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Most companies, like football teams, perform better when playing on their home turf. Not Amadeus Energy, one of the few small foreign oil and gas producers to have found a way of succeeding in the USA. But it’s a different story
Full story...The World Bank has called on national governments not to mandate an increase biofuels production until there is greater clarity about how much biofuels are contributing to the global food price crisis. Juergen Voegele, director
Full story...In February, London’s previous mayor implemented a low-emission zone (LEZ) that requires all diesel vehicles over 12,000 tonnes entering London to be fitted with exhaust treatment systems or pay a £200 daily charge. This new
Full story...Last week’s decision by oil and gas giant Shell to pull out of the London Array offshore wind farm project caused understandable consternation about the future of the project and, indeed, about the future of large scale
Full story...The Indian economy is forecast to grow at around nine per cent per year, and it’s that simple statistic that lies behind India’s rapid emergence as one of the potential economic powerhouses of the 21st century. But the country’s
Full story...The increasing consumption of food commodities by the alternative energy sector at a time of shortages is causing increasing international disquiet. In the US on Friday, two dozen Republican senators asked the Environmental
Full story...Nevtah Capital Management is not a name that gives anything away about the operations of the company, but Nevtah in fact qualifies for inclusion simultaneously on two of our sister sites, Minesite.com and Poweralternatives.com.
Full story...Randall MacEwen, chief executive of Los Angeles-based Solar Integrated Technologies, jokes that the last year feels more like ten years. But looking back, it’s clear that Mr MacEwen has achieved a great deal in a short time. When
Full story...As the price of crude oil nears US$120, soaring food prices are provoking a rethink as regards biofuels in the US and Europe. While the amount of fuel produced from crops such as corn and soya is currently only a small part of
Full story...Energetix boss Adrian Hutchings is proud of the simplicity of his company’s Genlec combined heat and power (CHP) unit, which he hopes will soon begin to challenge standard household boilers as an energy efficient way of powering
Full story...Stephen Coates, chief executive of Homeland Energy has a very interesting rebuttal for those who are of the view that the current power crisis in South Africa is a sign that the whole country is going to hell in a hand-cart. But
Full story...It’s all in the name – Poweralternatives.com. When this website was launched by Commodity Watch some nine months ago, the intention was to focus on forms of energy other than those derived from fossil fuels which consist of oil,
Full story...President George W Bush’s conversion on green issues has so far failed to impress. The day before the third meeting of a US-led major economies grouping in Paris last week Mr Bush announced a new target of halting the growth in
Full story...Since joining London’s Aim market last July, solar cell maker Jetion Holdings has hit every milestone it set for itself, including doubling the capacity of its manufacturing facility in China, increasing sales into Europe and
Full story...Aim-traded Romag doesn’t generate much news flow. Lately, though, the shares have started to react to announcements affecting the solar industry. This is indicative of a change of emphasis at Romag, a UK-based specialist glass
Full story...The latest bout of activity at Aim-traded independent power producer Econergy International started when the shares rose 23 per cent to 29p in trading on Thursday 10th April, following news that the Tchenguiz family trust, which
Full story...China-based solar wafer manufacturer ReneSola released full year 2007 results on 19th March. The results were solid and showed annual turnover of US$249 million, an increase of 195 per cent over the year-ago period. Net profit
Full story...The vicious upward spiral in alternative energy prices caused by soaring crude oil markets was in evidence again, as crude went above US$112 a barrel on falling US stockpiles and a weaker dollar. And behind the scenes,
Full story...Despite the existence of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and various voluntary carbon trading schemes around the world, the true extent of carbon trading remains frustratingly limited. This wider context is
Full story...No amount of favourable circumstances for wind power - not even this gusty winter just past - seem to do Aim-traded EuroTrust any good. This growing Danish-based wind power group is stuck with the burden of its history – a whole
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