The Atlantic City Convention Center plans to install what it says will be the largest single-building solar energy project in the U.S.
Under a 20-year agreement, the New Jersey facility will hire Pepco Holdings’ Pepco Energy Services to install the solar panels on 290,000 square feet — or about two-thirds — of its main roof.
The center [...]

Shares of several U.S. aluminum producers moved higher Friday as low inventories and tight supply raised prospects for continued price hikes.
Barclays Capital said in a research report that demand growth for aluminum, though slower this year than last, has remained robust.
Also, consumer inventories of aluminum are at relatively low levels in both the U.S. and [...]

Florida Governor Charlie Crist and Jeff Lyash, president and chief executive officer of Progress Energy Florida, unveiled plans for Sustainable Electrical Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS), an innovative renewable energy technology that will be evaluated at two sites in St. Petersburg. The sites will serve as research hubs for unique technology that could be used [...]

On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats pushed for the government to take some of the billions of dollars in profits made by the five biggest U.S. oil companies. But the move was blocked by Republicans, who also thwarted a Democratic proposal to give the government greater power to address oil market speculation that some argue has [...]

AUSTRALIAN iron ore producers, arguing for a freight premium to be included in this year’s contract prices with reluctant Chinese steelmakers, are expected to shrug off the emergence of a new iron ore exchange market created by Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.
The exchange gives smaller Chinese steel producers a chance to hedge their costs in [...]

A unit of Duke Energy Corp. wants to spend about $100 million to install solar panels to generate electricity at as many as 850 sites.
The proposal, filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, aims to install the panels at schools, homes, stores and factories.
If approved, Duke Energy Carolinas would spend two years installing the panels, [...]

Currently, global sulfur production is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia and the Middle East. The global trade volume of sulfur in 2006 reached 27.7 million tons and meanwhile, China imported 8.81 million tons, accounting for 31.8% of the world’s total. According to the statistics, China consumed about 10 million tons of sulfur in 2006, while [...]

State-controlled uranium miner Atomredmedzoloto will be in charge of developing Elkon and other deposits. The company plans to produce 10,000 tonnes a year of uranium by 2015, more than three times what it produced last year. (Reporting by Polina Devitt, writing by Robin Paxton; Editing by David Cowell) - ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 8 - [...]

The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency.
The IEA envisions an “energy revolution” that would greatly reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining [...]

Senate Republicans blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases.
Democratic leaders fell a dozen votes short of getting the 60 needed to end a Republican filibuster on the measure and bring the bill up for a vote, prompting Majority Leader Harry Reid to pull the legislation from consideration.
The Senate [...]