Dow Corning Corp. has demonstrated a manufacturing process featuring new developmental silicone materials that significantly increases the production rate of solar panels, effectively lowering the cost per watt of solar power.
“This technology represents a real step-change in the industry, and will help make solar power a viable and sustainable energy option globally,” said Gaetan Borgers, [...]
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announces that it has received a US$2.0 million award from the US Department of Energy (DoE), in support of OPT’s wave power project in Reedsport, Oregon.
The DoE grant will be used to help fund the fabrication, assembly and factory testing of the first PowerBuoy® to be installed at the Reedsport site. [...]
UTEK Corporation, an innovation services company, and World Energy Solutions, Inc, an energy services company and electronics manufacturer, are pleased to announce that World Energy Solutions, Inc. has acquired H-Hybrid Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK, in a stock transaction.
H-Hybrid Technologies contains the H-Hybrid (trademark pending) designation as well as a worldwide exclusive [...]
Plasco Energy Group Inc. of Ottawa will build, own and operate a waste conversion facility to serve the Central Waste Management Commission led by Red Deer County’s Mayor, Earl Kinsella. PlascoEnergy and CWMC signed a contract that will see a supply of 300 tonnes of waste per day converted into valuable products including over [...]
Westinghouse Electric Company has today signed pioneering agreements with BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Doosan Babcock to collaborate on work associated with bringing the AP1000 nuclear power plant to the UK.
The agreements are part of the Westinghouse strategy to “buy where we build” and are key milestones in the process which may lead to between 70 [...]
Goodrich Corporation’s Sensors and Integrated Systems team in Burnsville, Minn. has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State University. The tunnel will be the university’s first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State’s wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory.
The WiST lab is a state-of-the-art [...]
High Velocity Alternative Energy, Inc. announced that the Company has effectively begun trading under its new symbol “HVAE” on the Pink Sheets OTC. In conjunction to the symbol change, the company executed a Board approved 4 for 1 forward split of its common stock and has commenced trading on a split-adjusted basis under the new [...]
Chevron Corporation today announced the signing of agreements with Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd to bring Shell into the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project as a natural gas supplier and equity participant.
George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation, said, “Chevron is pleased to welcome another participant into the Wheatstone Project. The Wheatstone hub will provide a reliable new [...]
True Energy Trust confirms that the cash distribution for the month of August will be $0.04 per unit, to be paid on September 15, 2008 to all unitholders of record as at August 29, 2008. The ex-distribution date for this payment is August 27, 2008. This distribution announcement is consistent with the guidance provided in [...]
TRC Companies, Inc., a recognized leader in engineering, consulting and construction management that provides integrated services to the environmental, energy, infrastructure, and real estate markets, today announced that it has been awarded a $3 million contract to serve as the engineering consultant on the Keene Road Substation Project for the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company (Bangor Hydro).
“Bangor [...]