest hydroelectric dam project.
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CONSUMER Utilities Secure Wind Power Lands - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5109>
... consumer-owned utilities and a renewable energy non-profit foundation
-- all members of the Last Mile Electric Cooperative (LMEC) -- stepped
up to wind power ...
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UQM, Boeing and others to develop fuel cell powered electric/ ... - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3399,00.html>
... Products, Inc., who is responsible for supplying the electric motors,
controllers and batteries to be used in the project and for flight-testing
the fuel cell ...
PROVIDER: Fuel Cell Today - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3396,00.html>
(OPM) has been awarded a contract from the Department of Energy (DOE) in
order to expand the firm's high temperature fuel cell membrane research
and ...
FIRST CUTE fuel cell bus arrives in Germany - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3398,00.html>
Hamburg is the third city after Barcelona and Reykjavik (ECTOS project,
part of the EU fuel cell bus program) to take part in the fuel cell bus
project, funded ...
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NAVAL Base Ventura County Wins SECNAV Energy Conservation Award - Navy News Stand (press release)
<http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=9515>
POINT MUGU, Calif. (NNS) -- For the second consecutive year, Naval Base
Ventura County (NBVC) has been named as winner of a SECNAV Energy Conservation
Award. ...
GLOBAL Energy Provider BP Announces $1 Million Environmental ... - Yahoo News (press release)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030916/latu099_1.html>
... global energy provider has designed the competition to fund innovative
and creative proposals that promote clean air and water solutions and
energy conservation ...
GREEN Energy Expo Follows Efficiency Project - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5106>
September 16, 2003 {Solaraccess.com] Energy conservation and efficiency
takes center stage in Toronto today as the Dixie Outlet Mall unveils its
100,000 square ...
LATHAM addresses rising costs of natural gas - Iowa State Daily
<http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/16/3f6676426375d>
... Wiggers said energy conservation policies focus mainly on the resistance
to heat transfer, or R value, which does not accurately indicate building
performance ...
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UPDATE 1-FERC probes CenterPoint unit's rate contracts - Reuters, UK
<http://reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=3448449>
... If terms deviate significantly from the pipeline's rate schedule, they
must be reported to FERC or noted on tariff sheets filed with FERC. ...
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MORE Efficient Solar Sheets Developed - Betterhumans, Canada
<http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-09-15-4>
... The first organic solar cell, developed in 1986, was one percent efficient
-- that is, it converted only one percent of available light energy into
electrical ...
UNAXIS keeps focus on customers and integration in deposition and ... - DigiTimes, Taiwan
<http://www.digitimes.com/ST/ST.asp?datePublish=2003/09/16&pages=ST&seq=405>
... company in the coming years, including photomask etching technology
for 65nm and beyond, IC imaging for LED applications, solid-state lighting
and solar-cell ...
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UQM, Boeing and others to develop fuel cell powered electric/ ... - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3399,00.html>
... for electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles, 42-volt
under-the- hood power accessories and other vehicle auxiliaries and distributed
power ...
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BLACKOUT Hurts Kroger - Smart Money
<http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20030916-000899-1027>
... They also include expenses totaling a penny a share from the northeastern
power blackout in August, which affected Kroger operations in Michigan
and Ohio. ...
STATE power grid survived blackout - The Capital Times, WI
<http://www.madison.com/captimes/business/stories/56858.php>
MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin's electric system experienced increased power shifts
during the nation's worst blackout but withstood the impact and operated
as designed ...
WIRELESS industry paints rosy picture of blackout response - RCR Wireless News
<http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=15110>
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry painted a rosy picture Monday of what
happened to its networks during last month's blackout. ...
BLACKOUT blamed for drop in casinos' August revenues - MLive.com (subscription), MI
<http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?g7589_BC_MI--DetroitCasinos-Re&&news&newsflash-michigan>
DETROIT (AP) -- Officials with the city's three casinos blamed the Aug.
14 blackout for their first decline in revenues in three months. ...
BLACKOUT blamed for drop in Detroit casinos' August revenues - Canada.com, Canada
<http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=C29F476F-74EE-41F3-B024-5400BE0189A7>
DETROIT (AP) - Officials with the city's three casinos blamed the Aug.
14 blackout for their first decline in revenues in three months. ...
FLATTER Output In Aug. Is Blamed On Blackout, Car-Model ... - Investor's Business Daily (subscription)
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/feature.asp?v=9/16>
BY CHRISTINA WISE. Industrial production edged up last month, but companies
continue to keep inventories tight, data out Monday showed. ...
BLACKOUT prompts cellular providers to take stock - Kansas City Star, MO
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/6780028.htm>
WASHINGTON - The cellular industry is questioning its reliance on the nation's
electric grid after last month's massive blackout, which outlasted the
backup ...
