Major Public Transit Agencies in San Diego, Las Vegas and Phoenix Significantly Expand Bus Fleets Powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)

Public transit agencies in San Diego, CA, Las Vegas, NV and Phoenix, AZ have undertaken major expansions of their compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered bus fleets. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq:CLNE) currently contracts for CNG fueling services with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, the Phoenix Regional Public Transportation Authority (RPTA)... 

Avista Re-Files in Oregon for Lower Annual Natural Gas Adjustment

Avista has re-filed a request with the Public Utility Commission of Oregon to decrease the company’s annual purchase gas cost adjustment (PGA) effective Nov. 1, 2008. If approved by the commission, a residential customer using an average of 53 therms of natural gas per month would see their monthly bill decrease by $3.28, or 4.1 percent, for a... 

Eastern Kentucky University Energy Efficiency Project Grows to $27 Million After Siemens Building Technologies Identifies New Savings Opportunities

Eastern Kentucky University will be reducing its carbon impact and its energy bill even more than it anticipated last spring when the school announced plans to team with Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., and embark on a comprehensive program designed to boost the energy efficiency of facilities campus wide. After Siemens completed its energy audit... 

Terasen Gas receives BCUC approval to lower natural gas commodity rates

Terasen Gas has received approval from the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) to lower natural gas commodity rates for the majority of customers in B.C. The rate decreases will take effect October 1, 2008. “In response to changing market prices since our rate filings with the BCUC last week, we have updated our applications, requesting lower commodity... 

Nexterra Receives Order from Johnson Controls for a Multi-million Dollar Biomass Gasification System at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nexterra Energy Corp. announced that it has received an order from Johnson Controls Inc. for a multi-million dollar biomass gasification system at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Nexterra biomass gasification system is the cornerstone of an $89 million contract for Johnson... 

Terasen Gas applies to lower natural gas rates

Terasen Gas has now filed applications to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) to reduce its natural gas commodity rates for customers in most regions of B.C. If the applications are approved, commodity rate decreases will take effect October 1, 2008. “We are pleased market conditions have changed allowing us to apply for lower customer... 

Constellation Energy Serves up Wind Power for the 2008 US Open

Constellation Energy announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy (CNE), is helping to turn the court green at the 2008 US Open in Flushing, N.Y. CNE will supply an estimated 2,000 Green-e certified wind Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to match the electricity consumption at the USTA Billie... 

Nexterra Biomass Gasification Ready to Displace Fossil Fuels in Lime Kilns and Boilers

After two years of biomass gasification testing at the company’s Product Development Centre in Kamloops, BC, Nexterra Energy Corp. has confirmed that renewable synthesis gas, or “syngas”, produced by its gasifier has the ability to displace at least 60 per cent of fossil fuels used in lime kilns. Depending on the biomass feedstock... 

China Domestic Production of Dimethyl Ether is Expected to Reach 4.36 Million Tons in 2008 and 7.84 Million Tons in 2009 and 14.84 Million Tons in 2010

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Development of China’s Coal-based Alcohol Ether Energy 2008” report to their offering. China’s current energy resources are typified by a huge resource of coal, but a shortage of gas and oil. The total reserves of petroleum and natural gas amounted to 15.5 billion barrels...