Alternative Energy News Archives
Friday 24th of February, 2006
HyMotion's PHEV battery lets you plug in your hybrid ★
engadget, appx. 152 wordsHyMotion's PHEV battery allows hybrid owners to run completely on battery power, if only for a short period of time, by kicking in when the hybrid battery in the vehicle is recharging.
New tax proposal may spark wind farms ★
Journal-Advocate, appx. 851 wordsChicago-based Invenergy Wind is pushing for House Bill 1275, which would would significantly lower the start-up costs of wind farms by changing taxation on wind turbines from a business personal property tax to a production tax.
Company Officially Opens Mokai Geothermal Power Station ★★
Scoop.co.nz, appx. 577 wordsThe Tuaropaki Power Company officially opened the Mokai Geothermal Power Station extension. This will add 39 MW to the station, bringing the total output up to 94 MW.
Mokai will generate almost 2% of New Zealand's total electricity requirements, and will be in the nation's top 15 stations in terms of annual output
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Column: Be Cautious on Alternative Energy ★
AP via Yahoo! News, appx. 887 wordsCalls to be cautious with a possibly exuberant alternative energy market.
Turbine manufacturer Vestas sees shares surge on Shell bid talk ★★★
Energy Business Review, appx. 159 wordsBig news in the wind power industry as there is speculation that Shell's renewables arm is going to make a GBP2 billion bid for Denmark's Vestas, the the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines.
Of note from the story, Currently Shell has spent a relatively modest GBP1 billion on alternative energy, the Guardian newspaper has reported
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NewGen Announces Biodiesel Project Launch in Fairfield, Iowa ★
Market Wire, appx. 535 wordsNewGen Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: NWGN), through its U.S. subsidiary, ReFuel America, today announced plans to build a new biodiesel plant in Fairfield, Iowa. The facility, with an estimated capacity of 60 million gallons, will be developed by the company's previously announced joint venture with PowerSHIFT Energy and be called PowerSHIFT BioFuels of Iowa.
