RWE AG is expanding its activities in Eastern Europe and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Serbian utility JP Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) and the Serbian government for this purpose. Going forward, the partners intend to cooperate in joint projects to develop the Serbian electricity market.
GALWAY, IRELAND--November 18, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Statkraft AS (Oslo, Norway) plans to develop a second power plant at the Knapsack Industrial Estate in Hurth, Germany. The power plant, which will have a capacity of 430 megawatts (MW) and will cost about 300 million euros ($446 million), is expected to go online by 2012. Statkraft initiated a land survey early this year, and licensing procedures are now under way. The final investment decision is likely to be made by mid-2010. The combined-cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) plant will be built a 5-hectare area within the estate, where Statkraft has been operating an 800-MW unit since 2007.
GALWAY, IRELAND--November 17, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Dong Energy (Copenhagen, Denmark) may have dropped out of the U.K.'s carbon capture and storage (CCS) race last week, but the U.K. is about to get a new entrant in the shape of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY) (SSE) (Perth, Scotland). The power and gas company has announced that it plans to build the country's largest CCS demonstration plant at the Ferrybridge coal-fired power station near Castleford in Yorkshire. Doosan Babcock Energy Limited (Renfrew, Scotland) and partners will build the 5-megawatt (MW), £21 million ($35.2 million) pilot plant.
GALWAY, IRELAND--November 16, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Crown Estate (London, England), an independent body that owns the seabed within 12 nautical miles of the United Kingdom's coastline, is expected to announce the award of contracts under Round 3 of the Offshore Wind Development Program at the end of December. The projects under Round 3 include a 5,000-megawatt (MW) windfarm off the coast of Norfolk and an even larger 10,000-MW project in the North Sea. The contract to build and operate the larger windfarm is expected to go to a consortium known as Forewind, consisting of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY) (Perth, Scotland); RWE npower Renewables (Swindon, England), a subsidiary of RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY) (Essen, Germany); and Norwegian companies StatoilHydro ASA (NYSE:STO) (Stavanger) and state-owned Statkraft (Oslo).
During the first nine months of fiscal 2009, RWE?s electricity and gas operations proved robust, even during the economic crisis, producing solid results in most business divisions.
BASF just got picked to make green building materials for the UAE's $22 bn Masdar project, but hasn't forgotten its backyard with a CO2-scrubbing plant.
In line with recent stock lists on my blog, the following securities ex-US may be appropriate for inclusion on your watch list for accumulation. These are not recommendations. This is a list for you to further investigate to discover if they are a fit for your Permanent or Speculative Portfolios.
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With the end of the first quarter approaching, it is time to adjust the names in my Watch Lists. I will price all the new lists as of the close on Friday, June 29.
Today I present my planned updates to the Large Cap Watch List. There was a fairly high level of turnover to the [...]
Companies featured in this segment: SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), KBR Incorporated (NYSE:KBR), Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT), Woodside Petroleum Limited (OTC:WOPEY), Chevron Corporation’s (NYSE:CVX), Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA), Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES), Tata Steel Limited (BSE:500470), New Millennium Capital Corporation (CVE:NML), Korea Electric Power Company (NYSE:KEP), Iberdrola Renovables (MCE:IBR), The AES Corporation (NYSE:AES), Egyptian company El Sewedy Cables (CAI:SWDY), Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (NYSE:CBI), Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY), E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY), RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY)
Companies featured in this segment: Suncor Energy Incorporated (NYSE:SU), Jacobs Engineering Group Incorporated (NYSE:JEC), Alexandria Real Estate Equities Incorporated (NYSE:ARE), Tata Motors (NYSE:TTM), Bureau Veritas SA (EPA:BVI), Areva SA, Korea Electric Power Corporation (SEO:015760), Total S.A. (NYSE:TOT), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (BSE:530965), MeadWestvaco Corporation's (NYSE:MWV), Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY), RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY), StatoilHydro ASA (NYSE:STO)
Companies featured in this segment: Fiat (OTC:FIATY), Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY), E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY), BP plc (NYSE:BP), RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Eni SpA (NYSE:E), BP plc (NYSE:BP), Emerson Electric Company (NYSE:EMR), Korea Electric Power Corporation (NYSE:KEP), Reliance Industries Limited (BSE:500325), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Total S.A. (NYSE:TOT)
Companies featured in this segment: Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE:PFE), Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON), Alstom SA (EPA:ALO), Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB), American Electric Power Company Incorporated (NYSE:AEP), The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), StatoilHydro ASA (NYSE:STO), E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY), Total SA (NYSE:TOT), Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS.A), National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG), ArcelorMittal (NYSE:MT), RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY), E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY), Nestle S.A. (OTC:NSRGY)
Companies featured in this segment: RWE AG (OTC:RWEOY), E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY), Areva SA (EPA:CEI), Electricite de France SA (EPA:EDF), Scottish And Southern Energy plc (OTC:SSEZY), Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated’s (NYSE:WMT), Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD), Shell (NYSE:RDS.A), Exxon Mobile (NYSE:XOM), Valero’s (NYSE:VLO), ConocoPhillips’ (NYSE:COP), Alabama Power Company’s (NYSE:ALM), DuPont’s (NYSE:DD), Gulf Power Company’s (NYSE:GUL), Mississippi Power Company’s (NYSE:MPJ)