The World Bank has called on Bangladesh to raise domestic natural gas prices after five years without an increase. "The administered price of domestically produced natural gas is fixed at a level considerably below that of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Domestic Prices
Indian power utilities' thermal coal imports jumped by 26.5% to 79.7 million mt in fiscal 2013-2014, compared to 63 million mt a year ago, a Central Electricity Authority official told Platts Wednesday. Of the total, 36.6 million mt of ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coal, imported coal
The proposed blending targets in the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard will likely be revised higher, advocates for multiple industries said Monday. Proponents of the ethanol, biodiesel, advanced biofuels, petrochemicals and biotechnology ...
Tags: ethanol, biodiesel, biotechnology industries
Trina Solar Limited announced two of its PV power plants in the United Kingdom have successfully completed connection to the grid. The company is an investor in and sole project developer for these projects, which have a total capacity of ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Renewable energy company Lightsource has this month invested in a ground-mounted photovoltaic power plant, which boasts a capacity of 8.4MWp, approximately 40 miles from Bristol. The solar investor struck up a deal with ET Solutions AG, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Power Plant
Brazil's Petrobras has signed a short-term contract with Bolivian counterpart YPFB to increase natural gas imports from the Andean nation, Petrobras said. Under terms of the contract, Petrobras will import an additional 2.24 million cubic ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Brazil's Petrobras, gas-fired power plant
Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (Yingli China), has entered into a framework agreement with United Photovoltaic Group Limited (United PV) for the acquisition of China-based solar PV plants ...
Tags: acquisition PV Yingli Green Energy, Lights, Lighting, Solar Plants
Suek's coal sales dipped in the first quarter as a result of a weaker domestic market, although the fall was partially offset by increased international business, Russia's largest miner of the fossil fuel said Thursday. Suek's overall ...
Tags: Domestic Market, coal sales, miner
Chinese textile firm Shandong Ruyi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Pakistan’s Punjab, under which the firm will be investing US$ 2 billion in the Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park that is being ...
Tags: Pakistan's Apparel, Ruyi Group, textile firm
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy testified today before the Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations at a hearing to discuss EPA's ...
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EU carbon dioxide allowances crashed to a nine-month low Friday, as speculators unwound long positions ahead of data due next week and expected to signal weak demand, traders said. EU Allowance futures contracts for December 2014 delivery ...
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
PPG Industries announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co., Inc., a privately-owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative ...
Pilbara Minerals ASX: PLS is heading to market with a capital raising, with the ASX granting the company a trading halt this morning. PLS shares are now in pre-open. The company recently completed its Feasibility Study on the Tabba Tabba ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) joined representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and the Los Angeles Department of ...
Tags: Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, Solar