Unless stated otherwise, all prices are for the close of March 9.
Brent crude oil futures: US$79.95/bbl, up 0.1 per cent, as of GMT 9:30, March 10
WTI crude oil futures: US$81.46/bbl, up 0.2 per cent, as of GMT 9:30, March 10
German power: €45.93/MWh, down 1.01 per cent
Coal: €89.65/t, down 0.77 per cent
Natural gas: GB 29.55p/therm, down …
First Solar Inc announced on March 9, that it has signed a power purchase agreement to supply Pacific Gas and Electric Company with renewable electricity from a 300MW utility-scale photovoltaic solar power facility that it is developing in Southern California.
The Desert Sunlight project, to be located near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County, will have …
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has released its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook for March. Here are the edited highlights:
Although spot crude oil prices continue to fluctuate on a daily basis, EIA’s projections for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil spot prices have remained relatively stable over the last four outlook reports. EIA expects WTI …
The spot price for uranium oxide noted a modest advance of 25 cents to US$40.75/lb on March 8. European conversion rates remained unchanged at US$8.00/kgU while North American rates slipped by US$0.25 to US$41.75/kgU, according to UxConsulting
Month-end spot prices on February 22 stood 75 cents lower at US$41.75/lb. TradeTech reports a total of 15 transactions …
Around 26,000 potential sites for hydropower installations across England and Wales, enough to meet three per cent of the country’s 2020 renewable target, have literally been put on the map. The new map can be found at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/shell/hydropowerswf.html
While the Environment Agency, which commissioned Entec UK to produce the map, conceded that not all sites are …
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed to lend US$943m to two independent power projects in Indonesia.
The Bank has signed an agreement to loan US$729m to PT Paiton Energy for an 815MW expansion of a coal-fired project in East Java costing around US$1.5bn. Paiton currently runs a 1230MW coal-fired plant and has US$486m …
Acciona Energy’s Mexican subsidiary is to build the wind farms in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, with a combined capacity of 304.2MW. The projects represent a combined investment of US$600m and are expected to commence operations in 2011. Acciona won the international tender for the construction of the wind farms via offering a generation …
According to Lisa Jackson, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Obama administration has no plans to set up a cap and trade scheme for CO2 emissions under existing law.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, she said that some people are “over reading” EPA’s budget request for the 2011 fiscal …
Uzi Landau, Israel’s infrastructure minister has told delegates at a nuclear conference in Paris today that his country is looking to build nuclear power plants in cooperation with its Arab neighbours. He explained that any such plants would be subject to strict safety and security controls and that “Israel has always considered nuclear power to …
Drax, the owner and operator of the UK’s largest coal-fired power station has announced that has started feasibility studies into the use of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) after joining talks with the regional development agency to help develop its GBP2bn carbon cluster project. This would involve the creation of a network of major industrial …
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