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Chevron Using Solar-Thermal Steam at Enhanced Oil Recovery Plant
Chevron Corp. (CVX), the second-largest U.S. oil company, began extracting crude from a southern California field using steam produced by a 29-megawatt solar- thermal power plant. BrightSource Energy Inc.’s system... Read more »
Nordic Windpower May Withdraw Bid for ‘Uncertain’ Loan Guarantee
Nordic Windpower Ltd., a manufacturer of two-blade wind turbines, may drop out of a U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee program, citing delays in the process. The company received a conditional... Read more »
BP to Build 419-Megawatt Wind Farm in Kansas With GE Turbines
BP Plc (BP/) will build a 419-megawatt wind farm in Kansas. The Flat Ridge 2 project will have 262 General Electric Co. (GE) 1.6-megawatt turbines and is expected to go... Read more »
Novozymes to Produce Cheap Ethanol in Brazil From Cane Waste
Novozymes A/S, the world’s biggest maker of industrial enzymes, will build a facility in Brazil that it says will be able to produce ethanol from sugar-cane waste that’s cheaper than... Read more »
Airlines Will Try, Probably Fail to Pass on Carbon Costs, IATA Says
Airlines will try to pass on the costs of European Union carbon allowances to customers and probably fail because there is so much price competition in the industry, said the... Read more »
Record Projects Test UN CO2 Market Capacity as Future in Doubt
A record inflow of projects into the world’s biggest greenhouse gas market threatens to swamp auditors who validate these activities, and they may be forced to reject business, said an... Read more »
Iberia Flies Spain’s First Commercial Flight Using Plant-Fuel
The Spanish airline Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA today flew the country’s first commercial flight, on an Airbus A320 from Madrid to Barcelona using a blend of fuel made... Read more »
SunPower to Revise Forecast on ‘Challenging Market Conditions’
SunPower Corp. (SPWRA), a solar panel company majority-owned by Total SA (FP), will revise its forecast for the year due to “challenging market conditions.” The company didn’t say how it... Read more »
Hurricane Ophelia Weakening on Approach to Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula
Ophelia weakened to a low-grade hurricane in the North Atlantic today as it is neared the Avalon peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland, the National Hurricane Center said. Ophelia, 185 miles (295... Read more »
Martifer to Sell Wind Power Parks in Poland for 87 Million Euros
Martifer SGPS SA (MAR), a Portuguese manufacturer of metal structures, said it agreed to sell wind farm projects in Poland to the Ikea Group for 87 million euros ($116 million).... Read more »