The President of the Tokyo Electric Power Company resigned today.
President Masataka Shimizu, leader of the company that operated of the notorious Fukushima nuclear power plant, announced his resignation today: Keep reading →
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BP will build a fourth wind farm in Texas, the oil giant announced on May 4, just days after the anniversary of the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
This latest renewable energy project from a troubled oil company has illuminated controversial disagreements over the real costs and benefits of wind power. Keep reading →
From far away, it may appear no different than any other oversized ship in the yard.
Shell announced on Friday that it would be building the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, located some 125 miles off Australia’s shores and estimated to be 1,600 feet long and weigh 600,000 tons when filled to capacity. Keep reading →
A once far-fetched idea may soon become a staple of utility information management.
Smart meters will now be everywhere from Long Island and Kansas to Maui and South Korea. Keep reading →
Breaking Energy gets feedback: great for “energy nerds and energy newbies” Keep the comments coming! @AOLenergy
Canada is America’s largest supplier of oil and it plans to stay that way. Keep reading →
Efforts to spread the production and use of clean electricity production as part of job creation are global.
This video outlines a project from the World Bank in the politically volatile Middle East, where the bank’s funds are helping build solar energy. The bank has begun investing millions in concentrated solar projects (CSP) that will not only capture the desert heat for electricity production, but also help temper the region’s sky-high unemployment rates. Keep reading →
Despite the recent financial setbacks to the Cape Wind project, New Jersey will be following Massachusetts and clearing its water for offshore wind development, Governor Chris Christie announced on Monday. Keep reading →
President Obama used his Saturday address to the American public to further mark out his approach to energy policy, despite a retreat in oil prices back below $100/barrel that has taken some of the immediate pressure off the Administration to act.
Along with advocating for the repeal of $4 billion in tax subsidies to oil and gas companies, Obama called for investment in “clean, renewable sources of energy that are the ultimate solution to high gas prices.” Keep reading →
