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Coal mine gas-fired generation company Alkane Energy has moved the focus of its expansion from the UK to Germany, where it can get nearly three times the price for its [...]

It opened in 1958, designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- and has been praised as one of the most remarkable structures of the 20th century. Almost [...]

Spanish industrial and aeronautics firm Gamesa is to spend e95 million (£60.2 million) to build wind parks in the province of Zamora, northwest Spain, between 2003 and 2005, a Gamesa [...]

Confirmation of a huge new IMF loan for Brazil and the IMF's decision to give Argentina more time to repay an existing credit will give both economies some breathing space. [...]

Struggling media giant Vivendi Universal (VU) has said its water arm, Vivendi Environnement (VE), is not for sale despite moves by VE's bondholders to edge further away from VU. Bondholders [...]

by Trevor Dooley A nervous stock market ran away from BG group on news of a touch of damp in the tubes last week. And the turmoil that is telecoms [...]

German multi-utility Eon has exercised its option to sell 103 million Orange shares at e9.25 (599p) a share, raising some e950 million. Orange's shares closed at e5.57 on the day [...]

By Andrew Swallow CALLS for bio-fuels to be given the duty-break needed to launch the industry have been stepped up following last week's announcement of a further [pound]15.5m of funding […]

The UK gas company Centrica has purchased two UK power plants for $250 million. The two plants, both in East Anglia, have a combined generating capacity of 705 MW. Under [...]

The International Finance Corp (IFC) has signed an agreement with the Peak Pacific Investment Corp to help fund the latter's investments in combined heat and power (CHP) projects in China. [...]

Fund seeks out emerging technology plays in the energy sector If you are interested in the energy sector in general and in alternative energy segment in particular, you may be […]

The detailed feasibility report on South Africa's proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is nearing completion and is due to be considered by the project's stakeholders over the next few [...]

E.ON, of Germany, is to increase its stake in the western Bohemian gas distributor, ZCP, to a blocking minority of 43.9%. It is buying 27.4% from the Ruhrgas subsidiary, Ferngas [...]

Calpine has entered the UK power market with the purchase of the 1,200 MW gas-fired Saltend plant, near Hull in Yorkshire. The acquisition for 560 million [pounds sterling] ($800 million) [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO -- State oil company Petrobras plans to spend $1 billion on new gas-fired thermal power plants by 2004. The move is part of the company's efforts to [...]

International Power has purchased the Staffordshire-based Rugeley power station from TXU Europe for $282 million. Under the deal, TXU will provide coal for the 1000 MW plant and purchase its [...]

Opportunity Knocks With technology markets tanking, what's the next big thing? Nine years ago, Nancy Floyd decided to create a venture-capital fund to invest in energy-related start-ups. She visited 197 [...]

In sharp contrast to what's happened to telecom stocks in recent months, energy company values are still surprisingly high. Ironically, this is partially a result of the California power crisis. [...]

E. ON, THE GERMAN electricity group, may be forced to sell its 65 percent share in Degussa more quickly than initially expected. The company announced earlier this month its intention [...]

The Port of Port Arthur, Texas, and its partner, Sabine Power I, plan to develop one of the world's largest petroleum coke gasification facilities and related electrical power generation in [...]

E.on Energie AG, which has had a small holding in the Swedish company Sydkraft for some years, has recently enlarged its holding to 29.4 percent of the shares and 42.8 [...]

Wisconsin Electric Power Co. will purchase 25.5 megawatts of power from a wind farm being developed in Iowa County by FPL Energy. The wind farm is permitted for 30 megawatts. [...]

Advent Networks Inc. has closed on $22.6 million in second-round funding led by its first customer -- UtiliCorp United Inc. The funding ties the knot between Advent, an Austin-based technology [...]

A wholly owned subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. has completed the purchase of an additional 8.38 percent ownership interest in the Dixie Pipeline Co. from an affiliate of Conoco [...]

Revenue: $2.42 billion Earnings: $382.6 million 52-week high: $37.75 52-week low: $25.19 Oct. 31 close: $30.31 POWER PLAY Alliant Energy Corp. was formed in April 1998 with the merger of [...]

An Alliant Energy Corp subsidiary, Alliant Energy Resources Inc, has made a $10 million investment in the Nth Power Technologies fund II, a venture capital fund that provides money for [...]

Peco Energy of the US is to support the pebble bed modular high temperature reactor development project being spearheaded by South African utility Eskom. Peco will invest around Rd5O million [...]

Peco Energy Co. of Philadelphia agreed to purchase 49.9 percent of the North American businesses of Sithe Energies for $682 million. The deal is expected to close, by the fourth [...]

HORSHAM -- Motorola Inc.'s Broadband Communications Sector and Philadelphia-based Peco Energy Co.'s Exelon Capital Partners have teamed with five other companies to invest $15.2 million in MediaStation Inc. MediaStation, which [...]

A year after proposals were first invited, the consortium headed by France's TotalFinaElf and including Belgium's Tractebel has been officially declared the winner of the Taweelak A-1 project. TotalFinaElf said [...]

Everest Connections Corp., a communications company that hopes to provide cable, telephone and Internet services to consumers and small businesses, was expected to break ground on its 11,000-mile network this [...]

It took only a couple of meeting before Joseph Otis Minott got what he was after: A pledge from Peco Energy Co. to invest more than $20 million in renewable [...]

In a transaction that sets the stage for future privatizations in Poland's electric power sector, Hunton & Williams represented Belgium-based Tractebel in the acquisition of a 25% stake in the [...]

The venture capital arm of Wisconsin Energy Corp. is pulling the plug on Thor Technology Corp., Menomonee Falls, after pouring more than $15 million of development money into the company [...]

Houston-based Quanta Services Inc. landed a contract last week worth $400 million to install a broadband communications network in the Kansas City, Mo., area. At the same time, the firm's [...]

We don't have to tell you that it's a tough market. Nor that only a true glutton for punishment would dare venture to guess where we go from here. Times [...]

GreenMountain.com (www.GreenMountain.com), which claims to be a provider of environmentally cleaner energy, has entered into an agreement under which BP Amoco, and others will invest up to $100 million to [...]

Looking beyond information technology and even a reemerging biotech field, venture capitalists and buyout groups are returning to a long-forgotten favorite: energy investments. Nth Power of San Francisco is nearing [...]

New York-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. will invest $550 million in DPL Inc., parent of Dayton Power and Light Co., and will put two directors on DPL's board. The [...]

PARIS -- Figures made public Tuesday show that Groupe Arnault and utility giant Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux each own 18 percent of the consortium they formed to bid on the [...]

Based on growth in oil and gas production, reforms in electricity and gas markets, and the effects of those reforms on independent power production (IPP) capacity, the average Global Energy [...]

EPC has financial autonomy The government-owned Electric Power Corporation (EPC) has been involved in major new investment on both the main islands. The EPC now has full financial autonomy and [...]

* New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. has announced a five-year, $9.8 billion capital investment plan that it hopes will lead to superior customer service and fuel growth in its power development [...]

* US energy group Enron is to build a $175m private power plant in Croatia to help the country meet increasing demand. The project will be the first large-scale US [...]