BLACKOUT blamed for drop in casinos' revenues - Detroit News, MI
<http://www.detnews.com/2003/business/0309/16/c01-272425.htm>
... 14 blackout that forced them to close for nearly two days. The decline
broke a three-month string of revenue increases. The blackout ...
US Wireless firms raise post-blackout concerns - Nzoom.com, New Zealand
<http://technology.nzoom.com/technology_detail/0,1608,221336-113-380,00.html>
The US cellular industry is questioning its reliance on the nation's electric
grid after August's month's massive blackout, which outlasted the backup
power ...
WIRELESS companies studying blackout's impact on cellular ... - Toronto Sun, Canada
<http://www.canoe.com/CNEWS/TechNews/2003/09/15/193703-ap.html>
WASHINGTON (AP) - The US cellphone industry is questioning its reliance
on the electric grid after last month's massive blackout, which outlasted
the backup ...
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NUCLEAR power plant rechecking employee backgrounds - Newsday
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--millstone-backgro0916sep15,0,5317830.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire>
WATERFORD, Conn. -- Officials at the Millstone nuclear power complex have
begun checking the criminal backgrounds of workers who have "unescorted"
access to ...
RUSSIA says no proof Iran could build atom bomb - Reuters AlertNet, UK
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16436516.htm>
VIENNA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Russia, which is helping Iran build a nuclear
power plant, said on Tuesday there was no proof Tehran had the technical
capability ...
NO reasons for stopping nuclear cooperation with Iran: Russian ... - Payvand, Iran
<http://www.payvand.com/news/03/sep/1100.html>
... with Iran. He told Itar-Tass on Monday, "The construction of the nuclear
power plant in Bushehr will be continued.". Rumyantsev is ...
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LEARN more about energy issues - Oak Ridger, TN
<http://www.oakridger.com/stories/091603/new_20030916013.shtml>
* www.ornl.gov/ORNL/Energy_Eff/distributedenergy.html details ORNL's work
with distributed energy, including the microturbine at the Combined Cooling,
Heating ...
COMPANY Information Center - Business Wire (press release)
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... These drive systems -- integrated into EPT's electric and hybrid fleet
using a Capstone (Nasdaq:CPST) 30kW microturbine -- operate in several
Italian cities ...
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OVER 30 State of Illinois Buildings to Participate in Electric ... - Yahoo News (press release)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030916/cgtu049_1.html>
... of Central Management Services has agreed to participate in the Company's
development of an estimated $25 million, 50-Megawatt Power Curtailment
system for ...
US nuclear plants eye dangerous Hurricane Isabel - Forbes
<http://www.forbes.com/markets/commodities/newswire/2003/09/15/rtr1082112.html>
... Nuclear units lying closest to Isabel's forecast path include Dominion
Resources Inc.'s (nyse: D - news - people) 1,624 megawatt Surry station
in Virginia and ...
POWER price up as lakes fall - Otago Daily Times, New Zealand
<http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=16Sep2003&object=0915633101&type=html>
Electricity cost an average $62.13 a megawatt hour on Sunday, up from $61.74
a week earlier, according to an index maintained by the Marketplace Co,
manager of ...
STATUS of Nam Theun 2 requested - Bangkok Post, Thailand
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/17Sep2003_biz66.html>
... The 920-megawatt electricity supply from Nam Theun 2 is currently included
in the PDP as the part of 3,000 MW that Thailand has agreed to purchase
from Laos. ...
RUSSIA says no proof Iran could build atom bomb - Reuters AlertNet, UK
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16436516.htm>
... to construct the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, even though diplomats
said Washington was putting strong pressure on Moscow to abandon the 1,000
megawatt ...
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MILLENNIUM Electric TOU awarded Herzliya solar contract - Globes Online, Israel
<http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=724382&fid=942>
... UCSY) has announced that its subsidiary Millennium Electric TOU has
been awarded a municipal contract by the city of Herzliya to build and
install photovoltaic ...
CALIFORNIA Solar Energy Legislative Success - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5103>
... legislation, which passed by a vote of 47 to 31, would ensure the continued
existence of one of California's two major programs that boost solar photovoltaic
...
STATE recommits itself to renewable energy - Independent Online, South Africa
<http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=561&fArticleId=235883>
... consumed by 2013, which will be achieved via renewable energy power
generation and other sources such as biodiesel, solar water heating, solar
photovoltaic ...
SOLAR Power Illuminates Villages in India - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5108>
The funding has provided for the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV)
arrays and battery back up systems, which exemplify a government trend
towards ...
FLORIDA Company to Install Solar PV in Israel - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5105>
... Systems, of Miami, Florida, a subsidiary of Millennium Electric, has
received a contract from the city of Herzliah, Israel, to build and install
photovoltaic ...
