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Britain awards new shale gas licences for first time in seven years
Britain awards shale gas exploration licences for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, offering new sites to firms comprising IGas and France's GDF Suez.
read more... 20/08/2015
Germany: RWE’s power-to-gas plant opens
RWE’s power-to-gas plant has officially been opened in Ibbenbüren, Germany. It is an energy storage technology which connects the supply of local power, natural gas and district heating.
read more... 19/08/2015
Total might begin Bulgaria offshore drill in early 2016
French oil company Total declared on Monday it was on the way to begin drilling for oil and gas at an exploration location off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast early next year.
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Phoenix Solar will construct PV power plant of 6.9 MWp in Turkey
Phoenix Solar AG (Sulzemoos, Germany), an international photovoltaic system integrator, and its associate Asunim Yenilenebilir Enerji Teknolojileri Ins. Muh. San. Tic. Ltd. Sti. (Ankara, Turkey), a member of the Asunim group, have been jointly granted an order by a Turkish conglomerate to construct an array of six photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 6.9 MWp in the surroundings of the city of Kayseri in central Anatolia, as declared by Phoenix Solar in a press release.
read more... 19/08/2015
Daily: European spot electricity prices jump on lower wind output in Germany, higher electricity demand in France
Crude oil prices increased on Tuesday, with WTI crude soaring as much as 2 percent, spurred by optimistic economic figures and bets for weaker crude inventories in the United States, the largest oil consumer in the world. WTI crude rose by 75 cents to settle at $42.62 a barrel. Brent, the London-traded global benchmark for oil, boosted 7 cents to settle at $48.81, snapping a three-day loss. Brent declined initially on Tuesday morning after a stock market collapse in China, the No. 2 oil consumer.
read more... 19/08/2015