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Majority of local people in favour of cleaner coal at Kingsnorth

Tags: wind power, wave power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, climate change, carbon, Tagged: 04 September 2008
An Ipsos MORI survey organised by energy company E.ON has shown that a majority of people who live near the Kingsnorth site are in favour of a new cleaner coal-fired power station at the site. The survey showed that 57% of the local population were in favour of E.ON's plans for...

China Recycling Wins 7-MW Waste-to-Energy Project

Tags: gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) announced that it has won a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd. at a facility in Cangzhou City, China.

Santa Clara University Purchases Over 11 Million Kilowatt-Hours of Clean Renewable Energy

Tags: wind power, renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
Santa Clara University’s electricity just got a little greener. The University’s purchase of 11,256 megawatt hours of renewable energy, equal to the annual output of three and a half large-scale wind turbines, represents over one third of the University’s annual electricity use....

Beacon Power Tests Megawatt of Flywheel Storage

Tags: electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops products and services to support electricity grid operation, announced that it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power flywheels that when operated together can absorb and supply a full megawatt (MW...

West Haven Commits to Clean Energy

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
Rocky Hill, Conn., September 23, 2008 – The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that the city of West Haven, Conn., has joined the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program by committing to purchase at least 20% of its electricity for municipal facilitie...

Half of Global Electricity To Come From Renewables IEA Says

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
Nearly 50% of global electricity supplies must come from renewable energy sources in order to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its latest study, “Deploying Renewables: Principles for Effective Policies.”

Town of Haddam Commits to Clean Energy

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 11 October 2008
Rocky Hill, Conn., October 2, 2008 – The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that the town of Haddam, Conn., has joined the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program by committing to purchase at least 20% of its electricity for municipal facilities from clean,...

E.ON helps to paint the town red in Workington with 5-a-side football tournament

Tags: wind power, wave power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
E.ON will be celebrating Workington's ‘Paint the Town Red' day on Saturday (AUG 30) by holding a five-a-side football tournament in conjunction with the West Cumbria Police Safety Department. The tournament will be for under-10s and up to under-14s boys' and girls' teams, and w...

E.ON replacing Blyth offshore wind farm power cable

Tags: wind power, wave power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
E.ON, one of the country's leading green generators, is on the verge of completing the installation of an armoured power cable that will get the UK's first offshore wind farm producing power again. Blyth offshore wind farm has been out of action from some time after the underse...

E.ON launches Auchencorth wind farm appeal

Tags: wind power, wave power, renewable, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, climate change, Tagged: 04 September 2008
E.ON has announced that it is appealing against the refusal of Midlothian Council to grant planning permission for a wind farm of up to 45MW at Auchencorth Moss. The initial planning application for the construction of 18 wind turbines on the site south of Penicuik was...

E.ON announces plans to build one of UK’s largest biomass power stations at Port of Bristol

Tags: wind power, wave power, renewable, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, carbon, Tagged: 04 September 2008
E.ON, one of the country's leading green generators, has today (TUES) announced plans to invest around £300m in a biomass power station at the Port of Bristol. At 150MW, the proposed Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant would generate enough power for more than 200,000 homes by...

E.ON helps Cumbrian primary school go green

Tags: wind power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy saving, energy, electricity, carbon, Tagged: 04 September 2008
Energy company E.ON has given a £5,700 grant under its SOURCE community initiative towards the cost of installing an air source heat pump at Stoneraise Community Primary School in Durdar, Carlisle. The cash will be used to help the school pay for an air source heat pump (ASHP)...

E.ON helps Hertfordshire conservation charity harness the power of water

Tags: wind power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
Leading energy company E.ON has given a £30,000 grant under its SOURCE community initiative towards the cost of installing a water turbine which generates electricity at the Apsley Paper Trail in Hemel Hempstead. The Apsley Paper Trail is an education and conservation charity w...

E.ON announces price rise for residential customers

Tags: gas, energy saving, energy, electricity, companies, carbon, british gas, Tagged: 04 September 2008
Electricity prices to rise by 16%, gas prices by 26% Over a quarter of customers unaffected Spend to assist most vulnerable customers doubled Prepayment meter customers to pay same price as E.ON standard prices E.ON has today (THURSDAY) become the latest energy supplier to r...

