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Big future tipped for wood pellet fuel – Waikato Times (Hamilton, New Zealand)
New Zealand’s largest wood pellet fuel plant, owned by Solid Energy,
was due to be opened in Taupo today, its first major shipment destined for
European power plants. The $34 million plant was due to be opened by Prime Minister John Key today,
initially producing 40,000 tonnes of clean- burning,
EPA Sets Timetable for Regulating Greenhouse Gases
February 23, 2010 – EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson laid out a timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions on Monday. Jackson wrote to lawmakers that she plans to start targeting large facilities, such as power plants, next year but won’t target small emitters before 2016. << Full Story >>
ENERGY SITUATION IN LUZON REMAINS CRITICAL – The Manila Times
Power reserves in the Luzon grid continued to be slim after only one
of two power plants that the government was banking on to improve the supply
situation came online. Carlito Claudio, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) vice
president for system operations, said on Monday that
Nigerian hydropower plant project approved
According to local media, the hydropower project planned in the Kaduna State in Nigeria has been approved. The news came right after the country has entered into an energy crisis from shortages of gas, resulting in four power plants getting shut down.
The dam project built for the purpose of water supply, has now been reevaluated [...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, Nm)
NEW NUKES, OR NONE Let’s be careful what we ask for, especially regarding nuclear power. It’s
not free, and it’s certainly not clean. Extensive environmental damage occurs in the mining and refining of uranium.
Expensive power plants are showing signs of age and leaking carcinogens, and
huge
Iran plans new renewable energy plants: minister
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Opec member Iran plans to develop new renewable energy power plants over the next five years with capacity totaling 2,000 megawatts (MW) to meet energy demand, its deputy minister for electricity said on Sunday.
Task force touts many benefits of biomass – Lexington Herald-Leader
Kentucky has the potential to develop thousands of jobs in the
renewable-fuels industry, but it will take a lot of work and investment to
achieve that, according to a state task force. A full-scale system to produce fuel for power plants and vehicles made from
renewable sources such as grass and
Trans-Asia Oil eyes four Napocor power plants – The Manila Times
Trans-Asia Oil & Energy Development Corp. (TA Oil) has expressed its
interest to bid for National Power Corp.’s (Napocor) four large power plants
that are scheduled to be auctioned off this year. “We’re looking at Malaya, Bac-man [Bacon-Manito] and Bauang diesel in Luzon
and Iligan diesel in
PSALM lines up Napocor assets for sale in 2010 – The Manila Times
State-owned Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp.
(PSALM) said it would privatize at least two power plants and two contracts
with third-party generating plants in the first quarter of 2010. Conrad Tolentino, PSALM vice president, said up for sale are the 246-
megawatt Angat hydro
Farmgen looks at Cumbria options – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)
ANAEROBIC digestion specialist Farmgen has unveiled ambitious
expansion plans across the country for 2010 – with more possible sites in
Cumbria. Farmgen, which is building one of its environmentally-friendly rural power
plants in Warton, near Preston, and has applied for permission to
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