Johnson Controls-Saft Awarded $8.2 Million Development Contract

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded Johnson Controls-Saft a contract valued at $8.2 million. The contract will focus on the development of lithium-ion battery systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and over the course of two years will seek to validate the... 

OriginOil Invited to Present at Next Generation Biofuels Markets Conference in Amsterdam

OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced today it will present at the Next Generation Biofuels Markets conference on October 8, 2008, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “The Biofuels Markets World Series brings together major... 

Foster Wheeler Awarded Conceptual & Basic Design of New Alcon Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in Singapore

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, Biokinetics, Inc., along with Foster Wheeler’s Singapore office, both part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Alcon Laboratories Inc. to provide engineering and architectural services for the conceptual and basic design of its new 250,000 square... 

SMT Announces Opening of Calgary Office

SMT, the leader for Windows-based geoscientific interpretation software, today announced the opening of its Calgary office and the appointment of Brian Kulbaba as Account Manager, SMT Canada Operations. In celebration of the expansion into Canada, Kulbaba and several SMT management team members will host a sneak preview in Calgary of the company’s... 

Odersun Solar-Circles Successfully Generate Power for the Olympic Park in China

Odersun AG, a developer and manufacturer of solar cells, modules and applications, has completed the delivery of customized thin-film solar modules for a building integrated photovoltaic (BiPV) project in Beijing, China. The trapezoidal modules form concentric rings on the roofs of four circular buildings belonging to the visitor center of the Olympic... 

Verenium Commends the EPA Decision to Maintain the Renewable Fuels Standard

Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, today applauded the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to uphold the enhanced Renewable Fuel Standard enacted into law in December 2007. In its decision, EPA rejected a petition to waive 50% of the requirement... 

BIO Supports EPA Denial of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) provides crucial support and incentives for companies to invest in new biorefineries to bring advanced biofuels to the pump. Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President & CEO Jim Greenwood released the following statement expressing the industry’s support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s... 

Marathon to Donate $2.4 Million to Create Future Fuels Gallery at the Detroit Science Center

Marathon Oil Corporation announced a $2.4 million grant to the Detroit Science Center for the creation of a new Future Fuels Gallery at the museum. The 6,000 square-foot, three-story gallery will be one of the museum’s largest exhibit areas and the Midwest’s only public, educational display of petroleum and alternative fuels technology.... 

Energy Storage Pilot Program Approved in ISO New England; Beacon Power Eligible to Participate and Earn Revenue

Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced that the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL), the group of electric utilities, generators, and service providers within the ISO New England region, has voted unanimously in favor... 

Acquisition of Kelman Limited Furthers GE Energy’s “Smart Grid” Capabilities with Utilities

GE Energy has acquired Kelman Limited of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, a leading provider of advanced monitoring and diagnostics technologies for transformers, enhancing GE’s smart grid product portfolio. GE’s smart grid offerings are designed to help utilities increase productivity and reliability, while also providing consumers with information to...