Energy

American energy company AES is intentionally protracting its project for building a solar power plant near Silistra, because it wants changes introduced in Bulgaria's law on renewable energy, said Minister of Energy Traicho Traikov.

Dart Energy is will start trading on the Aust stock exchange on Thursday on a deferred settlement basis.

CH Energy Group Inc. said on Friday that it earned $6.8 million in the second quarter after posting a loss a year earlier, after its Central Hudson unit received permission to raise rates.

Energy stocks fall back with the broader market as slower-than-expected growth in U.S. gross domestic product knock the air out of equities. Chevron's blue-chip shares give ground following quarterly results.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Energy stocks fell back with the broad market on Friday after worst-than-expected figures on U.S. gross domestic product knocked the air out of equities. The NYSE Arca Oil Index fell 0.9% to 969. The NYSE Arca Natural Gas Index dropped 1% to 512. The Philadelphia Oil Service Index subtracted 1.8% to 179. Chevron fell 1.2% to $75.14 after its second quarter earnings beat ...

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The Government's first annual energy statement, published on Tuesday, provides a useful snapshot of the scale of activity we can expect as the Coalition looks to scope and implement its energy and climate change policies.

Another week on and there has been no further leak from the BP Macondo well. Officials are now "optimistic" about preparations for a new attempt at a, with the initial step of pumping mud into the top of the well likely to begin as soon as Sunday. With the leak apparently under control, BP chose this week to announce the inevitable departure of its CEO Tony Hayward, whose replacement by the American Bob Dudley was vital for the company’s damage limitation efforts in the US...

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What kind of life do you want, and what are you willing to do to get it? Keith Farnish, author of Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis, sees industrial civilization as the most destructive way of living yet devised by humans. And it's over: environmental degradation and depletion tell us it can't continue. The system has myriad ways to make us believe we can't live without it. But Keith believes we can - there are countless ways to move forward into contented, happy, and full lives. We can "disengage" and reconnect with the natural world, ourselves, and others.

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Energy Resources Of Australia 1st Half Profit Tumbles 82%

Energy Resources Of Australia 1st Half Profit Down 82% To A$22.7 Million

Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. reported first-half net income of A$22.7 million. The company cut its 2010 uranium oxide output guidance to between 4,300 tons and 4,700 tons from expectation it would be broadly similar 2009s 5,240 tons.

WASHINGTON Renewable energy advocates are pushing Congress to include a renewable electricity standard in a climate bill that was proposed Tuesday in the Senate, and the idea got a boost this week when 27 Democrats and a Republican pressed for its inclusion.

Energy-saving improvements save schools money.

Energy Stocks Up On Earnings Parade, Equity Gains

Energy stocks rose on Thursday after Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell led an earnings parade in the sector, while the broad equities market rose on better-than-expected weekly jobless claims.

The Energy Department said Thursday that First Philippine Industrial Corp. (FPIC) has nothing to do with the gas leak at West Tower Condominium in Makati City.

In 1972, the now-classic book Limits to Growth explored the consequences for Earth’s ecosystems of exponential growth in population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion. That book, which still stands as the best-selling environmental title ever published, reported on the first attempts to use computers to model the likely interactions between trends in resources, consumption, and population. It summarized the first major scientific study to question the assumption that economic growth can and will continue more or less uninterrupted into the foreseeable future.

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Energy Development Corp., the Philippines largest producer of geothermal energy, said it plans to boost generating capacity by 38 percent from 1,116 megawatts to 1,542 megawatts in five years starting 2011. It issued a statement in Manila before the company annual meeting.

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