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Yingli Green Energy Signs Cooperation Agreement
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") module manufacturer in the world, also known as "Yingli Solar", today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited ("Yingli China") has signed a cooperation agreement (the "Agreement") with Shanghai Sailing Capital Management Co., Ltd., the manager...
Energy Efficiency
- Apr 16, 2014
RWE Looks to Profits Recovery Amid Energy Market Upheaval
RWE, Germany's second-biggest power supplier, expects earnings to stabilise from next year after a difficult time in 2014, its chief executive Peter Terium said on Wednesday.
"We do not expect the dramatic trends of recent years to continue to quite the same extent," he said, referring to growth of renewable energy.
On a wider front, the global energy sector is in a state of upheaval owing largely to the shale energy boom in North America which has driven down the price ...
Natural Gas & LNG
- Apr 16, 2014
Pressure Pumping Market worth $116.15 Bn by 2018
The pressure pumping market is likely to grow reasonably in the upcoming years. The long-term drivers of the pressure pumping market are well known. The relentless depletion of onshore and shallow water fields has compelled oil companies to focus on deep water and unconventional onshore areas where various pressure pumping services are required in order to produce hydrocarbons.
The major drivers for the pressure pumping market are increase in the production rate, new additions to recovera...
Natural Gas & LNG
- Apr 16, 2014
NREL Unlocking Secrets of New Solar Material
The band gap of perovskites can be adjusted by changing their compositions to access different parts of the sun's spectrum.
A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than almost anything researchers have seen before—and it is generating optimism that a less expensive way of using sunlight to generate electricity may be in our planet's future.
Researchers at t...
Solar
- Apr 15, 2014
Germany's Rwe to Supply Gas to Crisis-hit Ukraine
RWE, Germany's second-biggest power supplier, said on Tuesday it will start gas deliveries to Ukraine as Russia threatens to cut off supplies to Kiev.
"RWE -- via its trading subsidiary RWE Supply & Trading -- is the first European supplier to commence gas deliveries to the Ukraine in 2014," the German group said in a statement.
The deliveries are part of an existing five-year framework agreement -- signed in May 2012 -- that allows RWE to ship up 10 billion cubic me...
Oil and Gas
- Apr 15, 2014
Technip Heerema Alliance Wins Major Kaombo Subsea Contract Offshore Angola
The consortium, comprising Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors (Heerema), was awarded a major lump-sum contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI) and pre-commissioning for the SURF (subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines) part of the Kaombo project, located in Block 32 offshore Angola in water depths up to 2,000 meters. The contract is valued at approximately USD 3.5 billion with a Technip share of around 55% and a Heerema share of...
Oil and Gas
- Apr 16, 2014
RD&D Cooperative Agreement for American Centrifuge Program Extended
USEC, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have agreed to extend the research, development and demonstration (RD&D) program for the American Centrifuge uranium enrichment technology through April 30 at no additional cost to the U.S. government as discussions continue between USEC and the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Federal funding for the highly successful centrifuge RD&D program was scheduled to expire April 15. Prudent management of existing program fund...
Power Generation
- General News - Apr 15, 2014
Universal Bioenergy's Energy Completes $2.7 Mn Monthly Gas Transaction
Universal Bioenergy, a publicly traded independent diversified energy company that markets and distributes natural gas, propane, petroleum and coal, announced that its subsidiary, NDR Energy Group, has just completed one of the earliest monthly natural gas transactions in company history.
The April transaction was for the sale of natural gas to one of NDR's core customers and one of the largest utilities in the US. The transaction, pending confirmations, has an estimated sales pr...
Oil and Gas
- Exploration, General News, Utilities - Apr 15, 2014
