The Washington state Department of Ecology fined Energy Northwest $120,000 for improperly handling chemical and hazardous waste at the state’s only nuclear power plant.Ecology and the federal Environmental Protection Agency conducted a six-week inspection at the Columbia Generating Station and an industrial development site operated by Energy Northwest, a public power consortium based in Richland.
Since Google.org launched the RechargeIT initiative in June as part of our efforts to stop global warming, a lot has happened in the world of plug-in vehicles. Automakers have made key announcements about future plans for plug-ins. Our grantee, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), released a comprehensive [...]
WWF advocates solutions that address the root cause of climate change. The burning of fossil fuels-coal, oil and gas-releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere where carbon pollution blankets the earth, traps in heat, and causes global warming. To protect our living planet, WWF continues to push for major reductions in CO2 emissions and increases in [...]
Those units that are especially energy-efficient–based on standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DoE)–receive an Energy Star, signifying them as preferred environmental choices. Clearly the program is designed as an incentive for competing brands to lower their products? energy consumption and costs over time. The program is very [...]
The four groups are led by Energias de Portugal (EDP), local energy company Galp Energia, Spain’s Iberdrola and Gamesa and Italy’s Enel. "Four groups of companies presented proposals," said Manuela Fonseca, an official at the economy ministry’s geology and energy department. The two-phase project should generate 1,500 megawatts of wind power. EDP estimated it would [...]
Putin’s powerful call put energy security firmly at the centre of the agenda for Russia’s presidency this year of the Group of Eight industrialised nations. It also served to deflect Western criticism of Russia’s democratic record and offset damaging publicity linked to January’s dispute with Ukraine over the price of Russian gas, which disrupted supplies [...]
Yet the company can count itself lucky. Even with further project delays and cost increases possible, it is making steady progress on Sakhalin 2, one of only two developments underway in a region officials say holds more crude oil and natural gas than Europe’s North Sea. A jetty stretching into the icy waters off Russia’s [...]
"We intend to be much more active in the wind, power, solar energy, biomass and geothermal areas," Rubenstein said. "We think it’s an extremely attractive area in which to invest, particularly because many states in the US now require that utilities buy a certain percentage of their energy from solar, biomass, geothermal or wind power [...]
France is the world’s largest winemaker, producing 5.8 billion litres (1.276 billion Imp gallons) in 2004, according to Onivins, the country’s state-run wine body. Grape-based alcohol would have to be distilled before being dehydrated and turned into pure alcohol ready to be added to conventional fuel. "We are now starting to look into it, but [...]
The requirement will lead t? a 20-fold increase in biofuels use, which currently stands at about 0.25 percent of all road fuel sales, and the announcement received a largely positive response from the farming and renewable energy sectors. "I’m very positive (about the announcement). It is unusually unambigous and that is a great step forward," [...]