DAILY News Transcript E-News - Stoughton Journal, MA
<http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/local_regional/wstw_grant09162003.htm>
... Kane told selectmen the grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
would allow a team to install photovoltaic systems in the fire station,
high ...
MORE Efficient Solar Sheets Developed - Betterhumans, Canada
<http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-09-15-4>
... Such versatile features have motivated researchers to pursue organic
photovoltaic films for many years, but the technology has been plagued
with problems of ...
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FOR renewable energy - Boston Globe, MA
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2003/09/16/for_renewable_energy>
... Such a requirement, which utilities could also meet by buying renewable
energy credits from other utilities with an excess of such power, would
reduce ...
STATE recommits itself to renewable energy - Independent Online, South Africa
<http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=561&fArticleId=235883>
Cape Town - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the minerals and energy minister, yesterday
recommitted her department to the promotion of renewable energy with the
...
PUBLIC, Private Sectors Need To Work Together On Renewable Energy ... - Pakistan News Service, Pakistan
<http://www.paknews.com/flash.php?id=12&date1=2003-09-16>
... PNS) - Secretary Science and Technology, Shahzad Hassan Pervez on Monday
urged the need for public and private sectors to work together on the
renewable energy ...
US biotechnology grant to help renewable energy research - Penn State Digital Collegian, PA
<http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/09/09-16-03tdc/09-16-03dnews-03.asp>
By Kristin Casale. Penn State biotechnology research got a leg up recently
after receiving a $610,913 grant from the federal departments ...
MASSACHUSETTS Electric Offers Customers New Green Energy Program - Business Wire (press release)
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&epi-process=generic_process.jsp&newsId=20030916005955&headlineSearchConfigBO=1063749600000%201063766770000%20%20groupByDate%20%201%20-4%201063749600000%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%201000151%20false%20true%20&newsPopup=false&newsLang=en&beanID=478837757&viewID=news_process_view>
... Electric Company today announced GreenUp, a new program that offers
residential and small business customers the opportunity to support such
renewable energy ...
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CALL to save energy for reducing costs - Stafford News, UK
<http://www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article_41968.shtml>
... across the Black Country and Staffordshire are being urged not to throw
their profits away by wasting energy in the run-up to National Energy
Efficiency Week. ...
POWER switch aims to save the planet - icWales, UK
<http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13412414_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Power-switch-aims-to--save-the-planet--name_page.html>
... While energy efficiency begins in the home, for the last two years
HM Treasury has failed to introduce any fiscal incentives for homeowners
and support the ...
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OFFICIALS delve into natural gas explosion - Mattoon Journal, IL
<http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2003/09/16/news/news02.txt>
... asking a lot of questions. Neighbors are still stunned by a natural
gas explosion at 3321 Shelby Ave. that occurred after an uncapped ...
NATURAL Gas Services Group Announces Wallace C. Sparkman Has Been ... - Yahoo News (press release)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030916/datu014_1.html>
MIDLAND, Texas, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Natural Gas Services
Group, Inc. (Amex: NGS - News), a leading provider of equipment ...
NATURAL Gas Report Featured at National Petroleum Council Meeting - U.S. Newswire (press release), DC
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=142-09162003>
... meeting will feature remarks by Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy,
as well presentation of the proposed final report from the NPC Committee
on Natural Gas. ...
BOLIVIAN Unrest Over Plans to Export Natural Gas - Infoshop News
<http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/09/16/2221367>
... in Bolivia have launched a series of strikes and set up roadblocks
across the country to show their opposition to government plans to export
natural gas. ...
CORRIDOR Resources Inc . - McCully production wells natural gas ... - Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada
<http://www.newswire.ca/releases/September2003/16/c1379.html>
... (CDH - TSX-VEN) announced today that APA Petroleum Engineering Inc.
(APA) of Calgary has completed an independent engineering report for the
natural gas ...
NEBRASKA agency to monitor natural gas provider - Aberdeen American News, SD
<http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/6778915.htm>
OMAHA, Neb. - A South Dakota utility's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing was
not expected to affect its natural gas customers in Nebraska. ...
SCHOOLS plan to buy natural gas in bulk - Gary Post Tribune, IN
<http://www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/news/z1/09-16-03_z1_news_18.html>
By buying natural gas in bulk and pooling their demand, the Duneland School
System and several other Northwest Indiana school systems are hoping to
save money ...
EXPECT natural gas prices to remain high - Syracuse Post Standard, NY
<http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business-4/106370142389810.xml>
By Tim Knauss. Last winter's high natural gas prices are back. Consumers
are expected to spend about as much money heating their ...
LATHAM addresses rising costs of natural gas - Iowa State Daily
<http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/16/3f6676426375d>
Representatives from major energy suppliers met with Congressman Tom Latham
Monday to discuss solutions to what some have called a natural gas crisis.
Rep. ...
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