Norwegian solar-power outfit Renewable Energy Corp. aims to produce nearly 10 times more solar wafers by 2010 that it does today by investing NOK1.35 billion ($235.8 million), the company heralded Tuesday. 
BP’s U.S. renewable energy business has placed an order with Danish wind-power giant Vestas for 182 turbines which could cost upwards of $165 million, according to one estimate. 
BP will put $63.6 million into a biofuels joint venture with D1 Oils aimed at growing jatropha, a crop, as feedstock to blend with diesel for less overall use of hydrocarbons. 
Opinion appears to differ on where to deploy and concentrate technology to curtail global warming and begin earning from the trade in carbon, judging by a week of declarations on carbon capture and storage, or CCS, from the North Sea. 
Aker Kvaerner and Praj Industries have been chosed to do the early engineering and design on the a bio-ethanol plant BP and partners announced it would build at Saltland near Hull. 
Hydro and Siemens Power Generation have entered into an agreement to cooperate on technology to develop floating wind turbines based on the Norwegian energy company’s Hywind concept. 
Supermajor BP will build a “world scale” biofuels plant in the United Kingdom with mass-produced food groups Associated British Foods and Dupont, it was announced Tuesday. 
Investors flocked to renewable energy industries in 2006 like never before, with capital seen streaming into the likes of solar, bio-fuels and wind rising to $100 billion, up $20 billion over 2005. 
Florida-based World Energy Solutions is about ready to file a patent for an alternator that uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen which will in turn replace a quarter of the gasoline used by an ordinary car.
Chevron has enrolled Texas farming expertise to help the oil company arrive at mass production of ethanol and other bio-fuels from cellulose, it was learned Tuesday. |
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U.K. supermajor BP and mining company Rio Tinto have formed a joint venture aimed at creating “de-carbonized” power plants wich couple carbon capture and storage techniques with hydrogen removed from gas and coal for fuel. 
Scottish Power and Hammerfest Strøm have signed an agreement to develop Norwegian technology and tidal energy in the UK, with Statoil as lead shareholder in new venture. 
A peculiar auction will be held this June in London where fuel-cell patents, exhaust-scrubbing technology and other green inventions will be offered all-comers, it was understood Thursday. 
Talisman Energy (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc. has announced first power from the Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project.
Aker Kvaerner and India-based engineering outfit, Praj Industries, will form a 40-60 joint venture to bring bio-ethanol to the European market en masse, it was understood Wednesday.
The Schwarzenegger-driven energy companies of California have showcased a car-charged lithium battery technology aimed at turning motive power into electricity for the home and business grid, it was learned Tuesday. 
Oilfield services outfit Oceanteam Power & Umbilical of Aberdeen will install the sub-sea cables on E.ON’s largest-ever U.K.-sector wind farm at Robin Rigg, it was learned Tuesday. 
At the inauguration of a new 36MW solar photovoltaic (PV) production line, the board of Tata BP Solar confirmed that this represents another step towards realizing the designed potential of the 300MW plant. The new production line has seen Tata BP Solar more than double its cell manufacturing capacity to reach some 50MW per annum. The next phase of the expansion will see an additional 128MW of cell manufacturing capacity added during 2007-8.
Germany’s thriving wind-turbine industry could face “irreversible damage” along with the economy if innovators like drive and control company Bosch Rexroth fail to find the engineers needed to keep expanding.
Neste, paper maker join biofuel push Mar 16, 2007
Finnish oil company Neste Oil and paper products maker Stora Enso have joined up to evolve technology that burns wood residues for power, heat and biofuels, it was learned Friday. |
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