Why Switch Gas and Electricity Suppliers?

Tags: switch gas, switch, renewable, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 17 September 2008
Switching energy suppliers through Switchwise.com is very simple and hassle-free. Doing a gas and electricity price comparison and completing the online application form take just a few minutes. If you have recent energy bills to hand that will assist you in finding the mo...

E.ON completes acquisision of ABB's highways lighting business

Tags: wind power, renewable, powergen, green energy uk, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
E.ON, one of the UK's leading power and gas companies, has today announced it has completed the acquisition of ABB's highways lighting business, including ABB's interests in the Lighting for Staffordshire Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project¹. The acquisition will be integra...

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Tags: switch gas, switch, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
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How to Switch Suppliers

Tags: switch gas, switch, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 01 September 2008
1. First, carry out a price comparison to see how your existing tariff compares. Use the SwitchWise.com Comparison Service by entering your postcode, existing gas and electricity suppliers, and amounts paid, to obtain a complete list of prices available in your region. ...

E.ON invites locals for a bat-tastic night time walk at Ironbridge Power Station

Tags: powergen, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
What goes bump in the night? Well if you're a visitor at Buildwas Abbey this Tuesday evening it could very well be a bat, thanks to E.ON's Ironbridge Power Station and its annual look at the Buildwas bat colony. Buildwas Abbey has been home to the bat, the only true flying mamm...

Ofgem to publish energy findings

Tags: ofgem, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 08 October 2008
Energy regulator Ofgem is to publish the findings of a major inquiry into gas and electricity prices.

Wave Energy To Power Portugal

Tags: wave power, energy, electricity, Tagged: 25 September 2008
The launch of the Agucadoura project, one of the first commercial wave power farms has taken place in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal. The first phase project will initially generate 2.25 megawatts (MW) of electricity using three Pelamis Wave Energy Converters (PWEC), which are a semi-...

Suzlon Commits US $5B to Renewable Energy

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 25 September 2008
Suzlon Green Power Ltd. announced a commitment to bring 3,500 megawatts (MW) of electricity to nearly 10 million people with the development of US $5 billion in renewable energy assets over five years, primarily in India and China.

E.ON volunteers go back to school in Derbyshire

Tags: gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
A group of 80 volunteers from E.ON's Business Services Finance team recently got their hands dirty when they spent a week transforming the school grounds at Christ the King Catholic Primary School in Alfreton. Up to 18 volunteers were on site each day during the week-long team...

E.ON volunteers help to encourage Coventry kids to go to school

Tags: gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
A group of 12 eager staff from E.ON's Coventry headquarters have helped to increase student attendance and punctuality at Limbrick Wood Primary School in Tile Hill. The team decided to help out at the request of the school's Head Teacher by creating an ‘attendance tree', which...

E.ON volunteers get their green thumbs out to help Retford school

Tags: renewable, gas, energy, electricity, Tagged: 04 September 2008
A group of nine volunteers from E.ON's Killingholme and Cottam power stations recently got their hands dirty when they spent two days transforming the school grounds at Ordsall Primary School in Retford. The green-fingered engineers got stuck into a variety of activities includ...

Canadian Business Online: OEB Issues 2008 Electricity Distribution Rate Order for Brantford Power Inc.

Tags: energy, electricity, Tagged: 30 August 2008
Today the Ontario Energy Board (the Board) issued a Rate Order for a Decision on a 2008 electricity distribution rate application for Brantford ...

East Hampton Commits to Clean Energy

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 25 September 2008
Rocky Hill, Conn., September 24, 2008 – The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that the town of East Hampton, Conn., has joined the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program by committing to purchase at least 20% of its electricity for municipal facilit...

AREVA & Duke Energy Develop Biomass Plants

Tags: renewable, energy, electricity, Tagged: 25 September 2008
AREVA and Duke Energy announced the formation of ADAGE, a joint venture that will be dedicated to the development of green biopower energy solutions for U.S. electricity customers. ADAGE will facilitate the development of biopower plants that will use wood waste to produce electr...

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