UK natural gas prices for same-day delivery spiked as high as 150 pence/therm ($22.80/MMBtu) early Friday as a key pipeline that carries gas to the country from Continental Europe halted operations against a backdrop of cold weather and low ...
Tags: Gas Market, Interconnector Outage, Chemicals
Leeds City Council is asking residents to take part in a consultation concerning their feelings about switching off certain streetlights in a bid to save money. This move is very typical of city and county councils across the country, ...
Tags: Leeds, Lighting, Switch-off Light
The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.6 percent in February after increasing 1 percent in January (the 1 percent gain in January was revised down from a 2.4 percent increase ATA ...
Tags: Trucking Associations, truck tonnage, ATA
In the beginning of 2012, the South Korea government adopted the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy. Due to falling prices of related equipment, firms have been participating eagerly. South Korea-based industry sources estimate that ...
Tags: solar installation, solar, PV system
The American population's voracious appetite for digitized information and ccontinues unabated, creating a groundswell of consumers who move seamlessly between smartphones, tablets and laptops to consume digital content, often using ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
The number of teenagers in the U.S. using smartphones has risen sharply, with half of them accessing the Internet mainly through the device, according to a recent study. 78% of teens in the U.S. have a cellphone, a figure that has ...
In the January-February period of this year, China's total fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 2.5676 trillion ($409 billion), up 21.2 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's ...
Tags: fixed asset investments, fixed asset, asset investments
The necessity of having nuclear power plants has been under debate recently in Taiwan. Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Gigastorage has suggested four ways that the government can take to address the country's energy issues: increase solar ...
Tags: Gigastorage, Taiwan Government, Solar Installation Limit
In our exclusive 93-page report Consumer Buying Trends, Furniture Today presents the most detailed information available on consumer furniture shopping and buying plans, including specific data for 22 home furnishings products--bedding, ...
Tags: Consumer Buying Trends, bedding, master bedroom, adult bedroom
On the 28 February 2012, At-Bristol switched on the biggest solar panel system in central Bristol. A total of 208 individual panels were fitted on the science centre’s roof measuring an area approximately the size of two tennis courts ...
The Solar Building Company Ltd (SBC) has reached an agreement to sell the project rights for a photovoltaic development in the south of England to S.A.G. Solarstrom AG, a leading European EPC contractor and service provider. SBC initially ...
Tags: Solar Building
Residents at The Rose Garden Extracare village in Hereford are set to make significant energy savings, thanks to an 80-kilowatt solar energy system installed by Eco2Solar. The major investment by Festival Housing, owners of The Rose ...
Tags: Festival Housing, Eco2Solar, Energy
The chief executive officer (CEO) of Philips lighting in North America Greg Sebasky has said he believes that consumer attitudes towards lighting are changing, as they now see it as "a durable good". However, it would appear that ...
Tags: CEO, Philips lighting, lighting
The Green Inventors Competition, part of the Sustainable Living Festival, invites RMIT students and recent graduates to present their ideas for a sustainable future. Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) graduate Ms McDonell won the ...
Tags: RMIT students, Green Inventors Competition, sustainable future
Abstract: Solar terms originated in China. A solar term is any of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon. Lichun refers to the spring and new ...
Tags: Lichun, solar term, spring