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Flood-Damaged Homes to be Turned into EnergyFlood-damaged homes in Cedar Rapids may soon be generating electricity. The Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency on Tuesday approved a contract to sell at least 6,000 tons of ground-up wood debris to a Wisconsin plant that will burn it to produce energy.
Topix.net Thursday, September 17, 2009CEZ Secures GE Turbines For Romanian ProjectCEZ Group has signed a contract with General Electric for the supply of wind turbines to be installed on the 252.5 MW Cogealac phase of a wind farm project in Dobrogea, Romania.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, September 17, 2009Wind Project in Finnish Lapland PlannedFortum and Metsähallitus have jointly begun developing a wind power project in the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää area of northern Finland.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, September 17, 2009Theater, sewers first to get help from TVA's $40M to help Roane Co. recover from ash spillSewers and an old movie house are the first public works projects to benefit from Roane County's image makeover after a massive coal ash spill.
Topix.net Thursday, September 17, 2009Executive Order Raises California RPS to 33% by 2020California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt regulations increasing California's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 33 percent by 2020 - first established by the Governor's directive last year.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, September 17, 2009Aramco invites Wasea plant bidsSaudi Aramco has invited contractors to submit their bid for the construction of a fuel distribution plant in Wasea, near the kingdom's capital Riyadh, Reuters has reported. The plant is a wholesale receiving and distributing facility for oil products and would have capacity to handle 185,000 barrels per day of oil. The closing date for bids is mid-November, one contractor said. The plant should be completed by November 2011.
AME Thursday, September 17, 2009Schwarzenegger's Executive Order Raises California RPS to 33% by 2020California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt regulations increasing California's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 33 percent by 2020 - first established by the Governor's directive last year.
Renewable Energy World Thursday, September 17, 2009Kuwait Petroleum offers naphtha for spot liftingKuwait Petroleum Co (KPC) is offering 50,000 tons of naphtha for mid-October lifting, in an indication that its aromatics plant is unlikely to start up next month as expected. 'It seems like the
market is not as strong as it appears to be. I shall now reverse my bullish view,' one trader told Reuters. According to traders, the plant, which was to soak up 1.5 million tons of naphtha a year, was due to begin operations initially in April, but that was delayed to July, and later to September and now to Q4.
AME Thursday, September 17, 2009Oman awards power station dealOman's Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has awarded technical and financial advisory contracts for the 1,000 megawatts Duqm power station, Reuters has reported. Worsely Parsons has won the OR324,638 technical advisory contract for the project, while KPMG won the financial advisory deal worth OR418,511. 'The two contracts mean that we are going ahead with Oman's first coal-fired power project at Duqum,' PAEW has said.
AME Thursday, September 17, 2009Oneok sues Twitter for trademark infringementNatural gas distributor Oneok Inc. has sued social networking site Twitter for trademark infringement.
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