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- Qteros, Applied CleanTech to Harness Power of Poo to Make Ethanol
- Qteros and Applied CleanTech are giving new life to municipal wastewater solids -- a cleaned up term for what most of us call poo -- by turning it into fuel for cars. Yes, poo-powered cars may be in our future. That future may still be a ways...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Energy Roundup: Oil Lobby Jumps 30%, Nissan's Electric Car, Cleantech VC Funding Spikes, and More
- Oil-and-gas companies boosts lobbying efforts -- Even the "inside the beltway" lobbying machine could not escape the global recession and credit crunch. Overall, the amount of money spent to lobby Congress and the Obama administration fell 1 percent to $814.6 million in the second quarter. There were a couple of exceptions, notably...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Energy Roundup: Centrica Buys BE Stake, Cleantech VC Funding Tumbles, Chevron's PR Offensive, and More
- Centrica buys 20 percent stake in nuclear company British Energy -- UK utility Centrica boosted its investment in nuclear power with its purchase of a 20 percent stake in EDF's nuclear unit British Energy. Centrica benefited greatly in this discounted deal by paying 6 percent less than the price paid by...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
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- Energy Roundup: Green Mobile Technology, Antarctica's Carbon-Free Base, and More
- Green technology star of cell phone industry show-- Solar panel cell phones, eco-friendly packaging and energy efficient chargers will be among the latest green technology applications featured this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. A number of products have been unveiled at the industry show, which kicked off...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Deutsche Bank's Carbon Counter and the Business of Greenhouse Gases
- Deutsche Bank's ginormous "Carbon Counter" -- unveiled Thursday in New York City -- is the type of in-your-face campaign passers-by will find nearly impossible to ignore. The towering electronic billboard -- with its 13-number red digital display and 'Climate Change Affects Everyone' message perched on top --...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Energy Roundup: BP Drops Jatropha, Wal-Mart Eco Index, Climate Debate Fireworks and More
- BP leaves D1 Oils Jatropha biofuels venture -- D1 Oils has reached an agreement to buy BP's50 percent interest in D1-BP Fuel Crops Limited, a joint venture to plant Jatropha. Signs of BP's exit have been on the horizon since last month and will allow D1 to join its planting and...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- EIA: Energy Prices Inch Up in Early Years of Cap-and-Trade
- The Energy Information Administration threw its hat into the climate bill analysis ring this week -- adding to the list of studies that have tried to determine what cap-and-trade legislation will cost for the average U.S. household. What they found was similar to other recent reports: price increases will inch up modestly...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Nukes, Coal and the National Security Argument
- When the standard let's-save-the-environment argument failed to motivate Congress members to pick up the climate change legislation flag, advocates turned to the economy and job creation. Now a bipartisan group of former Congressmen and U.S. foreign policy leaders -- with resumes tough to ignore -- is pushing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Energy Roundup: FutureGen Has a Future, Silver Springs Snags Cisco Exec, Tesla Co-Founder Sues, and More
- U.S. restarts FutureGen clean coal project -- The Department of Energy breathed new life into FutureGen, a coal-fired plant project that aims to capture 60 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground. The DOE will provide $1 billion in economic stimulus funds towards the controversial project derailed by the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Energy Roundup: CO2 Giveaways Hit 69%, Baghdad's Oil Fee Decree, PetroAlgae's Investor Letter, and More
- Climate bill compromises mean more carbon emissions allowances -- A large chunk of carbon emissions permits would be given away -- not sold as Obama wanted -- to utilities, natural-gas companies, the auto industry and refiners, under a plan released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In 2012, the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Energy Roundup: China Ups Acquisition Ante, Q-Cells Axes 500 Jobs, Chevron's New Toy, and More
- China's insatiable energy resource appetite --Â China's hunger for energy resources has boosted its spending on oil and mining acquisitions by at least half this year, despite growing concern and opposition in the U.S. and Australia. If China National Petroleum buys Repsol YPF's Argentine unit, the country's purchase of overseas...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Week in Oil & Gas: Discovery Hot Spots, Nat Gas' $80M Advocacy Campaign and One Big LNG Project
- It wouldn't be a worthwhile week in the oil and gas industry without a few discoveries. And my, there were some goodies. The hot spots this week were in the ultra deep waters offshore Brazil, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and Uganda. And Spanish energy company Repsol YPF found...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Week in Oil & Gas: G20 Axes Subsidies, Obama-Hu Climate Rhetoric, and Chevron Sues
- The week ended with a muffled bang as the Group of 20 nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for fossil fuels. Ending fossil fuel subsidies would have an impact -- positive or negative, depending on whose talking.  But the agreement is viewed largely symbolic since G20 leaders did...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Climate Change Bill Passes on Razor-Thin Margin, Tougher Battle Lies Ahead
- Maybe it was Al Gore's effort via telephone or Nancy Pelosi's chocolate-covered Dove bars. Heck, maybe it was all of those last minute concessions to please lawmakers in farm states. After weeks of negotiations and compromises and nearly seven hours of debate on the House floor, the American Clean Energy Act,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Venture Capitalist to Steer DOE's Energy Loan Program
- The Department of Energy has billions in loan guarantees to hand out to alternative energy firms and automakers. But the highly competitive process has been criticized as slow, unmoving even. What is a government agency to do? Hire a venture capitalist, of course. The DOE...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Exxon Dips Toe in Electric Car Market
- ExxonMobil generally doesn't evoke the kind of "green" images typically associated with the electric car industry. It is afterall, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, and a conservative one at that. The energy giant tends to stick with what it's good at: making money finding, producing and selling fossil...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Cash for Clunkers Pilfers Renewable Energy Loan Program
- Cash for clunkers, the popular federal car trade-in program that ripped through $1 billion in a less than a month, has been extended thanks to money pilfered from a different stimulus fund that provides loan guarantees to clean energy projects. The Senate approved Thursday night extending the clunkers program by providing another $2 billion,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Green Shoots Hint at Recovery of Renewable Energy Investment
- Investment in the global renewable energy industry slowed considerably in 2008 and went into a freefall in the first quarter of 2009. But a recent study by New Energy Finance reveals a few green shoots of recovery have begun to appear. The 2009 Global Trends in Sustainable...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Canada Starts Doling Out Carbon Capture Dollars
- It seems like it was just yesterday that fellow BNET Energy blogger Chris Morrison wrote about the escalation of political rhetoric calling for carbon capture and storage projects. In fact, it was two days ago. The International Energy Agency has called for a rapid deployment of the technology...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
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