California-based electric-car startup Faraday Future is planning to invest $1bn towards a manufacturing facility in the US to make its first range of electric cars. Faraday Future has not announced the exact location of the proposed ...
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The lighting industry has been steadily developing over the last two decades, with China becoming one of the largest manufacturing base and consumer market. According to data compiled by Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) lighting ...
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Switzerland-based PET products developer Sidel has launched a new PET blowing solution, which will replace hot oil with electrical heat resistance (eHR) to heat the mould for the PET bottle body. The new Sidel Matrix blower eHR creates ...
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US benzene and toluene markets rose to two-month highs Tuesday to $2.35/gal ($703/mt) FOB US Gulf Coast and $2.25/gal ($684/mt) FOB USG, respectively. Sources attributed gains in both markets to stronger energy as NYMEX December crude ...
Asian propylene term contract discussions for 2016 are likely to conclude at larger discounts than this year due to an increase in supply in the region, market sources said this week. A source at a producer in South Korea estimated the ...
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Foresight Energy is slowly moving forward to return its idled Deer Run thermal coal longwall mine in Illinois to operation, although officials still did not know Thursday exactly when that return might occur. Mine rescue teams have ...
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Nasdaq Commodities, the Oslo-based operator of the Nordic power derivatives market, said Tuesday that the positive momentum for its German power offering continued with a new monthly record in October. Total traded and cleared volumes for ...
Spain's Gas Natural Fenosa expects to obtain some early quantities of LNG from the US Sabine Pass LNG terminal during 2016, according to company CEO Rafael Villaseca. The company, which has a 4.8 Bcm/year contract starting in 2017, said ...
A local UK council has validated the application for a proposed IGas project to drill two exploratory wells in order to evaluate geology and assess potential shale gas recovery, IGas announced in a statement Friday. Nottinghamshire County ...
NYMEX December natural gas futures settled 10.2 cents higher at $2.364/MMBtu Thursday on the back of a bullish storage report. The US Energy Information Administration announced a 52-Bcf storage injection for the week ended October 30, ...
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State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, (Adnoc) is seeking to cut 25% off its operating and capital spending, a senior official at the company was quoted as saying Thursday. "...we are trying to bring down operating expenditures and also ...
There will be 7.5 million smart meters installed in Japan, including replacement of conventional electric meters, in 2015, hiking 104.9% on year, according to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI). Japan will liberalize ...
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Solar cell maker Gintech Energy has signed with Portugal-based Martifer Solar and MPrime Solar for exclusive sales agent rights for Gintech-produced PV modules in France, Portugal and Italy each. Martifer Solar is a PV EPC (engineering, ...
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The availability of energy usage data and the creation of software platforms with data analytics have recently given way to new forms of analytical demand-side management (DSM). Behavioral and analytical DSM, which focus on consumer ...
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The China government has drawn up tentative feed-in tariff rates for on-grid PV power-generating stations and distributed PV systems as well as land-based wind power-generating farms during the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020), with ...
Tags: China, PV, Wind, wind power