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- GE gets USD400m deal for liquid gas and CCS project
- GE Oil & Gas, a division of General Electric, has secured a USD400m deal to provide equipment for a liquefied natural gas LNG and carbon capture and storage CCS project in western Australia. The Gorgon Project, a joint venture between Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell, will produce 15m tonnes a...
- Articles 2009-10-22
- GE supplies carbon capture technology to California
- GE Energy is providing its integrated gasification combined-cycle IGCC technology for a carbon capture and storage CCS project begin developed by Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto. Hydrogen Energy is developing a 390MW IGCC plant with CCS in Kern County, California. The project...
- Articles 2009-11-02
- Barratt and E.ON partner for sustainable homes
- E.ON UK is partnering with Barratt Developments to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of a residential property development in east London. The Dalston Square development in Hackney will receive energy from a local, decentralised energy centre. The centre, which will be operated by E.ON, will generate heat and power...
- Articles 2009-07-27
- Powerspan raises USD50m for carbon capture technology
- New Hampshire-based Powerspan has raised USD50m in a Series D funding round from George Soros, Tenaska Energy, AllianceBernstein and Persimmon Tree Capital. Existing investors NGEN Partners, Beacon Group, Tremont Group, RockPort Capital Partners, Calvert, Angeleno Group, Fluor and FirstEnergy also participated in the round. The firm develops carbon capture...
- Articles 2009-04-23
- E.ON and EPSRC award USD10m for CCS research
- Energy firm E.ON UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC are awarding GBP6.9m (USD10.4m) to four UK-based universities to research carbon capture and storage CCS technologies. The universities of Nottingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Leeds will lead the projects. ...
- Articles 2009-05-10
- Cathay Pacific and Dragonair buy carbon offsets
- Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific and subsidiary Dragonair are buying 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions reductions from JPMorgan Climate Care. The carbon offsets, which will be sold under the airlines’ FLY greener offset programme, are from three Chinese projects including a run-of-river hydroelectric power plant in Guizhou and a...
- Articles 2009-07-06
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- Editorial | Carbon Dioxide's Double Identity
- 'Carbon dioxide: It's what we breathe out and plants breathe in. They call it pollution; we call it life." That paradox expressed by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute is being used to counter former Vice President Al Gore's scary global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. How could a...
- Research articles 2006-06-29
- E.ON and Siemens plan CCS plant
- E.ON Kraftwerke is partnering with Siemens to develop a pilot carbon capture and storage CCS facility at E.ON’s coal-fired power plant in Grosskrotzenburg, Germany. The technology will be employed at Unit 5 of its Staudinger plant, which has a capacity of 510MW. The pilot facility is expected to...
- Articles 2009-02-19
- LS9 and P&G to develop sustainable chemicals
- San Francisco-based LS9 is partnering with Procter and Gamble (P&G) to develop and commercialise sustainable chemicals. The firm’s technology uses synthetic biology to genetically engineer microbes that can convert biomass into chemicals and fuels. P&G will use the chemicals in its consumer products. ...
- Articles 2009-05-19
- SpectraSensors raises USD6m for gas analysers
- Houston-based SpectraSensors has raised USD6m in funding from Blueprint Ventures, Nth Power, American River Ventures, Nomura Private Equity Investment and Chevron Technology Ventures. The firm develops optical laser-based sensors for measuring levels of moisture, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide in the air. by Editorial
- Articles 2009-05-25
- Energy Roundup: Rocky Iraq Oil Auction, BG Jumps Into U.S. Shale, Top 10 Green Cities, and More
- BP, CNPC scores only contract in Iraq oil auction -- Foreign companies bidding on Iraq oil contracts have shied away from the narrow terms and low price the government is willing to pay for their services. Only one of the eight contracts has been secured. BP and China's CNPC beat out...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Market structure no longer fits the bill
- Just as he has done in the financial services industry, Lord Turner is challenging free-market orthodoxy as it applies to energy policy. Britain has one of the most liberalised energy markets in the world, with no controls on wholesale or retail prices, and a large number of competing suppliers. Lord...
- News items 2009-10-11
- Global warming 'a human problem'
- Although the measure of humans' impact on global warming isn't precisely known, scientific evidence makes it abundantly clear that human activity is the main cause of warming over the past several decades ("Heated debate," Editorial, Thursday). Natural drivers of climate simply cannot account for the recent dramatic increase in...
- Research articles 2006-08-09
- Daimler sells part of Tesla stake
- Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments is paying an undisclosed sum to acquire 40% of Daimler’s stake in electric vehicle EV firm Tesla. Daimler, which invested in Tesla in May, will retain a 6% stake in the company. In March, state-owned investment...
- Articles 2009-07-13
- Geoengineering: From Crackpot Theorizing to Excuse Du Jour
- Governments across the world have promised to reduce their emissions -- yet failed to actually do so. Majorities of their populations are opposed to spending much time or money combating climate change. Is it time to muster up more political will? Not if there's any alternative. And that alternative's name,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
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