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AEP,
SemGreen sign MOU for delivery, use of C02 captured from
Oklahoma plant
Company Release, October
16, 2007
COLUMBUS,
Ohio -- American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and SemGreen
L.P., a subsidiary of SemGroup L.P., have signed a
memorandum of understanding regarding the delivery and
use of carbon dioxide captured by a planned
commercial-scale carbon capture system on AEP subsidiary
Public Service Company of Oklahoma’s Northeastern
coal-fired power plant. |
NYSE:AEP |
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China
Starts Construction On Its Largest Nuclear Power Plant
ANH,
October 12, 2007
GUANGDONG, CHINA -- Chinese officials have
started construction on the nation's largest nuclear
power plant in Yangjiang, Guandong. The Yangjiang
Nuclear Power Plant is part of China's strategy to
increase the use of nuclear power and decrease its
dependence on fossil fuels. China will spend an
estimated $8 billion USD on the power plant. |
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Alstom
Hydro wins new major contracts in Brazil and China
Company Release, October
11, 2007
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, CEDEX, FRANCE -- Alstom Hydro, a joint venture between
Alstom and Bouygues, has signed several contracts, worth
approximately 350 million euro, to supply electro-and
hydro-mechanical equipment for hydropower plants in
Brazil and China. These contracts have been booked in
the first half backlog of the 2007/08 fiscal year.
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Nuclear
power plant in Jiangsu to use Russian tech
China Daily, October 11, 2007
Two 1,000-MW nuclear
power reactors will be built under the second phase of
the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Jiangsu Province,
company officials have said. Russian company
Atomstroyexport (ASE) - which supplied the two reactors
for Phase I that started full operation in August - and
a Chinese project official who did not want to be named,
confirmed the project.
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Space-Based
Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security
The National Space Society, October
11, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC -- Consistent
with the US National Security Strategy, energy and
environmental security are not just problems for
America, they are critical challenges for the entire
world. Expanding human populations and declining natural
resources are potential sources of local and strategic
conflict in the 21st Century, and many see energy
scarcity as the foremost threat to national
security. |

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Hexcel
to build prepreg facility in China
Company Release, October
10, 2007
STAMFORD, CT -- Hexcel Corporation, in conjunction with
Tianjin Xeda Administrative Committee, has today
announced further details of its plans to build a new
prepreg plant in China. The new facility is
intended to meet the strong demand for composites used
in wind turbines. China is experiencing major
growth in its wind energy market and the country plans
to double the amount of energy it obtains from renewable
sources by 2020; a strategy that will require a major
increase in the number of wind power plants in the
country. |
NYSE:HXL |
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SGL
Group plans to triple carbon fiber capacities
Company Release,
October 5, 2007
WIESBADEN - The SGL Group – The
Carbon Company – is rigorously continuing on its path
to becoming one of the leading suppliers in the area of
carbon fibers and carbon fiber composites and plans to
triple its carbon fiber production capacity to as much
as 12,000 metric tons by 2012. |
WKN:723530
OTC:SGLFF |
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