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	FutureGen looks for carbon storage Posted by Platts On: 24-08-2010 Topic: General The US Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to go forward with parts of a flagship carbon capture and storage project, even while it searches for a new site to store the carbon dioxide that the coal-fired power plant captures. Last week Mattoon, Illinois, the long-planned site of Read More..   Origin generation reaches 2250MW Posted by Des Dugan On: 24-08-2010 Topic: General ORIGIN Energy managing director, Grant King (pictured) is the new Mr 10% with the company's underlying profits up, underlying earnings before interest and tax and underlying earnings per share, all up by the same magical figure. The reason for the 'underlying' in 2009 the company re Read More..   Aussies boost CLP profits Posted by Des Dugan On: 23-08-2010 Topic: General A 126% lift in TRUenergy dividend treatment and a 83% profit on the sale of a subsidiary in China helped lift CLP’s operating earnings before one-off items for the first half of 2010 by 23.1% to $HK4435m ($US570.4m). The first six month’s figures from Australia included a tax be Read More..   Germany reels under nuclear tax threat Posted by Associated Press On: 21-08-2010 Topic: General Germany's utilities are offering to pay the government billions to let them keep their nuclear power plants running longer instead of shutting them down as mandated under current law, energy giant RWE AG has said. The companies also want the government to back off a proposed tax on Read More..   Viet Nam gets competitive Posted by Des Dugan On: 20-08-2010 Topic: General VIET NAM will launch a pilot competitive market for electricity generation during the first six months of next year, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Do Huu Hao (pictured) revealed in Ha Noi on Wednesday. The preparation for the market was now “basically done,” he told Read More..   Ireland interconnector blasted Posted by Des Dugan On: 19-08-2010 Topic: General A public inquiry is to be held into controversial plans for an overhead electricity interconnector across the Irish border. Environment minister Edwin Poots has asked the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) to investigate the northern section of the proposed 100-mile stretch of pylons Read More..   Waves coming to shore Posted by Australian Broadcasting Commission On: 19-08-2010 Topic: General Australian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation's southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A new CSIRO energy atlas shows that if just 10% of the energy generated from waves was har Read More..   MAPP revises build finish date Posted by Press Release On: 18-08-2010 Topic: General The organisation that coordinates the region’s electric transmission system today reaffirmed the need to develop the $US1.2bln Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway (MAPP), a new high-voltage line in the Mid-Atlantic region with a new in-service date of 2015. “The revised date is still a Read More..
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