LONDON, ENGLAND - The British government promised a multi-million pound investment to try to jump-start the market for environmentally friendly electric cars after a year of tumbling sales. The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Research into producing electricity from low-emission coal and nuclear plants saw big funding boosts in the 2009 budget request submitted by the U.S. Energy Department recently, ...

Zurich, Switzerland – - Zurich, Switzerland – ABB, a power and automation technology group, has agreed to acquire Tropos Networks Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company that develops and markets ...

LIBERTY LAKE, WASHINGTON - Itron announced it has received an order from Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), for 25,000 SENTINEL solid-state electricity meters. CFE is Mexico’s largest ...

PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY - The IEEE has launched work on a new standard, IEEE PC37.20.8 "Standard for Metal-Enclosed Low-Voltage (3200V and Below) Direct Current Power Circuit Breaker Switchgear for ...

- The Utilities Telecom Council is hoping recent moves by Industry Canada, Canada's equivalent to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in allocating a block of spectrum nationwide for the smart ...

LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK - 'Synergy savings' with an asterisk. How do you want your synergy savings? That's a question the Long Island Power Authority is deciding now that National Grid has completed the ...

NORTHERN ONTARIO - Hydro One crews are trying to restore power to more than 18,000 customers in the Huntsville region and north through Sudbury and North Bay. The utility says about 2,800 outages hit ...

BRAZIL - Electricity captured from the air could be used for recharging electric cars, Brazilian scientists say. The team is working on developing special panels to capture atmospheric electricity.

- New York, Massachusetts and nine other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have agreed to create a low carbon fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gases. Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs ...

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SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK - Food banks in Saint John won't be getting a break on power rates this winter from Saint John Energy. Saint John Common Council had requested a subsidy or discount on power ...