2008 MAY 5 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Customer choices and competition have led the electric utilities to undergo major regulatory and technological changes while power sector reform continues. A part of this change also originates from the rapid emergence of viable small-scale distributed generation (DG) sources that are highly competitive with grid-delivered electricity in the isolated areas. ...read more

  2008 MAY 5 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "In order to extend the applied range of emergy analysis method, this article combines the method of emergy analysis which roots in the ecosystem and the method of cumulative exergy analysis which is popular in industrial systems. The exergy of a product is evaluated based on its cumulative solar exergy," scientists writing in the journal Energy Sources Part B - Economics Planning and Policy report ...read more

  2008 MAY 5 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research published in the journal Energy Sources Part B - Economics Planning and Policy, "Given the instability of crude oil prices and the disruptions in crude oil supply chains, this article offers a complementing investment proposal through diversification of Nigeria's energy source and dependence. Therefore, the following issues were examined and reported: A comparative survey of coal and hydrocarbon reserve bases in Nigeria was undertaken and presented. ...read more