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#non-Renewable: Ohio

May 19 2017 05:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

FirstEnergy’s plan, for a rescue of its . . . 2 uncompetitive Ohio nuclear plants, . . . need $5 billion to keep afloat, . . . took a nosedive May 17, as the . . . Ohio House Public Utilities Committee suspended action, . . . on the company’s prop...

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#non-Renewables: India

May 19 2017 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Gujarati state officials, had planned a . . . 4,000-Megawatt ultra-mega power project (UMPP). But, that has now been scrapped, . . . because, India aims to become a solar power leader, and run off . . . one terawatt (one million million watts) of rene...

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#renewables Save Money

May 17 2017 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Some of the world's biggest suppliers of fossil fuel, . . . are seeking to use more renewable energy themselves, . . . as they strive to drive down costs, and curb emissions. Glencore, the world's biggest shipper of seaborne coal, . . . said i...

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#renewable Energy Forcast

May 16 2017 07:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Frost & Sullivan, . . . 2017 Global Power Industry Outlook, examines: . . . . . . power market trends, . . . . . . installed capacity, . . . . . . investment, and . . . . . . regional growth across: . . . . . . . . . coal-fired, . . . . . . . . ....

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#oil Production Cuts, Why?

May 16 2017 07:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Major oil-producing nations, (Saudi Arabia and Russia) . . . have struggled of late to bolster prices, as inventories piled up, and . . . crimped the potential for demand. Prices dipped below . . . $44 a barrel this month, their lowest level in mo...

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#fukushima Cost $188 Billion

May 11 2017 12:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Tepco, is trying to place itself on a sounder financial footing, . . . after the government in December, . . . almost doubled its estimate for the costs related to the Fukushima disaster to . . . 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion). 5-11-2017 Source...

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#coal: Follow The Money

May 10 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Buffett believes that ‘coal is essentially certain to decline, . . . as a percentage of the revenue’; of his BNSF railroad, amdt . . . hat in one to two decades, they’ll be shipping less coal, . . . or might no longer be burning any of it at all, . . ....

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#coal: France Say's No!

May 09 2017 06:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

France's president Emmanuel Macron’s climate policies include: . . . . . . phasing out coal power, . . . . . . doubling renewable capacity by 2022, and . . . . . . raising the carbon price to €100 a ton by 2030, . . . but needs a parliamentary mand...

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#coal Plants In Australia

May 02 2017 07:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

AGL Energy, Australia’s largest integrated energy company, says . . . Australia’s transition away from a coal power dominated national grid, . . . to low-carbon generation will largely bypass “baseload” gas, and . . . instead shift straight to large-sc...

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#coal Plants In Mexico

May 02 2017 07:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), . . . New Mexico’s Largest Electricity Provider, Proposes Going . . . 100% Coal-Free For a utility that’s been powering its customers with coal for 1/2 a century, and . . . which has aggressively defended it...

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