There’s an emerging trend among utilities across the country to undermine a law that promotes solar energy. The attack is on a decades-old law called the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, or PURPA — a law that has paved the way for policies that have brought renewable energy into the mainstream in the U.S.
A long-planned Lake Erie wind project got an important boost in September. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with the Coast Guard and the Army Corp of Engineers, held a public scoping session to start a federal environmental assessment for Project Icebreaker, which would construct six wind turbines about eight miles from shore.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister
Najib Razak avoided broad populist measures in his budget
announcement on Friday, reassuring markets by pledging to cut
the country's large fiscal deficit and debt burden.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Palm oil production in
Malaysia, the world's second-largest producer, is forecast to
rise in 2017 by 5.6 percent from this year on better yields and
an expansion in matured areas, the government said on Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia is banking on
domestic demand and a recovery in global commodities prices to
help it grow slightly faster in 2017 and reduce its large budget
deficit.
JAKARTA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia expects to decide
within "one or two weeks" on a plan by Inpex Corp to
increase proposed output from the Masela natural gas field to
nearly four times the level originally slated, a senior energy
official said on Friday.
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