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Diablo Canyon reactor restarted after repairsAVILA BEACH, Calif. a " A nuclear reactor at the Diablo Canyon plant has returned to service after it was shut down a week ago because of a transformer problem.Pacific Gas & Electric said Unit 2 at the Central Coast plant was restarted Saturday night after being fixed earlier this week.
Topix.net Wednesday, August 26, 2009Continue reading ''200 Entergy workers relocating to Jackson''A caravan of Entergy power trucks drive down Interstate 10 towards New Orleans in Sept., 2008.
Topix.net Wednesday, August 26, 2009Houston's Parker Drilling will operate powerful BP rigHouston's Parker Drilling has won a contract with BP to operate and maintain a land drilling rig on Alaska's North Slope that Parker says is the world's most powerful.
Houston Chronicle Wednesday, August 26, 2009Green Tech BrightensAmericans have been given a respite from the constant dribble of bad news. And so have the country's entrepreneurs. As the nation's gross domestic product is stabilizing, investment in start-ups is considerably picking up.
Renewable Energy World Wednesday, August 26, 2009Iraq reduces fees to stimulate oil auctionIraq has reduced signature bonuses in the hope that a second oil auction, to be held later this year, will prove more successful than the first. However, foreign oil firms may still be put off by the fact that they have to pay non-recoverable fees ion order to take part in the auction, Reuters has
reported. Global oil companies were unhappy with the initial auction in June ? the first since 2003 - after it became clear that Iraq was unwilling to pay anticipated fees to develop the country's oil fields. ?We expect a better matching between our expectations with what the companies are going to bid in the second round," Iraq's Oil Minister, Hussain al-Shahristani said.
AME Wednesday, August 26, 2009Six consultancies to bid for nuclear contractSix international companies have been chosen to bid for a contract to provide service-related and technical-related consultancy for the nuclear safety department in Egypt. Part of the Egyptian nuclear program, companies from France, UK, Germany, Canada, USA and South Korea were chosen from 17 initial bids presented in April, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy said. The consultancy finally chosen will be expected to improve employer efficiency through practical and academic training, provide training on the use of nuclear safety codes used in assessment and monitoring, as well as the ability to carry out quality control programs.
AME Wednesday, August 26, 2009GE wins Kuwait power station bidKuwait's Central Tendering Committee (CTC) has awarded General Electric (GE) a KD770m contract for building the new AlـSabiya power station, Al Watan Daily has
reported. GE was the preferred supplier and will start operations by summer 2011. The contract is expected to be signed once legalities have been completed. The power station is expected to produce more than 2,000 megawatts of electricity, the newspaper said.
AME Wednesday, August 26, 2009Suniva ARTisun Cells Surpass 18% EfficiencySuniva Inc.
announced that its ARTisun series
solar cells are achieving conversion efficiencies of more than 18 percent in production, a record for screen- printed cells in regular full-scale production.
Renewable Energy World Wednesday, August 26, 2009ReneSola & Wuzhong Government to Develop 150-MW Solar ProjectReneSola Ltd. has been granted the exclusive right to develop a 150-megawatt (MW) on-grid solar power project with a budgeted total investment of RMB 4.8 billion [US $706 million]. The agreement is the result of a letter of intent (LOI) signed with the Taiyangshan Development Zone in Wuzhong city, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Renewable Energy World Wednesday, August 26, 2009Aurora Biofuels Doubles Algae's CO2 Uptake and Fuel ProductionAurora Biofuels said that it has succeeded in optimizing its base algae strains to more than double CO2 consumption and fuel production. The company has proven these results in an outdoor open system over the last several months.
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