A Greek-registered oil tanker that ran aground off Karachi's coast has developed cracks in its hull and is threatening to break apart and spill tons of oil in rich fishing waters, port officials and environmentalists said Wednesday.

08/29/2003

Widespread Chaos As Power Outage Hits London

French heat wave toll rises dramatically
Big News Network.com

TEXT-S&P comments on Nat'l Grid Transco after London power cut
Forbes

Half million hit by London power cuts

Data: Ohio Drained Power Before Outage

08/26/2003

Secretary Leads Power Outage Investigation

DOE Releases 25-Year Strategic Plan

Blackout May Mean More Power Plants

EPA lacked data to support its claims for relaxing air pollution rules, report finds

08/25/2003

225 new jobs have been posted in the last 30 days.
665 active postings on EnergyCentralJobs.com.

08/19/2003

Superconductor "Valve" to Protect Against Energy Surges (from PQNews)
According to a recent New York Times article, a Latham, N.Y. company, Intermagnetics General, will build a prototype device designed to protect the power grid from energy surges, like those that caused the largest blackout in U.S. history on August 14. The device, called a matrix fault current limiter, reacts in less than a 60th of a second.

Made of a super conducting material comprised of bismuth, strontium, calcium, copper, and oxygen, the device will use a controlled rise in temperature (from 77 Kelvin, or about 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit) to choke off the flow of power. It will not act as a circuit breaker but will reduce the surge down to a level that conventional circuit breakers can handle.

The project is expected to cost $12.2 million, with EPRI contributing $600,000 and the Energy Dept. providing $6 million, and to operate at a scale for use by public utilities by 2006.

Alternative Power Stocks Soar

08/15/2003

Power outage didn't spread into N.B., N.S. due to automatic shutdowns
CNEWS August 15, 2003

08/14/2003

France Reports 3,000 Heat-Related Deaths

Largest-Ever Blackout Hits Eastern U.S.

08/13/2003

Energy Jobs at GE Power –

Heat waves eases in France Temperatures begin to dip as health officials face new accusations over deaths from heat.

PUGET SOUND ENERGY
Power company offers customers a green alternative

Derek Sheppard
Sun Staff

Clean energy: will it be Asia's saviour?
The Nation - Thailand August 13, 2003

CBS News | Who Killed Montana Power? | February 10, 2003 09:52: ...
... (CBS/AP), (CBS) Former Montana Power shareholders say they were misled when the Montana Power Company was transformed into a telecom company. ...

Unplugging power monopolies
( 2003-08-12 07:29) (China Daily)

08/11/2003

About 50 dead in Paris from heat wave, doctor says

08/09/2003

Coal vs. Wind Power: You be the Judge

08/07/2003

An Energy System in Flux

08/01/2003

The Energy Policy Act of 2003, sponsored by Republican Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, points in the wrong direction. At a time when America needs safe, clean, affordable energy, this bill is harmful to consumers and the environment. This is a regressive bill that, among other things, reduces public utility protection for consumers; leaves taxpayers responsible for up to half the construction costs of new nuclear reactors; provides $10 billion in subsidies for the already lucrative oil and natural gas industries; and encourages reckless mining and hazardous disposal of millions of gallons of underground water by the coal bed methane industry. Public Citizen, a national, nonprofit, public interest organization, has prepared electronic letters and faxes to expedite your participation in our democracy. Take a minute and let your legislators know how you feel. Don't forget to remind them that you'll be in the voting booth come election time.

DOE Solicits Bids for $200 Million in Hydrogen Technology Projects

07/30/2003

Tax credit powering windmills

Senate progress slows on electricity grid plan

07/29/2003

Electricity-generating wind turbines proposed
Boston Globe July 29, 2003

Killing Energy
National Review July 29, 2003

Energy, as the late Julian Simon observed, is the "master resource." Energy enables mankind to transform all other resources into goods and services, and it empowers people to move themselves, commerce, and information across distances great and small. That is why long-term declines in energy costs are essential to economic progress.

07/28/2003

University Of California passes clean energy policy

07/26/2003

Shell Acquired Wind Power

07/25/2003

Natural energy has power to provide says youngsters

07/24/2003

World Bank group meets to clean up Asia's deadly air

22 July 2003

By Associated Press

SINGAPORE — Delegates from the oil industry and a World Bank-funded environmental group met for the first time Monday to discuss measures to clean up heavily polluted Asian cities, where air pollution kills over 500,000 people every year.

FERC orders through/out grid fee dropped by Nov. 1

Energy crucial part of Korea's industrial vision

This old greenhouse
Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society July 22, 2003

Shell WindEnergy to Construct Wind Farm Yet With 160 Wind Turbines

07/17/2003

Biodiesel Film Fundraisers Set for July

Bankruptcy of Pepco Power Supplier May Increase Washington-Area Electric Bills

California Energy Commission uses Enterprise Energy Management to Research the Impact of Distributed Generation on the Utility Grid

07/16/2003

Leading wholesale energy and fuel price forecasts now online

Coal gasification is long-term solution for natural gas crisis

Bill to Re-Regulate Energy Industry Draws Attention