GE Energy announced today that it has signed a 15-year service agreement with South African oil and gas company Sasol. Under the agreement, GE Energy will provide around-the-clock monitoring and diagnostics of Sasol’s new power plant in Secunda, which could help ease South Africa’s energy crisis.
South Africa, which has Africa’s largest economy, is in the [...]
The New Zealand Wind Energy Association said Contact Energy’s announcement that it intends to build a wind farm in the Waikato will help the Government reach its goal of 90% renewable electricity without building new gas-fired power plants. The farm is expected to generate up to 650 MW of electricity for Waikato and Auckland consumers.
Wind [...]
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible [...]
Indonesia is guaranteeing repayment of loans extended to state electricity firm, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), to encourage the building of new coal-fired power plants, the finance ministry said on Thursday.
Indonesia, struggling to cope with electricity shortages, has said it will speed up construction of 10,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants to add capacity between [...]
TORONTO - Leonard Allen, who runs a small solar-panel company here, finally has something good to tell callers, he says. For the first time, he can promise it won’t take 50 years to recoup the money they spend on a rooftop solar system.
Canada’s Ontario province has ordered local utility companies to pay homeowners or businesses [...]
They are angry over a multi-million dollar project which will upgrade a transmission line servicing central Denver.
People living near the new poles say they were never contacted about the project and they do not like it.
Xcel Energy got started on this project three years ago, a spokesperson says, and they went through all the necessary [...]
Leonard Allen, who runs a small solar panel company here, finally has something good to tell callers, he says. For the first time, he can promise it won’t take 50 years to recoup the money they spend on a rooftop solar system.
Canada’s Ontario province has ordered local utility companies to pay homeowners or businesses for [...]
TO address the growing electricity demand in the region, Filipino-owned Sultan Energy Phils. Corp. has committed itself to build and operate a new minemouth coal-fired power plant in Mindanao that is targeted to be operational by 2011.
Rufino Bomasang, president of Sultan Energy and MG Mining and Energy Corp., on Wednesday announced that the company will [...]
The largest power plant in South Dakota history, a proposal already under fire from environmental advocates for using coal instead of wind, would be 50 percent more expensive than previously estimated, according to utility executives.
Otter Tail Power Co. officials told Minnesota regulators last week that the price of building the coal-burning Big Stone II plant [...]
A new report by the Environment Michigan Research and Policy Center regarding the future construction of coal-fired power plants suggests that, if the United States invested $137 billion in energy-efficiency measures instead of building power plants, electricity demand could be reduced by 19% by 2025.
The nation’s energy companies plan to build more than 150 coal-fired [...]
