[Ferro-Alloys.com] Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) has approved a $98-million investment to build a solar plant, Western Australia’s first, which will power the company’s new Koodaideri iron ore mine, in the resource-rich Pilbara region.

Brazilian miner Vale, the world's top nickel producer, is acquiring the control of Ferrous Resources, its controlling shareholder Icahn Enterprises said in a securities filing.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China's coal consumption has fallen for the third year in a row as part of its broader effort to develop the nonfossil fuel sector, according to Haibing Ma, China program manager at the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based climate think ...

Solar companies in Arizona are dismayed that Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill that will allow utilities such as Arizona Public Service Co. to make homeowners wait as long as two months before they can install solar panels.

During February 18th to 19th, the Technical Department, the Quality Department and theProduction Department organized the Kick-off Meeting of 2016 Process Project inYangzhong and Nanjing. On the meeting, the Technical Department introduced theproject backgroun...

Few outside of the energy industry will have heard of the term ‘Peak Load’. In its simplest form, Peak Load refers to the period of maximum demand for electricity. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – where it isn’t uncommon for summer temperatures to reach 50...

Nevada energy regulators won't pause a controversial rate hike for rooftop solar customers, in spite of hours of pleas from hundreds of solar energy users, a supportive tweet from presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and even a cameo from a movie star.

In July, 2015, the Chinese production of ferrosilicon was ... tons, decreasing by 5.04% Y-O-Y. In Jan-Jul of 2015, the total production of ferrosilicon was ... million tons, decreasing by 13.84% Y-O-Y.