The US fuel oil hi-lo, the spread between US Atlantic Coast 1%S fuel oil and US Gulf Coast 3%S fuel oil, fell below $1/b Thursday for the first time since October on an expected lack of demand for power generation. Platts assessed USAC ...
Demand for natural gas and therefore liquefied natural gas from Chile's power industry collapsed in November following a sharp increase in the availability of cheap hydroelectricity after a wet winter and spring, energy ministry data show. ...
Tags: natural gas, electricity, fuel
Electricity will be available in all ethnic regions of southwest China's Sichuan Province by the end of December, Sichuan Energy Administration announced Wednesday. With the country's largest Yi ethnic region and second largest Tibetan ...
Tags: Electricity, rural power
The amount of natural gas used by UK power stations to generate electricity neared an 11-month high Monday as unfavorable weather conditions for renewable generation technologies led to higher gas-fired generation, figures from the National ...
Gloucester City located in Massachusetts, U.S. will be upgrading its streetlights to warm 3,000K LED lights, reported Gloucester Times. The city’s Department of Community Development drew 50 to 55 responses from residents to decide ...
Tags: LED Streetlights, LED lights, White Lights
German day-ahead baseload power prices dropped below Eur30/MWh Thursday as wind power output was forecast to rise above 20 GW ahead of calmer weather conditions, which lifted contracts further out, a source said. Baseload power for ...
Tags: nuclear, lignite, coal-fired power
Locational marginal prices for November in New York were the lowest since the New York Independent System Operator began managing the transmission grid in 1999, Rana Mukerji, senior vice president of market structures, said Wednesday during ...
Tags: natural gas, Power Prices
The grid operators of Spain and France, Red Electrica de Espana (REE) and Reseau de Transport d'Electricite (RTE), have assigned cross-border capacity for full-year 2016, REE said in a note Friday. Following an expansion of cross-border ...
Spurred by major and emerging markets, global photovoltaic (PV) demand has grown substantially this year. According to the latest Gold Member Report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, installed capacity worldwide for 2015 is ...
Tags: PV power, PV industry
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting and the City of San Jose officially announced a project to pilot 50 Philips SmartPoles, which bring together energy efficient LED lighting and fully integrated 4G LTE wireless technology by ...
Tags: Philips, Smart Streetlights, LED luminaires
Cal-Comp, a subsidiary of New Kinpo Group (NKG), and a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, is to expand its presence in South America, by opening a new factory and adding a new plastic injection production line ...
Tags: Cal-Comp, Plastic Injection
China released documents on Monday on electricity sector reforms covering everything from pricing to setting up a national electricity futures market. The new pricing system, which was piloted in Shenzhen and Inner Mongolia early this ...
Tags: power grid, electricity system
Ukraine is seeking extra imports of anthracite coal from South Africa and other sources on looming shortages after supplies from Russia and territories controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk regions were suspended, ...
Tags: Coal, anthracite, natural gas
Germany has added 81 MW of new solar PV capacity in October, bringing total installed solar PV capacity registered for funding to 39.484 GW, the latest monthly data from the federal grid regulator BNetzA shows. Annual solar growth is set to ...
Tags: solar PV, EEG, electricity market
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