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  1. Scottish 1.8 GW coal fired plant clears legal challenge

    Article

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Environmental groups have failed in their legal efforts to black a £3bn ($4.6bn) 1.8 GW coal fired power ..... to limit damaging carbon emissions. Campaigners mounted a legal challenge with the help of RSPB Scotland, WWF, Friends of

  2. PG&E Co. to pay at least $150m in bankruptcy legal costs

    Article

    Fri, 22 Mar 2002

    said it may spend at least $150m in bankruptcy legal fees, much of which is going to cover legal fees of parent company PG&E Corp. The utility ..... the utility's estimate of $32 million in legal fees during 2001, the utility now has paid

  1. PacifiCorp proposes legal /regulatory realignment

    Article

    Wed, 6 Dec 2000

    Dec. 4, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) PacifiCorp, has asked state regulators to approve a legal and regulatory realignment of the company, according to its parent company Scottish Power. In filings made December 1, 2000

  2. Legal battle continues over geothermal plant in El Salvador

    Article

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    project’s Italian investors the right to take-over the plant According to the El Faro newspaper, this could extend the legal battle for up to a year. Enel Green Power had said it provided capital on the basis of it acquiring the 95 MW geothermal plant

  3. Law school probes Smart Grid legal obstacles

    Article

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    according to a new report. Researchers at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment investigated the legal , policy and regulatory obstacles to introducing Smart Grid technology. It conducted case studies of seven US utilities – including

  4. Controversial $1.2bn power plant frozen after legal ruling

    Article

    Tue, 17 Apr 2012

    In Australia, an energy technology firm has frozen development of a contentious A$1.2bn ($1.23bn) brown coal gas hybrid power plant after a ruling by a tribunal effectively delayed construction, putting the future of the project in doubt.

  5. Legal problems stall completion of Ecuador power contract

    Article

    Mon, 18 Nov 2002

    having been awarded the contract on 18 April. Diego Perez Pallares, president of the Council admitted that the contract had legal shortcomings some of which they were responsible for. He said the ACS-Cobra-Omegaport consortium, in which Union Fenosa

  6. Legal boost for US biomass power development

    Article

    Tue, 17 Jan 2012

    A favourable ruling from Washington looks set to boost U.S. biomass power development after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed so-called "clean biomass" from a list of materials to be regulated as hazardous waste.

  7. Batalla legal por recursos geotérmicos en El Salvador

    Article

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    Inversiones Energéticas, firma con acciones en la planta geotérmica LaGeo en El Salvador, pedirá que el fallo de un tribunal internacional a favor de que inversionistas italianos tomen el control de la  planta con el objetivo de alargar la disputa por la mayoría de las acciones por casi 12 meses,

  8. Legal fight over 600 MW Australian power plant

    Article

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Australian energy company HRL is taking its fight to build a new power station to a tribunal this week as it faces increasing opposition from environmental groups.