”future energy” News

WWF backs UAE's push for greener cleaner future

ABU DHABI (AFP) - Global conservation group WWF on Wednesday backed the oil-rich United Arab Emirates ' plan to build the world's first zero-carbon emissions city and a futuristic solar-powered electricity plant.
01 24 2008 9:40AM (...more)

Solar power offers light and hope to Bangladesh villages

PRITOMODDI, Bangladesh (Reuters Life!) – Straw fences and tin roofs: the homes in Pritomoddi village are typical of millions of others across rural Bangladesh , except for one thing: the shiny 08 20 2009 6:22AM (...more)

NETL Building Hydrogen Production and Dispensing Facility at Yeager Airport

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Joe Culver of National Energy Technology Laboratory , +1-304-285-4822 MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Energy's
03 26 2009 2:25PM (...more)

Lawmakers Safeguard State's Energy Future With Bipartisan Approval of Energy Reform Package

To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Kelly Rossman-McKinney, The Michigan Jobs and Energy Coalition, +1-517-749-0529 LANSING, Mich., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State lawmakers actedto safeguard Michigan's energy future with strong bipartisan approval
09 19 2008 3:35PM (...more)

Executive Director of the Energy Future Coalition Reid Detchon Issues Statement on New U.S. Energy Information Administration Report

Reid Detchon, Executive Director of the Energy Future Coalition, today hailed a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as “an important and valuable validation of a 25x’25 energy future.”
09 12 2007 5:05PM (...more)

U.S. energy future hits snag in rural Pennsylvania

DIMOCK, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – When her children started missing school because of persistent diarrhea and vomiting, Pat Farnelli began to wonder if she and her family were suffering from more than just a classroom bug. After trying several remedies, she stopped using the water
03 13 2009 8:59PM (...more)

Obama's Forceful Call to Arms: Defining the Nation's Energy Future

In an extraordinary press conference yesterday introducing his energy/environmental team President-elect Barack Obama put forward his energy program. In doing so he conveyed a sense
12 17 2008 11:58AM (...more)

Lebanon losing battle to keep the lights on

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A candle flickering in her darkened home, Fouada Hawi rails against the daily 10-hour power cuts that Lebanon's ailing electricity utility inflicts on her. "It's unbearable,"
12 9 2008 7:59AM (...more)

Some see energy future in old mill dams

WINDSOR, Vt. – More than 150 years after it helped power the industrial revolution , the waters of Mill Brook that spill over a series of dams past the old Armory may
12 9 2008 5:13AM (...more)

Shell sets out vision of energy future

LONDON (AFP) - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell unveiled its vision of the world's future energy sources Thursday, suggesting two scenarios where policy either remains with individual countries or is decentralised to allow a reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions.
02 15 2008 11:42AM (...more)