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 [...]
Ukraine is planning to become self-dependent in terms of uranium supplies for its operating nuclear power plants by boosting annual production of this metal to 2,500 tonnes between 2007 and 2013, the republic’s Fuel and Energy Ministry told RBC. The target is to reach an output level of 5,900 tonnes of uranium per year in [...]
If you want a glimpse of this province’s energy future, drive the winding country roads to its eastern tip, take a left at the sign for the village of Elmira, and follow the red dirt track to the right.
You can’t miss it.
Ten wind turbines stand along the trail, each 26 stories tall, with blades as [...]
The 350 megawatt station now looked ”marginally economic”, Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder said.
There was no prospect of a Buller plant being operational in 2008, as originally planned. Solid Energy had better prospects, with better returns and less uncertainty, Dr Elder said.
”It’s just not a priority for us. We’ll leave it on the shelf [...]
State-owned electricity company Genesis Energy is making a foray into coal exploration though a carbon charge is on the cards and the Government has a green bent.
One of the five big electricity retailers and generators, Genesis has applied for a coal exploration permit for the Mokau coalfield in the King Country.
The permit is a first [...]
“Helping the wind industry fulfill its potential to supply an increasing amount of clean renewable energy to New Zealand homes and industry, fits in perfectly with my values†says Gerry Coates, the new Chair of the Board of the New Zealand Wind Energy Association.
Mr Coates is a consulting engineer, and past President of the Institution [...]
British Gas owner Centrica has revealed plans for a possible new coal-fired power station on Teesside, the first in the UK since Drax was built in 1974.
The firm claims it would be the UK’s greenest fossil fuel station, using both clean-coal and carbon-capture technology at the same time.
It would cost about £1bn ($1.9bn) and supply [...]
As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it [...]
As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it [...]
China’s economic growth poses no threat to the global energy supply, Long Yongtu, general secretary of the Bo’ao Asian Forum and China’s former chief negotiator at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said.
“The notion of a Chinese threat to the global energy supply reflects fears about China’s rise on the part of some Westerners,” Long [...]
