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Daily: British prompt gas prices decline as supplies rise and exports fall
Brent futures declined below $113 per barrel on Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report expected to indicate a stronger economic outlook for the world's largest oil consumer and as the United States considered a release of emergency oil reserves, potentially much larger than the last one.
read more... 07/09/2012
USA to become third largest photovoltaic market in 2012
The U.S. photovoltaic market registered a considerably increase in the first six months of 2012 reaching 1.7 GW and it is expected that will reach roughly 4.3 GW for all the 2012, according to IMS Research. Also IMS revealed that the U.S. market has grown by more than 120%, while in the same period installations reached only 750 MW last year.
read more... 07/09/2012
EU launches antidumping investigation on Chinese solar panel exporters
The European Union launched an anti-dumping investigation to find out whether Chinese companies have been exporting solar panels for less than it costs to manufacture them.
read more... 07/09/2012
Daily: UK prompt gas at a four-month high on tight supply
Brent crude futures rose above $113 per barrel on Thursday on investors’ hopes that the European Central Bank (ECB) will reveal measures showing the new tactics how to tackle the euro zone’s debt crisis at a meeting later in the day.
read more... 06/09/2012
France to face a gap in power generating capacity
The grid operator Reseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) announced that in three years France will face a gap in power generating capacity due to the closure of two nuclear reactors and some fossil fuel power plants. In his report RTE added that power will be assured until 2015 when as much as 7.6 GW of coal and heating fuel-fired power plants may be turned-off.
read more... 06/09/2012