E.ON chief Paul Golby fears clean coal may never be viable
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extra funding and better market conditions must be created for clean coal if it is ever to progress "beyond the blueprint", says Paul Golby.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extra funding and better market conditions must be created for clean coal if it is ever to progress "beyond the blueprint", says Paul Golby.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- German utility E.On AG and Spanish firm Abengoa SA said Wednesday they have formed a 50:50 partnership to jointly own and operate two 50-Megawatt concentrating solar power plants in Spain. The plants, which are already under construction, will require a total investment of 550 million euros ($827 million). They are located in Ecija in southern Spain, one of the best areas...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
LONDON, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Payzone in conjunction with E.ON and npower, are offering their customers the chance to share in a GBP10,000 free energy* prize fund this winter by paying for gas and / or electricity at 14,000 participating Payzone outlets across the UK**.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Nuclear firm Westinghouse expected to appoint Shaw Group to lead its construction programme Thousands of jobs that were to have been created in Britain to build the next generation of nuclear power plants could be heading overseas instead, after Westinghouse , the nuclear company sold by the government three years ago to Toshiba , chose one of its largest shareholders as the lead contractor to build...
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Green Building of the week from Inhabitat is this energy-positive house in Sweden - Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in Sweden . Karin Adalberth, a doctor of building physics, partnered with local green utility company E. ON when she designed the plans for Villa Akarp, which is being built outside the Swedish city of Malmo. Together, the two worked out a plan where the residence would...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
(TrendHunter.com) The solar panel covered Villa Akarp is currently being built by Karin Adalberth and E. ON in Malmo, Sweden. When complete, the house will help save enough, and produce enough, green energy to give back…
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Bill creates fairer energy market for consumers, says Ed Miliband The latest energy bill is designed to help the UK move towards a low-carbon economy. It includes a £9.5bn levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstration carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal power plants. The "CCS Incentive", as the levy is known, was announced last week by energy secretary Ed Miliband as he...
Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As we all reel from the fact that furtive members of T-Mobile staff have been flogging off the personal details of customers to anyone with a big enough blank cheque, news of another data leak has emerged. Peculiarly-monikered energy supplier E.On (henceforth known as ‘Ian’) have fessed up after the personal details of 817 of their [...]
India Press Release (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Center will also assess the development needs of energy company's staff
Car News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Excitement is building as the first 25 full production all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV’s arrive at Bristol’s Royal Portbury Docks. Final preparation has already begun before the cars hit the road on December 12th 2009 as part of a West Midlands based government trial. The i-MiEV’s left Japan by boat six weeks ago and their arrival has been eagerly awaited, especially by the end users...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The energy firm E.On is investigating after the personal details of 817 customers were disclosed in error.
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
REpower Installs Final Turbine at Alpha Ventus REpower Systems AG this week erected the last of a total of six REpower 5M wind turbines for the alpha ventus offshore test field. Alpha ventus is located 45 kilometers north of the island of Borkum and was built by a consortium of companies including EWE, E.ON, and Vattenfall. Visit [...]
Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
This came in via my forums today and I thought it was too interesting to not blog about. If you read his post, you can see he needs to support rotating data such that A B C changes to B A C. However, he also has groupings within his data. So imagine now you have ABC in the first group and DE in the second. Your rotation now needs to be "in" group, so on your first iteration you have: A B...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Legislation aimed at moving Britain towards low-carbon economy and increase investment in flood defence Money for "clean coal", improved flood defences and tougher protection of the Antarctica wilderness are expected to be the key environmental components of the government's legislative agendain tomorrow's Queen's speech. The latest energy bill is designed to help the UK move towards a low-carbon...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
November 16-23 This week’s news round up includes: US Offshore Wind Collaborative, Cape Wind, RWE Innogy, Scottish and Southern Energy, GE, E.ON, Pavilion Energy Resources, First Wind, Lost Creek project, Siemens, British Wind Energy Association and the European Investment Bank. read more Visit the original post at: Wind Power News