EIN News: Benelux Energy News

Itron gets trio of new orders from utilities

25 Jul 2008 09:51 GMT

... signed a contract to provide Detroit-based DTE Energy with advanced metering technology to automate a ... to automate a total of 2.6 million electric meters and 700,000 gas meters over the ... for the U.S. market, and its Brussels, Belgium-based Actaris subsidiary makes the top-selling water meter ...

CHRONOLOGY-The ups and downs of bid target British Energy

25 Jul 2008 08:07 GMT

... ups and downs of bid target British Energy has agreed to be taken over by ... it may face insolvency because of low power prices. Seeks state support. September 9, 2002 ... fall 65 percent. October 1, 2002 - Belgium complains to European Commission over UK aid ...

EU eyes 'supergrid' to harness Saharan sun

25 Jul 2008 07:09 GMT

... Jaeger-Walden, who heads the EU's Institute for Energy in the Netherlands. The idea is based on the construction ... to grids to increase their market share. Luxembourg Green MEP Claude Turmes, Parliament's rapporteur on ...

'The happiest music on Earth'

25 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT

... the organ, which are being carved in Belgium. A figure of a bandmaster will stand ... the steam fairs in England, these machines power tractors, rock crushers and threshers, as well ... organs. The Diamond Jubilee now runs on electricity, and can plug into an electrical outlet ...

Indian PM celebrates vote win, says millions will benefit

25 Jul 2008 04:46 GMT

... markets could see follow-up buying," said Andrew Holland, head of strategic risk group, DSP Merrill ... with increased ownership of air conditioners, and power cuts are frequent -- with businesses large ... this month to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency for approval, and is expected to ...

Going Nuclear

25 Jul 2008 04:40 GMT

... carbon-free source that truly could ease Americas energy woes: nuclear power. That is not entirely ... the environmental Left, the efficiency of nuclear power has long been an inconvenient truth. The ... for other countries include 55 percent in Belgium, 50 percent in Sweden, 41 percent in ...

The Shortwave Report 7/25/08 Listen Globally

25 Jul 2008 03:29 GMT

... and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. Dear Radio Friend, The ... clearing the way to finalize a controversial nuclear energy deal with the US. The Arab League ...

Coal or Kiwi: Solid Energy at it again

25 Jul 2008 02:31 GMT

... Government-owned coal company Solid Energy. Origin Energy Resources (Kupe) Limited, on behalf of the ... fish with a teaspoon.

Bryan Frith: Stokes unrelenting on WAN

25 Jul 2008 01:49 GMT

... for its $13 billion bid for Origin Energy, which means that it would have been ... it had received a report from the Netherlands from Sewell & Associates which estimated that its 3P coal seam gas reserves had more than doubled, ...

Stokes unrelenting on WAN

25 Jul 2008 01:49 GMT

Bethlehem hydro project roars towards completion

25 Jul 2008 01:15 GMT

... will develop, own and operate the 7-MW hydropower plant, and has contracted NuPlanet to manage ... project on its behalf. As a renewable energy power producer, Bethlehem Hydro will cut back ... Africa and neighbouring countries. Based in the Netherlands, NuPlanet develops and manages wind energy and ...

Fortress Iran is Virtually Impregnable to a Successful Invasion

24 Jul 2008 23:27 GMT

... the combined territories of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal - Western Europe. Iran ... this has been the limit on Persian/Iranian power ever since. Recreating a relationship with the ...

A Sedan Fueled By the Future

24 Jul 2008 22:56 GMT

... to be driven through the Lincoln or Holland Tunnels or on the lower level of ... the cabin. Yet aside from billboard-size Clean Energy logos on the sides, little about the ... me switch instantly from gas to hydrogen power and back again, even while the car ...

Enerflex Systems Income Fund Announces Second Quarter 2008 Conference Call & Webcast Advisory

24 Jul 2008 21:08 GMT

... or lease, hydrocarbon production and processing facilities, electrical, instrumentation and controls services and a comprehensive ... and joint-ventures operate in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, Pakistan, the United ... Communications (403) 720-4308 (403) 720-4385 (FAX) INDUSTRY: Energy and Utilities - Equipment, Energy and Utilities ...

Gaz de France, Suez merger finalized

24 Jul 2008 20:45 GMT

... one of the largest providers of electric power and natural gas in Europe and its ... A workforce of 200,000134,000 of them in energy and energy servicesand combined sales of €74.3 ... increase its regasification capacity in France and Belgium to 44 billion cu m by 2013 ...