Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting? If so, please provide your comments here. USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world. People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]
Dec 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald writes “Big Utility To Close 11 Plants Using Coal” in The New York Times. A large Southern utility said Tuesday that it would close 30 percent of its North Carolina coal-fired power plants by 2017, a step that represents a bet that natural gas prices will [...]
Nov 26, 2009 – Get the details of Obama’s visit to Copenhagen in John M. Broder’s article in The New York Times.
Nov 22, 3009 – Shell Oil also has a 2-page ad featuring all the good things they are doing with green energy for the blue planet, earth. “FOR THE NEW ENERGY FUTURE, WE NEED TO MAKE IT ALL ADD UP.” Then ther is a picture of a pseudocalculator with one plus button that says, “MORE [...]
Nov 19, 2009 - The New York Times published a full section titled “Business of Grren” Nov 19, 2009. The following articles are included. Click on the title to go to The New York Times article. “Making Renewables Reliable“, “Storm Over the Chamber“, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last“, “Companies Call Government Incentives [...]
Nov 11, 2009 – OK, I don’t know how our new natural gas differs from our old natural gas. The ad shows a perplexed individual [my interpretation] of an individual with a blue flame coming out of his head with the headline, “NATURAL GAS CONTRIBUTED $385 BILLION TO THE ECONOMY LAST YEAR. EUREKA!” [I don’t [...]
Nov 4, 2009 – Statoil’s (OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) third quarter 2009 net operating income was NOK 28.3 billion, compared to NOK 47.0 billion in the third quarter of 2008. The quarterly result was mainly affected by a 31% drop in oil prices and a 32% decrease in the average price of natural gas.
Adjusted earnings in the [...]
Oct 18, 2009 – Are you going to SMARTSALON: ENERGY + THE CITY? It will be held November 12, 2009 at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City. Where do problems and solutions intersect in mapping new energy pathways for the world’s burgeonin cities? PLEASE NOTE: This event is by invitation only!! For more [...]
Oct 6, 2009 – In the presence of ?ubomír Jahnátek, the Slovakian Minister of Economics, the ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Malženice combined cycle power plant in Slovakia. Malženice is located in Trnava, a region with highly dynamic economic development. Siemens Energy is erecting the natural-gas-fired plant for E.ON as a turnkey project. The [...]
Sept 23, 2009 – Are you at The National Energy Summit & International Dialogue featuring 2 days of high-level, outcome-based dialogues focused on addressing specific steps to drive competitiveness and prosperity through secure and sustainable energy? Maria Bartiromo of CNBC is. You should be also. The Summit is presented by the Council on Competitiveness and [...]
Sep 8, 2009 – The world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine – StatoilHydro’s Hywind pilot – was officially inaugurated in the North Sea today, 8 September. Hywind is an example of the way StatoilHydro’s long experience from the offshore oil and gas business can be applied to tomorrow’s market for renewable energy. The floating wind [...]
Jul 7, 2009 – Oil prices have come down recently and the optimism for the economy has stalled. Thus, green energy stocks are giving back their recent gains. Please leave your comments here if you know of any alternative energy stocks that are still gaining. T. Boone Pickens was on CNBC Squawk Box this morning. [...]
July 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald reports in The New York Times, “Algae Farm Aims to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel.” Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels [located in Bonita Springs, Florida] are going to build a demonstration plant that will hopefully produce ethanol from carbon dioxide. Although the ethanol can be sold as a [...]
Jun 26, 2009 – At Kennedy Space Center, Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Suzanne Kosmas and Bill Posey joined officials from Florida Power & Light Company and NASA to celebrate the groundbreaking of FPL’s Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center.
The new solar photovoltaic power facility is the result of a unique public-private partnership between [...]
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