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• Good News for LNG Customers - Unit 7 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Should Start Up Soon

  One of the biggest contributors to the market price of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) during the past two years has been a significant increase in purchases from Japan. A major reason for those purchases was the long term shutdown of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa after an earthquake. That facility, home to 7 nuclear power plants, is the largest single power generation site in the world; replacing its power output... Posted May 07 2009, 03:46 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Japan, forecast, LNG

• German Energy Agency Director Shares Plan to Deal With Power Demand in the Future - Hint: More Fossil Fuel

  Reuters is reporting that Stephan Kohler, the managing director of Dena , the German government energy agency, recently spoke at a trade fair in Europe in favor of a continued push to build new coal and gas fired power plants as a way to ensure that Germany remains an industrial power. "New build of fossil fuels-based power plants is essential to cover demand peaks, to avoid an efficiency gap... Posted Feb 11 2009, 01:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Germany, report, study, forecast