March 20, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, After reaching and the absence of a late-year influx of volumes from Argentina were two main factors in this decline. The strongest drivers of the resurgence in U.S. biomass-based diesel demand since 2012 have been increasing RFS targets and the on-again, off-again biodiesel tax credit. Biodiesel and […]
Pretoria — Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed Business Leadership South Africa’s commitment to help government address the difficulties facing Eskom. “Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed Business Leadership South Africa’s commitment to help government address the difficulties arising from the constrained supply of electricity in the country and the issues facing Eskom,” said the […]
By Abdoulie Nyockeh The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in partnership with GEF/UNIDO 4 Project, Wednesday convened a daylong forum on the theme: “Supporting sustainable small and medium enterprises through renewable energy.” The GEF/UNIDO 4Project would continue to promote the scaling up of investment in renewable energy through promotion and awareness raising activities, […]
March 19, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Petroleum and Other Liquids and Short-Term Energy Outlook Note: U.S. crude oil inventories exclude Strategic Petroleum Reserves. December 2014 to February 2015 are estimates. With lower U.S. refinery runs and increases in domestic crude oil production, U.S. commercial crude oil inventories at the end of February provided […]
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The Minister for Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has launched the Rural LPG Promotion Programme with the distribution of 5,000 pieces of 6 kilogramme cylinders and cooking stoves at Axim in the Nzema East District of the Western Region. The Rural LPG Promotion Programme was first launched at Garu-Tempane in the Upper East Region in November […]
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One of the more surprising things that we learned at the beginning of the research into high pressure waterjet action was how quickly a jet will penetrate to almost full depth of penetration, and how slowly it will cut deeper after that. It is a lesson that often escapes even those who work with the […]
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March 17, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Republished March 17, 2015, 10:00 a.m., text was modified to clarify content. EIA’s most recent . The DPR estimates, which were issued on March 9 and cover the months of March and April, include the first projected declines in crude oil production in these regions since publication […]
Nairobi — Two contracts have been signed by the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) for the implementation of the Olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu electricity transmission project writes JOSEPH BURITE. The new 400kV line will bring geothermal energy from the increased capacity at Olkaria to western Kenya. Related Topics Kenya: Mandera Governor, MPs Demand County… Kenya: Churches’ Claims […]
March 16, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly and Short-Term Energy Outlook Residential electricity customers in most areas of the country experienced large increases in retail electricity prices during 2014, with the average U.S. residential price increasing 3.1% over the previous year. The increase represents the highest annual growth rate since 2008. […]
Cairo — Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail signed an energy deal worth $ 12 billion (91.5 billion Egyptian pounds) with energy firm British Petroleum (BP) on Saturday. Ismail was cited by Egyptian state news agency MENA as saying that the deal is set to provide Egypt with a quarter of local energy production and will […]
March 13, 2015 Source: EIA, Note: LIHEAP is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. EIA has updated a , covering the 2013 fiscal year (FY). The most recent prior report reviewed subsidies in FY 2010, at or near the height of spending related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (more commonly […]
analysis By Patrick Bond Intersectionality missing-in-action at Cape Town’s Alternative Mining Indaba Can Africans with dot-connecting talents now more forcefully consider an eco-socialist model? We need to recover the socialist traditions of Fanon, Lumumba, Cabral, Rodney, Ruth First, Sankara and Chris Hani; and to these add environmentalist, feminist and other intersectional activisms. Or perish. Related […]
