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Dec 21- More than 230,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Eastern half of the United States Friday afternoon, down from over 320,000 earlier in the day, after a series of snow and rain storms battered the area, power companies said.
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Dec 21- More than 320,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Eastern half of the United States on Friday after a series of snow and rain storms over the past few days, power companies said.
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Dec 21- More than 210,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Eastern half of the United States on Friday after a series of snow and rain storms over the past few days, power companies said.
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Dec 21- More than 120,000 homes and businesses were without power Friday morning after a series of snow and rain storms battered the Eastern half of the United States over the past few days, power companies said.
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SHANGHAI, Dec 21- China, the world's top coal importer, said it would scrap a regulation to cap spot thermal coal prices and would no longer intervene in annual coal price negotiations between sellers and utilities starting in 2013..
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Midwest and Gulf Coast, power companies said. Utilities in Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas and Missouri were restoring power Thursday afternoon while the storms continued to batter parts of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The storm also caused tornadoes in the Mobile, Alabama area, according to weather forecaster AccuWeather.com.
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One impact from rising intermittent German wind power generation in the north of the country is of electricity spilling into neighbouring networks en route back into southern Germany or Austria, called loop flows.
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Midwest and Gulf Coast, power companies said on Thursday. The utilities hit first in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas and Missouri had already started restoring power, while the storms continued to batter parts of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, causing outages there to grow.
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Dec 20- A series of snow and rain storms knocked out power for over 350,000 customers in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast, power companies said on Thursday. The storms have also caused tornadoes in the Mobile, Alabama area, according to weather forecaster AccuWeather.com.
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The WTO largely backed complaints from Japan and the European Union that the scheme set up by the Canadian province of Ontario discriminated unfairly against foreign companies. The EU welcomed the ruling and said it would open up more business for the bloc's businesses in Canada.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 18- The United States on Tuesday pressed forward with plans to slap steep punitive duties on wind turbine towers from China, keeping up friction on the clean energy front as it welcomed a high-level Chinese delegation for trade and economic talks.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 18- The United States on Tuesday pressed forward with plans to slap punitive duties on wind turbine towers from China, keeping up friction on the clean energy front as it welcomed a high-level Chinese delegation for trade and economic talks.
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*Nikkei rises 1.1 pct, Topix up 1.2 pct in active trade. TOKYO, Dec 18- Japan's Nikkei average edged closer to the 10,000- mark, hitting an 8-1/ 2- month high for a second day on Tuesday, buoyed by a landslide election win for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, although investors took profit on power companies.
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*Nikkei and Topix both rise 0.6 pct. *Exporters still benefit from LDP victory. TOKYO, Dec 18- Japan's Nikkei share average advanced on Tuesday, extending the previous session's gains after the conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide election, although investors took profit on power companies.
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NEW YORK, Dec 17- General Electric Co expects revenue to be flat to up 5 percent in 2013, with strong overall demand for industrial equipment partly offset by declining sales of wind turbines. The company, in a presentation prepared for a meeting with investors in New York on Monday afternoon, said it expects profit to rise next year but did not say by how much.
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HOUSTON, Dec 17- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission may issue a decision in March on whether operators of the damaged San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear reactor in California can restart the unit, according to a timeline on the agency's website.
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LONDON, Dec 17- European countries may be responding too slowly to the risk that they could cause blackouts across the power grid because they set solar installations to cut out suddenly if wider power supply outstrips demand.
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TOKYO, Dec 17- Japan's Nikkei average climbed 1.6 percent to an 8-1/ 2- month high on Monday, as the yen weakened after the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which favours aggressive monetary easing, won Sunday's election by a landslide.
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Edison Mission, the unregulated power generation business of Edison International, is unlikely to make an interest payment on bonds due on Monday and is preparing a bankruptcy filing as early as Sunday to avoid default, according to the source, who declined to be identified because plans are still being finalized.
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*Siemens paid $1.6 bln in 2008 to settle bribery case. NEW YORK, Dec 13- State-owned Mexican oil company Pemex sued Siemens AG and a South Korean company for $1.5 billion on Thursday over a bribery scheme that has dogged the German conglomerate for years.