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San Diego utility wants to turn off electricity to prevent wildfiresA San Diego utility has come up with an unusual tactic to prevent wildfires this fall: Turn off the electricity to a vast swath of homes before the flames arrive.
Topix.net Wednesday, September 09, 2009Japanese firms to develop Iraqi fieldA Japanese consortium comprising Nippon Oil and Inpex is negotiating with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to develop the Nassiriya oilfield, Aswat al-Iraq news agency has
reported. 'Negotiations have reached an advanced stage. Technical issues will soon be solved,' the ministry said.
AME Wednesday, September 09, 2009UAE says nuclear contract award not imminentA UAE government official has denied a report that the country is just days away from awarding the largest ever energy contract in the Middle East for the development of a nuclear power plant. The denial came in response to a Reuters report which said that the UAE was on the verge of naming a winner for the contract worth up to $40bn to build at least four reactors. 'The process is still ongoing,' the official said.
AME Wednesday, September 09, 2009Challenges abound as Mexico's oil monopoly gets new leaderThe Mexican government's supertanker-like oil monopoly, Pemex, has been listing badly for years, and President Felipe Calderon has just placed a less-experienced new captain at the helm.
Houston Chronicle Wednesday, September 09, 2009Report: Oil demand will start rising again next yearIHS-Cambridge Energy Research Associates says that global demand will climb next year and should be back to 2007's highs by 2012.
Houston Chronicle Wednesday, September 09, 2009Qatargas starts new LNG unitQatarGas has started a 7.8 million-tonne-year LNG production unit, its third this year, Bloomberg has
reported. Unit 5, which is a venture between state-owned Qatar Petroleum, Exxon Mobil and Total, would increase the country's annual LNG output capacity to 54 million tonnes or about 75 billion cubic meters of natural gas, the company said.
AME Wednesday, September 09, 2009Change at Mexico oil monopoly could open way for privatizationThe Mexican government's supertanker-like oil monopoly, Pemex, has been listing badly for years, and President Felipe Calderon has just placed a less-experienced new captain at the helm.
Houston Chronicle Wednesday, September 09, 2009Boulder: Xcel Energy announces launch of 'smart grid' cityXcel Energy has completed work on the infrastructure and launched the remaining software to turn Boulder into what is believed to be the first city ready to plug into the "smart grid." The Minneapolis-based utility said Tuesday that the $100 million project included stringing 200 miles of fiber optic cable and installing nearly 16,000 smart meters, ...
Topix.net Wednesday, September 09, 2009Suntech snubs OregonSuntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. will not be locating its U.S. manufacturing plant in Oregon.
Biz Journal Wednesday, September 09, 2009The U.S. Must Prioritize Its Carbon Strategy [Extended version]The House of Representatives passed the American Climate and Energy Security Act in June and sent it to the Senate. The House bill, running to 1,428 pages, aspires in one breathtaking stroke to take on
renewable energy, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), nuclear power, electric vehicles, carbon cap-and-trade, power transmission, energy efficiency and climate adaptation. It ranges from grand vision to minuscule details such as technical specifications on lighting fixtures.What’s missing in this sprawling draft is prioritization. The bill rightly recognizes that America and the rest of the world require a fundamental overhaul in energy technology and use. The insecurity of global oil supply lines, the growing global scarcity of conventional fossil fuels and the urgency to reduce carbon emissions all point to the need for a fundamental energy overhaul. Yet to accomplish such a worldwide, fundamental energy overhaul, we will need to keep our eye on the big picture--the technolog
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