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A day after severe weather pummeled North Texas, Oncor Energy Corp. called Wednesday night's storm and the subsequent storms that followed some of the most severe in terms of power outages.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open an energy-efficient Supercenter store at 6051 Florin Road in south Sacramento next week. (WMT)

Jun 12 - Germany's renewable energy Act makes it profitable to invest in solar and other renewables, and now people are looking at is as an extra source of income during the recession.

The chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, under fire for taking a $75 million bonus while the company was losing billions, defended his leadership at one of the nation’s largest natural gas producers. The company’s annual meeting was held today with four separate shareholder legal actions pending over the bonus awarded to CEO Aubrey McClendon.

The Department of Energy is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had declared dead. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today that reviving the FutureGen plant is an important step that shows the administration’s commitment to carbon-capture technology.

Venezuela aims to expand its sales of oil to Cuba and other nations on highly preferential terms, putting politics over economics as it meets today with neighbors looking for more cheap fuel. Cuba especially needs the help.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon is refusing to answer questions from shareholders over a lawsuits challenging the bonus he was paid even as the company posted a $6 billion loss to start the year.

It seems unlikely that an agreement on the terms of the next climate treaty could be reached at the December-scheduled Copenhagen talks. The United States, not a member of the Kyoto Protocol and one of the major players in the international negotiations tussle over the climate treaty, has not yet reached a consensus over how to reduce carbon emissions and a bill successfully passing through the Senate in 2009 seems quite difficult. The major issues that US lawmakers need to look into are, first, how to make the transition from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to clean renewable energy sources and, second, how to finance this transition without burdening the people with any significant monetary load. The proposed carbon trading scheme has attracted criticism from the environmentalists since it allows the government to distribute emission permits to the industries free of cost. A bill proposing a nationwide carbon tax was also introduced in the US Congress but experts fear tha

The Obama administration gave conditional support today for a federal-industry partnership that would build an advanced coal-burning power plant in Illinois to trap and store carbon dioxide emissions, reversing a Bush-era decision to abandon the FutureGen project.The Energy Department plans to contribute slightly more than $1 billion to the project. The announcement follows pressure from Illinois lawmakers -- including Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat -- who had savaged former Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman's decision to abandon the plan early last year. [More]

How we see things around us without noticing it! We know the peculiar habit of the sunflower. How it moves with the movement of the sun everyday. But if we want to move anything with the help of sunlight we are not as lucky as the sunflower is. We first have to convert sunlight [...]Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Solar Power