admin | February 23, 2012
By Christopher Martin
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Nstar’s agreement to purchase power from Cape Wind Associates LLC may lead to financing of the first U.S. offshore wind project.
Nstar agreed to purchase 129 megawatts of capacity from the planned 468-megawatt project as part the Boston-based utility holding company’s $4.8 billion acquisition by Northeast Utilities, in [...]
admin | February 23, 2012
By Franz Wild
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Mining officials from Democratic Republic of Congo were attacked at a conference in Cape Town by men protesting against the country’s election results, said Bene M’Poko, the country’s ambassador to South Africa.
At least five people, including an official from Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s Congo unit, [...]
admin | February 23, 2012
By Kyunghee Park and Andrea Rothman
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS formed an alliance with Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. to convert A330 wide- body passenger jets into freighters, helping the European planemaker expand in a market largely dominated by Boeing Co.
ST Aerospace will lead the A330P2F engineering development, working with Airbus and EADS’s [...]