Some 500 of 900 German power firms will increase prices as of Jan. 1, consumer portal Verivox said, detailing recent announcements in the retail energy market for the 40 million households it monitors. The average increase will be 7 percent and a typical household, consuming 4,000 kilowatt hours a year, will have to pay 66 euros ($87) more for annual supply, said the portal, which monitors prices and encourages switching.

Egypt announced that it will have a fully operational nuclear power plant by the end of the decade. The country’s ministry of electricity said that they plan to be ready to go on nuclear power to support Egypt’s power needs by 2019.

Các nhà giao dịch và đầu tư đánh giá tương đối tích cực các tín hiệu kinh tế Mỹ, đồng thời tin tưởng tăng trưởng sẽ tiếp tục trong năm 2011. Phiên hôm qua, chỉ số Dow Jones mất điểm, chủ yếu do cổ phiếu của American Express sụt mạnh. Tuần trước, cổ phiếu của Visa và MasterCard cũng đi xuống sau khi FED đề xuất giới hạn phí giao dịch thẻ debit. Nhưng phải sang đến đầu tuần này, các nhà đầu tư mới bắt đầu lo ngại về trường hợp của American Express.

China's measures to develop wind energy will help to save energy, reduce emissions and protect the environment and are in line with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday in response to a US complaint against China's subsidy for the wind-power sector.

Sweden and Norway have agreed the bases for a common green certificate market, energy ministers for both nations said on Wednesday. A green certificate is a tradable commodity proving that a certain electricity has been produced using a renewable source of energy, such as wind, solar or hydropower. Environmental groups hope they can boost the use of renewables.

The extended tax credits will prove a great present for thousands of workers in the renewable energy industry. President Obama signed legislation on Friday extending key tax credits supporting renewable energy projects and biofuel use.

The two countries' interest in cooperation is quite natural. The Czech Republic is preparing a lucrative tender for the completion of the nuclear power plant Temelin, near the Austrian border, in which the US firm Westinghouse has expressed interest. Westinghouse has a Japanese owner but its seat and operations are in the USA. The project is worth several hundred billion crowns. Besides Westinghouse, the other bidders are Czech-Russian consortium of Skoda JS Atomstroyexport and France's Areva.

Drying biosolids to approximately 75 percent solids, beyond the 15 to 20 percent solids typical at wastewater treatment plants, was recognized as the best way to create a workable, pathogen-free biosolid that could be used as cover at the Toland Road Landfill in Santa Paula, with potential future use as fertilizer or fuel. A biosolids drying system was developed to meet the long-term disposal needs of Ventura County in an economical, environmentally responsible manner.

A statement from the department on Saturday said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was in the country from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11, where he met senior officials from Philippine government agencies involved in the implementation of technical cooperation projects in various nuclear applications.

Innovative green transport systems such as electric tricycles, hybrid jeepneys and electric bicycles have the potential to lessen pollution caused by conventional transportation and the dependency on fossil fuels, according to Senator Edgardo J. Angara.

Hãng ô tô BYD của Trung Quốc có kế hoạch khá lớn cho lần tham gia Triển lãm ô tô Detroit sắp tới, với ba mẫu xe “xanh”, trong đó có một mẫu mà BYD khẳng định là xe thể thao việt dã hybrid sạc điện hai chế độ 4WD đầu tiên trên thế giới.

Unit 1 with the capacity of 400MW of Son La Hydropower Plant has been successfully connected to the National Electricity System at 12h45’on December 17th, 2010. Son La hydropower plant, with the installed capacity of 2400 MW, including six units, each unit with the capacity of 400MW, is the second ladder on Da River, after Lai Chau hydropower plant started on December 22th and above Hoa Binh hydropower plant.

On December 15th, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) held a ceremony reviewing the energy efficiency program in the 2006-2010 period and the implementation of Directive No. 19/2005/CT-TTg on energy conservation in production and consumption . After 5 years of nationwide deployment, with the coordination between the MOIT and the People's Committees of provinces and cities under the Central Government, the program has obtained encouraging achievements.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, December 6, 2010 that a “framework agreement” has been signed between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The agreement will allow French state-owned Areva, to sell nuclear reactors to India’s Maharashtra state complete with nuclear fuel for 25 years.

Research by energy management specialist AlertMe, which monitored an office of 50 staff over two weekends, found that leaving just one desktop PC and monitor on standby for the extended 10-day Christmas period emits 4kg of CO2 - 200 times more than 100 fairy lights.

The Community Wind Information Service will provide analysis for groups or individuals looking into the possibility of installing wind turbines at farms, industrial facilities, landfills, schools, water plants or other community sites.

Với mong muốn xây dựng một phần mềm mô phỏng toàn bộ hệ thống công trình, thiết bị và chế độ điều khiển tự động các nhà máy thủy điện, nhằm giảm giá thành công trình, nâng cao tuổi thọ của các thiết bị, đảm bảo sự làm việc ổn định của các thiết bị, TS Nguyễn Văn Sơn đã phát triển được phương pháp mô phỏng, phương pháp tính mới và cụ thể hóa thành một phần mềm giải quyết triệt để các vấn đề nêu trên.

The Tesla Roadster uses a battery called “18650,” originally designed for laptop computers. The car doesn’t use 10, or a hundred, but 6,831 of them, enough to dispatch a 56 kWh power onto the Roadster’s electric motors and wheels. This power is enough to take you from 0 to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds (depending on the car’s version).

Officials with the Robins Air Force Base Energy Office are conducting feasibility on the use of plasma arc technology, which offers environmentally safe measures for waste disposal. "The process can take nearly any material and convert it to energy," said Judith Middlebrooks, an engineer with the Energy Office. "It uses extremely high temperatures to turn products into mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Plastics are really great, but most any organic compound will work."

Statistics from the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MoME) indicate that the country spends about Ethiopian Birr 10 billion (US$800 million) annually to import petroleum products for domestic consumption. The figure, according to the MoME represents more than 90 percent of Ethiopia’s earnings from foreign trade each year. Were the country to tap some of its renewable energy potential, the energy independence it would achieve as a result, would be a boon to the economy.