Sunvalley Solar Progresses on Green Farm Solar Investment Plan in Southern California

- Sunvalley Solar Inc. , a leading provider of solar power products and services, announced that it continues to make substantial progress on Green Farm Solar Investment Plan in Thermal, Imperial, Coachella and Holtville, CA. Sunvalley Solar moves forward in the promotion of its Green Farm Solar Investment Plan. The Green Farm Solar Investment Plan... 

Parker Drilling to Present at Pritchard Capital Partners Energize 2011 Conference

Parker Drilling (NYSE:PKD – News) announced today Kirk Brassfield, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the Pritchard Capital Partners Energize 2011 Conference in San Francisco, California. The Company’s presentation is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) on Wednesday, Jan. 5. A link to the... 

Senior Banking Executive Named to PPL Corporation Board

PPL Corporation announced Monday (12/20) that Steven G. Elliott, who has nearly four decades of auditing and banking experience, has been named to the company’s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Elliott currently serves as senior vice chairman of BNY Mellon. During his extensive career with that company, he served as chief financial... 

Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power

Texas has long been home to Big Oil companies that specialize in extracting petroleum from hard-to-reach places. Now the hip college town of Austin is vying to become the epicenter of a potentially giant market for carbon-free electricity generated by the hot Texas sun. The rest of Texas may follow, if the state legislature passes incentives that will... 

PG&E Responds to NTSB Report on San Bruno Accident

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today responded to the release by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of its second interim report on the tragic San Bruno pipeline rupture on September 9, 2010. The report documents NTSB’s progress on its meticulous investigation but draws no definitive conclusions as to the cause of the... 

Spire Introduces Large Area Solar Simulator for Thin Film Modules

Spire Corporation, an American global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced the introduction of a 6 meter by 1.3 meter solar simulator with the first unit to be delivered to SoloPower, Inc. located in San Jose, California, for application to copper-indium-gallium-selenide... 

Green Energy Live Targets $154 Billion U.S. Livestock Industry for Sustainable Biomass-to-Energy Technology Development

Green Energy Live Inc. is focused on developing sustainable biomass-to-energy conversion technology to meet a critical need for the nation’s $154 billion livestock industry. Green Energy Live is utilizing proprietary gasification technology for the development of highly innovative, on-site manure-to-electricity conversion systems to enable America’s... 

Western Wind to develop an additional new 30 to 80MW wind project in Tehachapi, CA

Western Wind Energy Corp announce that it has secured approximately 575 contiguous acres near Tehachapi, California through land purchases and ground leases and plans to pursue the development of an additional wind energy project of at least 30MW. The new project will be named Windswept. Western Wind is working on acquiring or leasing additional contiguous... 

Can CA Economy Afford Climate Policies?

As political pressure mounts to delay California’s ambitious global warming policies, a new report from University of California researchers examines the economic impacts of putting the Governor’s climate program on hold. Energy Prices and California’s Economic Security, a project sponsored by Next 10, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization,... 

Springboard Biodiesel Announces Patent-Pending Biodiesel Processing Acceleration Technology

Springboard Biodiesel, announced today that it has developed patent-pending biodiesel processing acceleration technology that doubles the capacity of its BioPro biodiesel processors. Springboard Biodiesel’s processing line will now comfortably serve users with an even broader range of processing needs — up to 36,000 gallons annually —...