Archive for 'Energy News'
Future Demand For Water Will Cause Rising Energy Prices
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
Water shortages and their direct effects on human populations have dominated the news long before global warming became a mainstream concept, especially in drought-ridden areas of Africa. As the world’s population continues to exponentially explode, rural-urban migration continues unabated and increases in personal wealth fuels greater demands and expectations, water resources will be increasingly stretched [...]
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Energy Investment: Today’s Delays are Tomorrow’s Disasters
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
As the global downturn continues, demand for energy has dropped as manufacturers reduce production or go under. Talking to energy executives in Houston this week though, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward warned of the dangers of complacency in failing to invest despite the recession.
In response to turbulent oil prices, OPEC has recently embarked on significant [...]
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Climate Conclusions - 6/2/09
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
Energy-Saving News brings you all the most interesting climate change, clean technology and energy efficiency news from all the green nooks and crannies of the World Wide Web this week.
This instalment includes an iPhone and iPod charger than uses solar power, creating biofuel from airport user’s breath, and a look at which countries are most [...]
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UK Hurtling Towards Energy Shortage Shutdown
Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
The United Kingdom is still facing a massive energy generation gap in the next decade and the Government is failing to properly address the issue, according to a top industry executive.
In a column in the Financial Times, Andrew Duff - chief executive of RWE NPower, one of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers - outlined some [...]
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Oil Supply Cuts: The Winners & Losers
Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
As energy shortages drive oil prices upwards once more, developing nations stand to gain and lose the most.
After a series of falls in the price of crude oil, OPEC has been slashing production to try to stabilise - and then substantially increase - the price once more, with US agency predictions expecting oil prices [...]
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Climate Conclusions: 30/01/09
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Ross.
Somar International’s pick of this week’s top energy and climate news.
Monday:
BBC - New evidence on Antartic warming
Tuesday:
BBC - Emporer Penguins face extinction
The Guardian - Schnitzel off the menu as Germans are told to stop eating meat
CNN - Obama to let states set auto emission rules
The Times Online - Think Tank: Redesign our wind turbines
Wednesday:
NOAA - [...]
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LED Lighting: Guiding Light Or False Dawn?
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Ross.
As the downward spiral in the world economy forces companies to look to protect their profits and CO2 targets translate into restrictive corporate financial penalties, a range of new technologies and products from the burgeoning green and clean technology sectors promise substantial savings in energy, money and carbon emissions. One such technology competing for the [...]
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Oil Prices To Return To $100 A Barrel By End Of 2009
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Ross.
Prices of crude oil may rise back up to $100 a barrel this year despite the drop in demand brought on by the current economic downturn. This was the projection from a monthly report released yesterday by the Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), based on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fully implementing [...]
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Leisure centre’s ‘green’ light for energy savings
Posted on 22. Aug, 2008 by admin.
A Derbyshire leisure centre has got its electricity bill and Carbon Footprint in trim after equipping its sports hall with a state-of-the-art, energy saving lighting system.
Dim, traditional florescent lamps at Green Bank Leisure Centre, Swadlincote, left some badminton, five-a-side and basketball players struggling to see court markings.
But members of the South Derbyshire District Council facility [...]
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