Energy Update
QUITO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Ecuador sent soldiers and police
on Thursday to an isolated jungle area after a policeman was
killed and several security officials injured in a violent
protest against a Chinese copper exploration project amid
conflicts between mining companies and indigenous communities.
LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has
become a lightning rod for criticism in parts of the Republican
Party and the fossil fuels industry unhappy about the Obama
administration's energy and climate policies.
“May you live long enough to have the plants you permitted be replaced by other plants you permitted,” said Robert Schulte, Principal at Schulte Associates, at a session about bringing energy storage to market at PGI 2016 in Orlando.
At Wednesday afternoon’s session on the challenges of low-carbon generation, Benjamin Borsch told an interesting story.
SAO PAULO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's oil company Petróleo
Brasileiro SA has agreed to sell its 49 percent stake
in the sugar and ethanol joint venture Nova Fronteira Bioenergia
SA to partner São Martinho SA, both companies said in
securities filings on Thursday.
ACCRA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The World Bank Group said on
Thursday it two of its units would provide another $517 million
to Ghana in debt and guarantees to support the $7.7 billion
Sankofa oil and gas project developed by Italy's ENI SpA
and upstream trader Vitol Ghana.
Microgrids are not new. Hospitals, universities, government buildings and military bases have relied on backup generators and central heat and power (CHP) systems for years. But the emergence of renewable energy, especially solar PV, and a heightened need for more reliable and resilient electricity supply has in the last few years catapulted microgrids into the limelight.
SAO PAULO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday
charged former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
his wife and a former finance minister with more corruption
charges in the investigation of graft at state-run oil company
Petrobras.
Lithium-ion batteries may grab a lot of attention in the conversation about energy storage these days, but on Wednesday panelists at POWER-GEN International shared insights about the benefits to today’s markets for other energy storage technologies, such as pumped storage hydro, flow batteries and compressed air/liquid air.
Policies to support renewable energy adoption have been in place worldwide for more than a decade and as the installed capacity of renewable energy has grown, technology has also improved dramatically.
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