The U.S. wind energy industry is on track to install a record 2,750 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity in 2006, which will produce about as much electricity as is used by the entire state of Rhode Island and help strengthen energy security, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its Third Quarter Market Report. [...]

Uzbekistan will start supplying low-enriched uranium for Japanese power stations in 2007, a uranium mine chief said in remarks broadcast Friday.
About 300 tons of low-enriched uranium will be exported in 2007 to Japan via trading company Itochu Corp., Nikolai Kucherskii, the director of the state-owned Navoi mining complex, said in televized comments.
In late August, former [...]

International Power has acquired the 436 MW Levanto onshore wind farm portfolio from Christofferson Robb & Company for an enterprise value of £379m.
The Levanto wind farms comprise 286 MW of capacity in operation, 126 MW under construction, due to start operation in 2007, and 24 MW of fully permitted capacity, expected in 2008.
Some 409 MW [...]

NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. Michael C. Burns, Chairman and President of Uniterre Resources Ltd., announced today that the company has changed its corporate name. The new name, effective immediately, is NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. On the TSX Venture Exchange, NaiKun will trade under the symbol NKW (previously “UNT”).
Mr. Burns noted that the new [...]

The utility is making a bid to turn to “green” alternatives to coal to meet growing electricity needs.
Xcel Energy Inc. is planning to turn to wind and water to head off a forecast shortfall of electricity.
The utility plans to get enough additional energy to power 375,000 homes from the projects, which would begin operating in [...]

Grocery retailer Whole Foods Market has begun selling Renewable Choice Energy’s Wind Power Card at almost 80 whole foods market locations across the US, allowing customers to buy wind energy credits over the counter.
The card is available exclusively at Whole Foods Market stores, marking an historic turning point in the way consumers purchase wind power.
The [...]

MUMBAI - Two-month-high prices and shopping fatigue after a string of festivals last month have seen Indian gold demand for the wedding season easing this week.
Dealers and traders said retail shopping for trousseaus is yet to commence as consumers wait for the right price and the right time to buy gold.
“Demand will pick up,” said [...]

Newmont Mining, benefiting from high gold prices that more than compensated for lower production, yesterday reported a 57% jump in Q3 profit. Net earnings were $198 million, or $0.44/share, compared with $126 million, or $0.28/share, a year earlier. The EPS figure bested analyst expectations of $0.43, and the shares gained over 3% on the [...]

Shell is moving ahead with its plans for drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea next year.
Shell plans two wells at the Siv Ullig field and two wells east of that at a location named Olympia, Paul Smith, Shell operations manager, said at a recent National Marine Fisheries Service meeting.
Siv Ullig was previously known as [...]

Parker Drilling Co., a provider of contract drilling and related services to oil and gas companies, said Wednesday third-quarter earnings grew 3 percent, helped by better dayrates at some rigs and higher revenue from tool rental.
Quarterly net income rose to $18.6 million, or 17 cents per share, compared with a profit of $18.1 million, or [...]