The Democrat running for Wyoming's seat in the U.S. House says a good way to lower fuel prices would be to require all oil produced in the United States to be used in the United States and not be sold overseas.

BANGALORE, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- As part of expansion initiatives aimed at achieving revenue of $1 billion by 2012, DuPont India (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh), a subsidiary of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company (NYSE: DD) (Wilmington, Delaware), recently announced the introduction of a new business initiative, DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS), to foray into India's photovoltaic market. DPVS will function as the marketing face of DuPont's solar power products and provide technical assistance to customers in India's market. India's government has received

Geologists joined community and business leaders in Charleston on Thursday. They discussed how levees might one day be needed along the Charleston peninsula and rising sea levels could wash over South ...

BANGALORE, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Tata BP Solar India Limited (New Delhi, India), a joint venture of Tata Power (BOM: 500400) (Mumbai) and BP Solar, a division of BP (NYSE: BP) (London), is India's leading player in the nonconventional energy sector. The company plans to increase its capacity to 300 megawatts (MW), with a target of becoming a $1 billion firm by 2012. As part of its expansion plans, Tata BP Solar has invested $100 million in the current fiscal year to manufacture 180 MW of solar cells and 125 MW of solar modules. Their existing capacity of solar

PSEG Global and Michael Nakhamkin, who designed the only compressed air-storage facility in the U.S., announced that they are forming a joint venture called energy Storage and Power and will invest $20 million ...

This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager shows the sun rising on the morning of Day 90, Aug.

CORDOBA, ARGENTINA (MARKET WIRE) researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, recently submitted an environmental impact study for a $1.7 billion power plant to supply electricity to its four mining divisions: Codelco Northern, El Salvador, Andina and El Teniente, located in northern and central Chile. The Central Termoelectrica Energia Minera project includes the construction of a thermoelectric power plant that would run on three 350-megawatt turbines and be connected to Chile's central grid. Officials have said that Codelco plans to launch an

Schroder investment management's Webber has "turned negative" on solar energy; Analysis by Simon Webber of Schroder Investment Management

TOPEKA, KS (MARKET WIRE) The Westar energy, Inc. (NYSE: WR) Board of Directors today declared a quarterly dividend of 29 cents per share payable Oct. 1, 2008, on the company's common stock.

TOLEDO, OH (MARKET WIRE) Xunlight Corporation, a leader in the development of low-cost and flexible thin-film silicon solar modules, today announced it has received $11 million of additional financing from institutional investors. The investment was led by Rabo Ventures, a division of Rabobank, a top 25 global financial institution based in the Netherlands. Existing investors Trident Capital and Emerald Technology Ventures also participated in the financing.