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Alabama Nuclear Unit Offline Due to Lack of Backup Diesel Generators

...The Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Station in Columbia, Alabama, was forced to take Unit 1 offline Tuesday, plant personnel confirmed Wednesday morning....
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

Toyota Changes Gears on U.S. Production Strategy

...Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota City, Japan) (NYSE:TM) has shifted its manufacturing plans in the United States to cope with escalating fuel costs....
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Automotive

Solutia Continues to Focus on Core Business Units

...Since emerging from bankruptcy less than a year ago, Solutia Incorporated (NYSE:SOA) (St. Louis, Missouri) has maintained its focus and investment plans on ......
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Chemical Processing

China's Power Consumption Increases 11.67% in First Half of 2008

...From January to June 2008, China's overall social power consumption reached about 1.69 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an increase of ......
FREE     Table Showing 2008 Energy Consumption per Unit of GDP in China Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

India Targets 10,500 Megawatts of Installed Wind Power Capacity by 2012

...In the span of six months, the Directorate of Industries of the western Indian state of Maharashtra has given its consent for land acquisition for wind power......
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Could Help Homes and Small Businesses Go Green

...Rising costs associated with fossil fuels and the destabilization of greenhouse gases have the world looking for alternative energy sources, and many......
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

Heinz Starts Construction on $105 Million Frozen-Food Facility in South Carolina

...H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has started construction on a state-of-the-art frozen-food facility in Florence, South Carolina....
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Food & Beverage

Xcel Subsidiary Plans Environmental Upgrades at 2,190-Megawatt Minnesota Plant

...Northern States Power Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a subsidiary of Xcel Energy Incorporated (NYSE:XEL) (Minneapolis, Minnesota), is expecting approval......
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

Construction of Pipoca Hydropower Project in Brazil to Begin in October

...The Pipoca hydropower project in Minas Gerais, Brazil, will begin construction in October after various delays. In February 2007, the renewable power producer ......
PREMIUM       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

France's Areva Forges Russian Alliance in Nuclear Production Supply Chain

...One of the international players best positioned to ride the wave of the new nuclear power plant building surge is Areva (EPA:CPI) (Paris)....
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

NMDC and Spice International Joint Venture Set to Acquire Two Iron Ore Mines in Armenia

...NMDC Spice International, a 50:50 joint venture formed between state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation (BOM:526371) (NMDC) (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) and......
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Metals & Minerals

Malaysia's MMC Expanding Middle East Scope with Power Project in United Arab Emirates

...Companies belonging to Malaysia's MMC Corporation Berhad (KUL:MMCCORP) (Kuala Lumpur) are making significant inroads into the Middle East power and industrial sectors....
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

CPECC Signs Contract for 2,000-Megawatt Expansion Project

...China Power Engineering Consulting Corporation (CPECC) (Beijing) and Anhui Wenergy Company Limited (Hefei) signed a contract on July 16 for a ......
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Power

Producer Price Index for Manufactured Goods in China Rises 8.8% in June

...China's producer price index (PPI) for manufactured goods rose 8.8% year over year in June, and the growth was 0.6 percentage points higher compared with May....
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Industrial Manufacturing

China's Investment in Fixed Assets up 26.3% in the First Half of 2008

...In the first half of 2008, China's total investment in fixed assets reached $991.33 billion, an increase of 26.3% from the same period last year....
FREE       Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Industrial Manufacturing

Nearly 115 Industrial Plants in the Potential Path of Tropical Storm Dolly in Southern Texas

...Tropical Storm Dolly could be the first major weather event generated in the Gulf of Mexico to potentially disrupt industrial plant operations since ......
FREE     Graph Showing Number of Plants in Each Industry Affected By Hurricane Dolly, Image - Plants in Tropical Storm Dolly Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Industrial Manufacturing

China's Industrial Output Increases 16.3% in First Half of 2008

...From January to June, China's industrial output from enterprises with annual sales incomes of more than RMB 5 million yuan ($720,000) increased......
FREE     Table Showing Output and Growth of Major Industrial Products of China in June 2008 Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Industrial Manufacturing

Big Pharma Layoffs Mounting - 26 More Plants to Close

...Despite the fact that millions of people consume prescription drug products on a daily basis, a tsunami of job cuts continues to roll across the Pharmaceuticals Industry....
PREMIUM     Table of North American Pharma-Biotech Industry Closed Plants Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Another One Bites the Cob - Prairie Creek Ethanol Pulls the Plug on Iowa Ethanol Plant

...Member-owned ethanol start-up Prairie Creek Ethanol LLC (Goldfield, Iowa), has pulled the plug on plans to build a new fuel ethanol plant in Wesley, Iowa....
PREMIUM       Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Alternative Fuel

Arizona Clean Fuels' Long-Stalled Refinery Could Be First to Be Built Since 1976

...Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma LLC (Phoenix, Arizona) has received an air permit to proceed with the construction of a 150,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery......
PREMIUM       Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Petroleum Refining


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