Dun & Bradstreet’s latest Business Expectations Survey indicates a fairly subdued outlook for the first quarter of 2016, as results continue to fall short of expectations. As the new year approaches, businesses are reporting lowered ...
Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...
Tags: natural gas, Coal Generation
French prompt power prices fell Thursday after demand forecasts for Friday and into next week were revised lower amid an expected increase in wind generation in France and Germany, sources said. Friday baseload was last heard trading at ...
Tags: power prices, Gas, coal
UK day-ahead power prices were mixed on Tuesday, moving in opposite directions for the second consecutive day this week, as healthy wind supply and weak NBP spot market offset bullish influence of rising demand. At the Platts 1100 GMT, ...
Tags: gas-fired power, coal-fired power, NBP gas
An Electric Reliability Council of Texas report released Tuesday shows the independent system operator expects the supply of electricity to be tighter in summer 2016 than it did in the May version of the report. ERCOT's Capacity, Demand ...
Tags: ERCOT, wind power, solar, CDR
The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract rebounded Monday from Friday's selloff to settle at $2.235/MMBtu, up 2.3 cents. The January contract dropped 8.7 cents Friday to settle at $2.212/MMBtu on the contract's first day in the ...
Tags: Gas, natural gas market, weather
Dutch and German gas spot prices lacked direction on the first day of the month Tuesday, with the Dutch day-head TTF losing ground, and the German equivalent ticking up. By midday London time, TTF day-ahead last dealt 25 euro cent lower ...
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UK day-ahead power prices fell sharply Tuesday, extending Monday's losses as steady demand amid mild weather conditions and stable wind power forecasts weakened the prompt market. Baseload power for Wednesday delivery was last heard ...
Tags: power prices, fuel, Didcot B gas
Thailand's state-owned buyer PTT has deferred the delivery of a tendered LNG cargo until early December because of low downstream consumption, an informed source said Tuesday. PTT bought two cargoes above $6.50/MMBtu from two separate ...
The sluggish growth of the mono-Si market this year is notable given the fact that many cell manufacturers had switched from multi-Si to mono-Si production in the second half of 2014. Statistical research conducted by EnergyTrend for the ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, mono-Si cell
In terms of ethanol production, corn has some competition this winter— grain sorghum. The grain, also known as milo, produces the same amount of ethanol per bushel, but uses one third less water in the process of creating the fuel. It ...
The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) market was $0.19bn in 2013 and is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.3% from 2015 to $1.3bn in 2022, according to the new market report 'Photonic IC Market - Global ...
The global xEVs (x-electric vehicles) market has performed impressively this year mainly because of the Chinese market, which has expanded due to strong government support. EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, estimates that xEV sales in ...
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Fonterra has increased its forecast earnings for the 2015 financial year. The co-operative is now expecting to pay farmers $4.95-5.00 per kg of milk solids. Chairman John Wilson said performance between the 1 August – 31 October ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) says that, following the field trial of the Multifunction ...
Tags: M/A-COM, SPAR Tiles, MPAR radar system