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Suntech and Standard Solar Reach 5 Megawatt Solar Panel Supply Agreement

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and Standard Solar, Inc. are looking forward to powering cleaner energy solutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic U.S. under a new agreement by which Suntech will supply up to 5 megawatts of photovoltaic solar panels to the Maryland-based solar developer and installer during 2009.
“Partnering [...]

Nautilus Solar Announces Entry into Florida Solar Market with Three Projects

Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC announced today its entry into the Florida solar market with the acquisition and development of two distributed generation projects, as well as the development of a third greenfield utility scale project. In Gainesville, Nautilus Solar is currently constructing the Green Cove 131 kW solar photovoltaic project at the Regional Airport, and [...]

TNK-BP partners reject BP’s Rosneft olive branch

BP’s partners in Russian joint venture TNK-BP have rejected a peace proposal by the British oil major to involve them in talks on joining a disputed BP alliance with Russia’s Rosneft.
The TNK-BP board met in Paris on Saturday to consider a new proposal from BP’s representatives concerning a partnership with Rosneft, Russia’s top crude producer.
“A [...]

PECO Partners With ENERGY STAR (R) To Provide Customers With More Energy Saving Tools

PECO has formed a partnership with ENERGY STAR to provide its customers with more money saving resources through the company’s website at www.peco.com/save. A new web-based, interactive home is now available to take visitors on a tour from attic to garage that is full of energy saving tips and green information.
PECO said it’s working to [...]

Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds

Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest [...]

IFQC Ranks Top 100 Countries by Gasoline Benzene Standards; U.S. Ranks 67th

The International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) has ranked the top 100 countries based on benzene content standards in gasoline; Colombia came in first with the earliest implementation of the lowest benzene limits. Following in second and third were Canada and Luxembourg, respectively.
Benzene is found naturally in crude oil and thus passes into refined products, [...]

Frost and Sullivan: South Korean Industrial APCE Market to Earn $221 Million by 2016

As most industries, such as power plants and steel mills, in South Korea have already installed air pollution control equipment (APCE), the growth of the market is expected to be limited between 2 and 3 percent for the next five years until 2016.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.environmental.frost.com), Industrial Air Pollution Controls Market in [...]

Euro BioEnergy Holdings Acquires German Biomass Power Plant Biomasse HKW Herbrechtingen

Euro BioEnergy Holdings, a European biomass development platform, today announced the acquisition of German biomass power plant Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen GmbH from its former owners Sturm Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Fortum Power Holding B.V., and Ingenieurburo Oskar von Miller GmbH. Financial details were not disclosed.
Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen GmbH owns and operates the Herbrechtingen BioHKW [...]

Northern Ethanol forges ahead in Niagara Falls, NY

Northern Ethanol, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Ethanol, Inc., has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a 70 acre site from Praxair, Inc in Niagara Falls on which it will locate its Niagara Falls, NY ethanol plant. The property is well served by CSX Rail, St.Lawrence Seaway dockage, adjacent [...]

CME Group to Launch 18 New Natural Gas Swap Futures Contracts on ClearPort

CME Group, the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced that it will launch 18 new natural gas basis, index and swing swaps futures contracts on ClearPort®, beginning on October 19 for trade date October 20.
The new futures contracts and their commodity codes are: NGPL STX natural gas basis swap (T5); Algonquin Citygate natural [...]