en.lighten to Host Global Efficient Lighting Forum The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) en.lighten initiative, in collaboration with the City of Guangzhou, China, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the UNEP Global ...
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China's commercial crude oil stocks fell 3.6% at the end of December from a month earlier, according to China Petroleum Stockpile Statistics compiled by state news agency Xinhua and released on Monday. The fall in stocks was due to ...
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BP on Wednesday raised its estimate of global energy demand in 2030 and predicted that shale natural gas, tight oil and biofuels will play an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. World energy demand will ...
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LEDs would usurp traditional efficient light bulbs based on the prediction for LED market share, policies to phase out incandescent bulbs as well as overall environmental performance. Market share According to a US Department of Energy ...
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Global thirst for oil will be slightly stronger than expected in the last quarter of 2012 because of demand from China and despite a sharp cutback in Europe recently. The IEA forecast that the growth of demand next year is expected to be ...
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The West's energy agency said that Global oil demand will be sluggish throughout 2013 as economic expansion remains tepid also predicting comfortable oil supply levels which could alleviate oil price pressures on consumers. The ...
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Reuters cited Mr Rostam Qasemi Oil Minister as saying that western sanctions on Iran's shipping and energy sectors caused serious problems for its oil industry earlier this year but Iran has mostly overcome those challenges. Iranian ...
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Iran is the world's 14th leading electricity producer, Mr Mohammad Behzad deputy energy minister of Iranian said that the latest statistics released by the International Energy Agency. Mr Behzad said that Iran has risen two places since ...
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Coal's share of the energy mix will continue to rise, with global consumption projected to reach 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe) by 2017 despite the fossil fuel's slowing growth rate, according to the International Energy Agency ...
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Houses and buildings started out using cut timber from real forests. Time passed, the population grew and humans determined that it wasn’t such a good idea to use all of our natural resources. We need something stronger and more Earth ...
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Reuters reported that energy over metals, raw over refined, sums up the likely theme for China's commodity demand next year. Commodity markets had become accustomed to China as a voracious consumer of resources, but 2012 showed that ...
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It goes without saying that China has proven it is a true heavyweight global contender. The herculean growth achieved by China over the past two decades is unprecedented in the annals of human history. China has overtaken Japan to become ...
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AFP reported that OPEC will likely cut its oil production next year as prices risk falling in reaction to higher output from top crude consumer the United States and amid a slowing of energy demand growth. The Organization of Petroleum ...
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European gas markets have lost over 10 years of growth, with demand back to the levels of the 1990s, Professor Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies told the UK House of Lords EU energy subcommittee Wednesday. He ...
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NYMEX January crude futures settled 98 cents higher at $86.77/barrel Wednesday, as the entire oil complex received a boost from the US Federal Reserve's move to continue its quantitative easing program to stimulate the economy. January ...
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