The volume of rare earth minerals legally exported from China for the first half of 2012 plunged by 42.7% year-on-year to hit 4,908 tonnes according to statistics from China's customs authorities. According to the US edition of the China ...
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Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong announced on Tuesday that they have shut down nine rare earth mines operating illegally in Longchuan county over the past six months. According to a Xinhua news report, police in Heyuan ...
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ArcelorMittal unveiled a new energy recovery and reuse boiler at its East Chicago facility on Monday which recycles waste gas generated through the ironmaking process and uses it to generate electricity to help power the plant. The US ...
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Less than a year after acquiring it Sony Electronics Inc in December 2011,Soitec of Bernin,France has opened its North American concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)module manufacturing facility in San Diego after completing on schedule an ...
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More tenants of Newark and Sherwood Homes are set to benefit from free electricity during daylight hours, as the organisation has decided to reinvest in another 135 solar PV installations across the district. The work will be carried out by ...
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Gulf News the UAE Russian Federation peaceful nuclear energy agreement, which was signed on December 17th Monday at the foreign ministry is deemed a legal framework for supplying nuclear fuel services to the UAE and in line with the ...
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DECC has decided to reduce support for solar power under the Renewables Obligation from 2 ROCs today to 1.6 ROCs from April 2013 – a reduction of 20%. This is higher than the level of 1.5 ROCs which was initially proposed. The STA ...
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An agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world's leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas, renewable energy and power sectors, and ...
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Business Line reported that India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd awaits final nod to launch the credit enhancement scheme next month. It is also seeking a bigger role in lending to the country's renewable energy sector. Mr Harsh Kumar ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier K.K. (a subsidiary of Japanese energy business Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.) – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules - and Iberdrola Ingenieria & ...
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Microsoft has wasted thousands of pounds worth of electricity at its Redmond Quincy datacentre to avoid a $210,000 (129,000) penalty for underuse from its energy provider, according to the New York Times. According to the report, ...
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When the blades started spinning on SC Johnson's two new wind turbines, the company's Waxdale manufacturing facility began to further minimize its dependence on fossil fuels. The addition of the turbines means that products made and ...
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Ben Whittle, our Project Engineer, has set up a live feed of the Leominster Solar Co-op PV installation Ben Whittle, Project Engineer at Greenearth Energy and a founding member of the Leominster Solar Co-op, has helped launch a live feed ...
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First Solar announced that it is to construct four solar power plants that will be able to generate a combined 20 MW of AC power for PNM Resources Incorporated. They will be able to power up to 6,700 homes. These new solar projects are in ...
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Search engine giant Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project to power its Oklahoma datacentre. The collaboration is part of Google's ...
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