Executives of leading photovoltaic (PV) technology makers in Taiwan – the second largest manufacturer of PV cells in the world – announced a variety of new developments this week at a press conference at the Solar Power International 2013 exhibition in Chicago.  The event was organized by the Bureau of [...]

Statoil recommends building a new drilling and processing platform on the Snorre field in the North Sea to extract maximum remaining reserves. Together with Petoro and the other licence partners, Statoil has worked hard to find a good solution for extending the life of the field to 2040. A thorough [...]

A host of construction bosses have written to David Cameron urging him to reconsider plans to cut green levies on energy bills. The letter organsied by the UK Green Building Council has been signed by the bosses of Carillion, Keepmoat, Willmott Dixon, Barratt, H+H, Knauf, Saint Gobain and Quintain. The [...]

It's an exciting time for the solar industry. Deployment is up sharply — photovoltaics (PV) alone have seen 73 percent annual growth, on average, from 2000 through 2012, and costs are down dramatically over that same period. And now, storage technologies are poised for similar growth and cost-reduction trajectories as [...]

The stormy weather across southern England and Wales has been causing havoc with rail services. Many services across the country are cancelled and there have been more than 100 fallen trees on lines. Network Rail said the damage was “worse than expected” and Robin Gisby, managing director of network operations, [...]

Today, Eni Norge is opening its new operations centre in Hammerfest – an event which marks a further expansion of the company’s activities in northern Norway Eni Norge consolidates its position in the Barents Sea: “Strategically, northern Norway and the Barents Sea are key areas for Eni Norge”, says Managing [...]

The number of construction companies facing “critical” financial problems has nearly halved during the last year. The latest Begbies Traynor Red Flag Alert shows that 494 construction companies were facing financial crisis during the third quarter of 2013 – compared to 855 in the same period last year. The average [...]

Cape Wind Associates LLC, the developer seeking to build the first U.S. offshore wind farm, expects to resolve by year-end the last lawsuits delaying the project, clearing the way for construction to begin before a key tax credit expires this year. Two legal appeals remain after the company won 13 [...]

Building an alternative to HS2 would require 14 years of weekend route closures on the busiest north-south lines, a new report from Network Rail and Atkins has warned. Improving the existing main lines instead – East Coast, Midland, and West Coast – would cost £20bn but could increase journey times, [...]

ConocoPhillips today announced first oil production from the Ekofisk South development project in the Norwegian North Sea on Oct. 25. “The Ekofisk South project startup represents an important milestone for ConocoPhillips,” said Matt Fox, executive vice president, Exploration and Production. “This is the first of several new major project startups that [...]

Balfour Beatty has clinched contracts for two coastal defence jobs for Blackpool and Wyre councils in the North West. The £20m Anchorsholme Scheme for Blackpool Council and the £53m Rossall Scheme for Wyre Council will replace over 2.9km of the original 1930′s seawalls as part of the promenade renewal and [...]

Johannesburg Water SOC Ltd., which provides sanitation to South Africa’s biggest city, plans to expand power capacity from a biogas plant almost fourfold, cutting reliance on electricity from the state utility. The combined heat and power generation plant at the Northern waste water treatment works uses sewage sludge and has [...]