The web giant said it will invest $100m ($61m ) in Shepherds Flat, which is projected to be the largest wind farm in the world. It will be able to generate 845MW and supply enough energy for 235,000 average US homes when it comes online in 2012. GE Energy Financial Services and Caithness Energy are existing owners of the project near Arlington, Oregon, which will take up about 30 square miles.
Friday, 29 April 2011
Thursday, 28 April 2011
New Rules On Price Hikes For Energy Firms
New Rules On Price Hikes For Energy Firms
Gas and electricity suppliers will have to give customers 30 days' notice before increasing prices under new regulations which come into force today.
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Batteries hold promise for Wyoming wind power
A $44 million large-scale battery system proposed for a wind farm in Texas could be a “game-changer” for wind energy, an industry spokesman says.
Yet others in the wind power industry and the natural gas power industry, which provides a lot of fill-in power for wind energy, aren’t quite as excited.
The 36-gigawatt battery system — the largest known system tied to a wind farm — is slated for installation at the Duke Energy Corp.-owned 153-megawatt Notrees wind project.
Such a system can store energy produced during times of lower electricity consumption and then pump that energy into the grid during peak demand times — smoothing out the flow of electricity into the grid.
That might prove to be an important innovation for Wyoming, where several companies, including North Carolina-based Duke, are operating and developing wind farms to harness the state’s unceasingly world-class winds.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
As Greenpeace Knocks IT Sector For Bad Energy Habits, Google Buys More Wind Power
Greenpeace published a study on energy consumption and choices made by IT companies including Akamai, Amazon.com (Amazon Web Services), Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo, entitled “How Dirty Is Your Data?”. The study roundly criticizes the sector, especially Facebook, for using “dirty energy” — power produced from hydrocarbon based sources, especially coal — to meet growing IT demand. It also criticized companies for concealing details about their own, overall energy footprint and practices.
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Is the 'cloud' green or not? Greenpeace scrutinizes 10 giants
Friday, 22 April 2011
Dubai seeks to become LNG trading hub
Emirate is looking to develop export capacity. Dubai is looking into developing its capacity to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the intention of turning the emirate into a gas trading and transport hub serving the Asian market.We have begun to talk about how we might form a gas hub, said Paul Mason, manager of government-owned Dubai Supply Authority (Dusup), told delegates at the Dubai Global Energy Forum.We have the ability to import LNG but not the ability to export, so that might be the logical next step, he added.
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Trading Natural Gas
When commodities trading it is often important to understand the commodity you are planning to trade, particularly who makes it, who buys it, and what factors are likely to affect supply and demand. This will frequently drive the price. It pays to do a little homework, especially if you are thinking of trading anything other than oil or gold, which tend to be the most popular commodity spread bet markets.
In this article we take a closer look at what has been powering prices for natural gas recently. Natural gas is readily available for commodities trading as a spread bet or CFD contract. Usually, natural gas prices rise over the winter months in the northern hemisphere, and then fall in the spring, but the earthquake in Japan has not only profoundly shaken the country causing massive damage and loss of life, the fallout from what is happening with its nuclear power stations is also spilling into global commodities trading.
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