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APS seeks more money for commercial solar systemsArizona Public Service Co. is looking to raise an additional $143 million to boost the rollout of commercial solar power systems as demand outstrips the utility's allocation of incentives.
Biz Journal Thursday, August 20, 2009More Having Their Power, Electricity Shut Off For Unpaid BillsXcel Energy cut off gas or electricity to nearly 30,000 delinquent customers in Colorado in the first five months of the year, 15 percent more than during the same period a year ago.
Topix.net Thursday, August 20, 2009Kuwait: Opec should keep quota steadyKuwait's oil minister has said that Opec should agree to maintain oil production targets when it meets next month to decide quotas, Bloomberg has
reported.
oil prices are ?not too bad, not too bad at all,? Sheikh Ahmed al-Abdullah al-Sabah has said. Al-Sabah favours an oil price of $70-$80 a barrel. Economists at Deutsche Bank said a cut is still possible as inventory levels keep rising.
AME Thursday, August 20, 2009Jordanian Electirc receives substation controllersUS-based Advanced Control Systems (ACS) has said it has delivered 25 Connex 30 substation controllers to the Jordanian Electric Power Company. The units, which comply with the new substation integration standard IEC-61850, advances a smart grid effort that began in 2000 with the implementation of a PRISM Distribution Management System from ACS which included 35 substation controllers replacing legacy RTUs, ACS has said.
AME Thursday, August 20, 2009Mott MacDonald wins OXY dealOccidental of Oman Inc (OXY) has awarded UK-based Mott MacDonald a three-year contract for general engineering services in Occidental's concessions regions in the Sultanate. Under the agreement, Mott MacDonald will provide multi-disciplinary engineering design and technical support services for the oil and gas surface facilities expansion and operational activities at OXY?s concessions regions presently in Blocks 9 and 27 of Safah, Wadi Latham and Khamila.
AME Thursday, August 20, 2009Oerlikon Expands Thin Film Line to RussiaOerlikon Solar
announced this week that Nano Solar Technology Ltd. (NST), a newly formed Russian high-tech firm, has ordered a 120-megawatt end-to-end Micromorph line for production of thin film solar modules. With the envisaged production capacity of one million solar modules annually, this is the largest equipment order in the worldwide thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV)
market in 2009 to-date, according to Oerlikon.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, August 20, 2009Hyundai Expands Wind BusinessAmerican Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) recently received an order for 17 sets of full wind turbine electrical systems from South-Korean based Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for use in its 1.65-megawatt (MW) machines.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, August 20, 2009Airlines To Use Synthetic Diesel for Ground Service EquipmentThe Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines,
announced earlier this week that eight of its member airlines have signed an agreement with Rentech, Inc. and Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG) to purchase up to 1.5 million gallons per year of renewable synthetic diesel fuel (RenDiesel) for use in ground service equipment at Los Angeles International Airport, beginning in late 2012, when Rentech's plant to produce the fuel is scheduled to go into service.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, August 20, 2009Woodside to triple Pluto LNP outputWOODSIDE Petroleum expects to triple production from its $12 billion Pluto liquefied natural gas project off the Western Australian coast by 2014.
Topix.net Thursday, August 20, 2009TVA faces budget pressure from ash spill, pensionsThe financial impact of the massive coal ash spill in Tennessee will soon be known to Tennessee Valley Authority ratepayers.
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