GLG News by Utilities and Power Generation Consultants (EU)

Solar power is also solar thermal power technology, which relates on concentrated solar radiation and delivers today already cheaper electricity than photovoltaics. Solar thermal power technology has more in common with Big Oil than photovoltaics. Solar thermal power business is nowadays booming and...

The UK Gas market is short of storage due to the tailing off of UK gas reserves. Most new gas storage projects are associated with existing major market players. Star Energy is one of the few credible independent storage players.

The efficiency of photosynthesis is only about 1%. Therefore, plants or animals should not be used for producing biofuels, unless they are anyway needed for other purposes like food or fodder supply and industry (e.g., construction wood). On the contrary, biofuels from organic waste products of...

Many current fuels and clean sources for power generation provide non-firm supplies. Coal remains the cheapest most cheaply and easily stored power generation fuel, and therefore must remain in the fuel misx of most generators.

Globally thaere is great demand for power generation equipment and skills for construction, testing and operation of new plant. Plant owners who delay orders or have consent delays imposed upon then risk joining the queue for key components and skills for manufacture and commissioning of new plant.

Throughout the boom period of BP's performance staffers have been incentivised by a target driven culture that has seen to be counter-productive to the overall group performance and image.

BAA owns and operates the three main London Airports at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stanstead together with the three main Scottish hubs at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. The final airport in the group is Southampton. As such BAA has for years enjoyed near monopoly for business and leasure travel to and...

Whilst Cape sized vessels are the work horses of bulk commodity shipping the overall bulk shipping market needs to be considered. Considerable bult commodity transport is carried in smaller Panamax and Handy sized vessels.

Bulk freight rates slumped to uneconomic lows in the second half of 2001. Typical rates for Cape Size vessels from South Africa to Europe fell to US$4.5/te, and from Australia to Europe to US$6.60/te. For Panamax vessels Australia to Europe fell to US$9.25/te and from South Africa to Europe US$6.5/te....

Phase 1 (2005-2007) could be described as a complete failure or merely a leaning experience. Phase 2 (2008-2012) will build on earlier phase, but there are doubts that individual staes have been stringent in the issue of emission allowances. Phase 3 (beyond 2012) is a great opportunity