Energy Update
Costa Rica ran on 100 percent renewable energy for 76 straight days between June and August this year, according to a new report, demonstrating that life without fossil fuels is possible - for small countries, at least.
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - About 10,000 retired coal
miners and their families descended upon the U.S. Congress on
Thursday to pressure lawmakers to pass stalled legislation that
would prevent 22,000 of them from losing their pension and
health benefits as soon as early 2017.
My Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2016 model portfolio continued to coast upward in August after five months of blistering performance since February, while clean energy sector benchmarks and real managed portfolio, the Green Global Equity Income Portfolio (GGEIP), pulled back slightly.
Wind turbine makers in India are looking at building more renewable energy projects that would combine solar and wind in a bid to provide a reliable and cost-effective power supply.
The city of El Paso has many nicknames, but “The Sun City” is probably the most well-known. After two important energy updates this summer, West Texas’ largest city has even more reason to call itself that.
At the end of the 20th century, electric generation in the U.S. came primarily from five sources; coal, nuclear, natural gas, petroleum, and hydroelectric. In 1999, 45 states relied on three of those five energy sources for their top three sources of electric generation. The exception was five states, which had biomass in their top three. There wasn’t much energy diversity in electric generation back then.
The Netherlands would like to be regarded as a pacesetter in renewable energy, but it lags behind most other European Union nations, with only 5.8 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources. Whereas it is striving to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, the Netherlands’ climate policy relies heavily on voluntary compliance from the corporate sector and has been controversial.
LIBREVILLE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Gabon's opposition faced a
legal deadline on Thursday to seek a vote recount in an election
they say was stolen by President Ali Bongo, whose family has
ruled the oil-rich OPEC member state for about half a century.
BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) - China completed construction
last month of 19 million barrels of new tanks for its state
crude oil reserves and expects to start filling them late this
year, two industry sources with knowledge of the project said on
Thursday.
SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The liquefied natural gas
(LNG) industry has morphed from energy's golden child to black
sheep in the last two years, with demand slumping just as
supplies soars.
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