SAO PAULO, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil
company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, on Wednesday
announced the sale of ethanol and petrochemicals assets for $587
million, but said it would still fall $1.5 billion short of its
divestment target for the 2015-2016 period.
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Democrats on the U.S.
Senate's environment panel on Wednesday asked President-elect
Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection
Agency to disclose his ties to the energy industry ahead of his
confirmation hearing early next year.
One billion tons of biological material—that’s enough to fill a 16-foot flatbed truck stacked roughly up to the moon! But we wouldn’t have to “shoot for the moon” to produce this much biomass every year.
Spain’s Ence – Energia y Celulosa on Dec. 15 said it will buy Spanish utility Endesa's stake in two biomass plants.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week said that its Geothermal Technologies Office has completed seismic data acquisition at two key geothermal sites in northern Nevada.
A pumped storage hydropower facility in Montana that was recently given a license by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will support operations of local wind generating facilities once the project is completed.
Dec 28 (Reuters) - Western Refining's plant in St. Paul
Park, Minnesota could be headed for a strike at the beginning of
the year, according to a union statement on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Democrats on the U.S.
Senate's environment panel on Wednesday asked President-elect
Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection
Agency to disclose his ties to the energy industry ahead of his
confirmation hearing early next year.
LIMA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Workers at Peru's Camisea natural
gas fields have called off a strike scheduled for Thursday after
reaching a deal on labor benefits with Argentina energy company
Pluspetrol, the union SUTRAPPEC said Wednesday.
Is renewable energy infrastructure? According to Miriam Webster, infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
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