Reliant Energy Closes on Previously Announced Sale of Northeastern Marketing Assets to Hess Corporation

Reliant Energy has completed the previously announced sale of the Northeastern electricity marketing assets of its retail subsidiaries, Reliant Energy Solutions East and Reliant Energy Solutions Northeast, to Hess Corporation. Reliant Energy, Inc. based in Houston, provides electricity and energy services to retail and wholesale customers in the United... 

Tags: Acquisition, Electricity, electricity marketing assets, energy services, fuel oil, Hess Corporation, Houston, Natural Gas, Reliant Energy Inc., Reliant Energy Solutions East, Reliant Energy Solutions Northeast, retail electricity customers, retail subsidiaries, Texas, United States

Alpha Natural Resources Donates $25,000 to The Nature Conservancy’s Clinch Valley Program

The Nature Conservancy announced today that Alpha Natural Resources has donated $25,000 to the international group to help advance its conservation work in southwestern Virginia’s Clinch River Valley. The gift will support a joint Nature Conservancy and Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy (DMME) project to inventory and set priorities... 

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China Energy Expands Heating Supply Capacity

China Energy Corporation, a leading producer of coal, heat, and electricity in Inner Mongolia, China, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the construction of new facilities in an ongoing expansion of its heating supply capacity. “The addition of 14 new heat transfer stations to our heat supply network has greatly increased... 

Tags: China, China Energy Corporation, Electricity, Freeman Corporation Limited, heat pumping station network, heat supply network, heat transfer, Inner Mongolia, Inner Mongolia Zhunger County Heat Power Co. Ltd., investments in new technologies, market leading supplier, Zhunger County

MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures Backs Laurus Energy

MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, announced that it has backed Laurus Energy, the North American leader in Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project development. Laurus also announced today that top energy executive Rebecca McDonald has joined as CEO. “Given the huge demand for energy in the U.S. and abroad... 

Tags: Africa, Asia, BHP Billiton, BHP Billiton Limited, chemical processes, electricity distribution, energy, energy industry, Erik Straser, Management Change, MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, Michael Blinderman, Natural Gas, New Laurus, North America, Rebecca McDonald, Simon Maev, South America, United States

Big Cat Energy Announces Another CBM Operator Commences a Large Pilot Project With the Arid Tool

Big Cat Energy Corporation, announced that Continental Production Company, LLC, contract operator for an undisclosed leaseholder, will start an aggressive 49 well project in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Continental, together with the leaseholder, has designated two areas to install ARID tools for testing. These pilot wells will determine the viability... 

Tags: Aquifer Recharge, Big Cat Energy Corporation, coal bed methane production technology, Continental Production Company LLC, contract operator, United States, Wyoming

State of Illinois, FutureGen Partners Highlight Significant Progress and Unwavering Commitment to Bring Project Home to Mattoon

Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Director Jack Lavin today assembled national, state and local partners to announce new developments in the state’s effort to secure the landmark FutureGen clean energy project. The progress report included new geophysical data that confirm the suitability of the Mattoon host site to securely... 

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Hanwei signs definitive agreement to acquire CNPC’s interest in Harvest

Hanwei Energy Services Corp. announced today that it has signed a binding agreement with Daqing Changyuan Investment Co. Ltd., an indirect subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the parent company of PetroChina Co., Ltd., to acquire the remaining 8.925 percent equity interest in Daqing Harvest Longwall High Pressure Pipe Co. Ltd. (“Harvest”)... 

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SouthGobi Energy Resources Reaches 2008 Target Coal Production of One Million Tonnes Ahead of Schedule and Below Budget at Its Ovoot Tolgoi Coal Mine in Southern Mongolia

Peter Meredith, Chief Executive Officer of SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd., and Gene Wusaty, Chief Operating Officer, Coal Division, announced today that the Ovoot Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia has produced its first 1,000,000 tonnes of coal ahead of schedule and below budget. “We are very pleased to announce this coal production milestone... 

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Peabody Energy Earns ‘Award of Excellence’ and ‘Strategic Energy Investment of the Year’ at Global Energy Awards

An international panel of judges has presented Peabody Energy with dual honors at the 10th Global Energy Awards in New York City: The Award of Excellence honors Peabody’s industry leadership, and the Strategic Energy Investment of the Year recognizes Peabody’s global transformation to capitalize on high-growth, high-margin markets. The Award... 

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Thermal Energy Ships THERMALONOx(TM) Test Equipment to China for Coal-fired Power Plant Demonstration

Thermal Energy International Inc. announce that it has shipped equipment to China for demonstration-scale testing of its THERMALONOx(TM) process for reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) for power plants and other industrial sources. The equipment will be installed at Guangzhou Yuanchun Cogeneration Co., Ltd., a 50MW power plant in Guangdong province, China,... 

Tags: China, flue gas stream, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Guangzhou Yuanchun Cogeneration Co. Ltd., reaction equipment, Rob Triebe, South China University of Technology, Thermal Energy International Inc, THERMALONOx(TM) technology