U.S. Energy Corp., a diversified natural resource company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, gold, and real estate, today provided a review of 2007 results and an update on current operations for its primary business segments.
Review of 2007 Accomplishments
The year ended December 31, 2007 was the most profitable in U.S. Energy Corp.’s history, due [...]
First ever plant, in synergy, at one location, powered, heated and cooled by own utility-scale solar-thermal electric, multi-fuel merchant power plant.
For Immediate Release – Las Vegas–Barstow, CA, Mojave Desert — Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. (ESE) and Solar MW Energy Inc. (SME), — the designers and developers of utility-scale solar thermal electric multi-fuel power plants and [...]
Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries signed an EGP 604 million (US$ 109 million) contract with the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), a subsidiary of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity, for the construction of new 62MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power (ISCC) Plant in Kuraymat, Egypt.
The scope of work under the contract includes all civil work [...]
Solar MW Energy Inc. and affiliate Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. has commenced the development of another “jewel” near Barstow’s Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, Southern California. A nominal in the aggregate of 59.4 megawatt (MW) solar thermal electric hybrid, utility-scale merchant power plant, to be sited on green field land parcel, privately owned by the [...]
State regulators on Tuesday signed off on plans to build one of the nation’s first plants that would turn dirty coal into cleaner fuel, generating electricity while dramatically reducing smog and mercury pollution.
If built amid cornfields outside Taylorville, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, the 630-megawatt plant would provide a lucrative boost to the state’s [...]
A revival of the coal industry in Wales was put forward as a possibility by Peter Hain today.
The Secretary of State for Wales said: “Fossil fuels are going to provide us with the bulk of our energy for the foreseeable future, coal included, so if we are going to tackle the urgent problem of climate [...]
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has claimed to have discovered around 1,000 uranium favourable sites, which could provide the required fuel for its proposed nuclear power plants.
Four of the 1000 sites were being mined and another nine with potential uranium reserves had been identified as very promising, Dawn quoted officials [...]
Environmental groups warn of new pollution if state permits coal-burning plant in Early County
To make their point, they stood along River Street with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as “acid rain” and “mercury poisoning.”
A few tourists gathered nearby as representatives from three Georgia-based environmental groups called on Gov. Sonny [...]
“All I can see is the future of the oil and gas industry as we know it is good,” he said. “The biggest problem we have is finding oil and gas. I see a great future for energy and oil and gas will be there. We’re all going to live in the hydrocarbon era.”
But the [...]
Top coal-burning countries like the United States should start burying carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as a wider crackdown on greenhouse gases looks increasingly likely, according to a study.
The U.S. government should help fund up to five demonstration projects that entomb emissions of the main gas scientists link to global warming, said the study, [...]
