Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
HURRIYET – Turkey has raised a total of $5.76 billion from the auctions of four electricity grids, including the Boğaziçi, Gediz, Trakya and Dicle networks. A venture between İşkaya İnşaat, an Ankara-based construction company, and MMEKA Makina Ithalat Pazarlama, a joint venture between businessmen Mehmet Kazancı and Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, offered the highest figure during
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – You can see them in the country, along the motorway and even in the sea. Wind turbines are popping up all over Europe. Outside the Scottish city of Glasgow is one of Europe’s biggest onshore wind farms. Built on Eaglesham Moor, Whitelee Windfarm has 140 turbines and generates enough energy to power
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
PLATTS – Under a memorandum of understanding, International Power shareholders are to own 30% and GDF Suez shareholders 70% of New International Power, a company with over 66 GW of gross power generation capacity in operation and committed projects to deliver a further 22 GW, the companies said in a statement. If approved by employees
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
NASA – On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier, along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The Canadian Ice Service detected the remote event within hours in near real-time data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
9 NEWS- The US government has appointed its first female chief of a major intelligence bureau, with Letitia Long taking over as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Monday. Read More
Monday, August 9th, 2010
BBC – Local councils will be allowed to sell renewable electricity to the National Grid from today, with the energy secretary, Chris Huhne, urging them to position themselves at the forefront of a power revolution. Huhne has lifted a ban on the sale of surplus electricity to the grid by councils, which say the scheme could raise £100m
Monday, August 9th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – The capital is to be a global pioneer of the “smart” electricity grid, a technological innovation that could lead to a solar panel on almost every rooftop.The Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC), which supplies electricity to the city and surrounding areas, will have installed digital electricity meters in all buildings by the
Monday, August 9th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Moscow is engulfed in smog, 500 fires are still blazing across Russia and the deadly wildfires could pose a nuclear threat if they spread to an area contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. The German press on Friday says the overcentralization of power is partly to blame for the disaster. Read More
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) is to sign a contract with the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) for the development of software, provision of technical support, and supervision of its fleet management system (FMS) which it is planning to launch in the 2010/11 fiscal year. Read More
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Oil companies have spent 5 billion EUR on exploration drillings in the Barents Sea since the area was opened. However, the only gas or oil fields of economic interest which are found are the Snøhvit and Goliat fields. An oil or gas field must be of a certain size in order to
