Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry.
The Arch parabolic mirrors optically focus sunlight onto a concentrator containing active solar cell materials that convert the intense light into electricity. The paint [...]
Hercules Offshore, Inc. announces an investment of $10 million in Discovery Offshore S.A. (“Discovery Offshore”), a newly formed Luxembourg-based company, focused on ownership of ultra high-specification jackup rigs. Discovery Offshore will construct two ultra high-specification jackup rigs, with options for two additional jackup rigs, at Keppel FELS in Singapore. Hercules Offshore will also [...]
CleanFUEL USA and ConocoPhillips have signed a three-year agreement to advance propane infrastructure for the U.S. transportation fuel industry. Under the agreement, the two companies will provide resources to install and supply propane fuel pumps for commercial fleet fuel users. Propane fueling stations will be installed not only at fleet owner sites, but may also [...]
Hess Corporation announced the launch of its Hess C-Neutral program to commercial, industrial and institutional customers.
Hess C-Neutral is a carbon-neutral energy program for natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. Through C-Neutral, Hess engineers calculate the carbon emissions associated with a customer’s energy usage and include enough carbon offsets with the energy purchased to make it [...]
TGI Solar Power Group Inc., a full turnkey supplier of vertically integrated systems for a variety of applications from Solar Parks (solar to grid) to commercial markets, and Czech-based European Estate Capital, a regional solar developer, announced today plans to collaborate on a 10 MW power station to be located in the Czech Republic.
TGI Solar [...]
Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. announces that the Ashlu Creek run-of-river hydroelectric power generating plant (“Ashlu Creek”), with a net installed capacity of 49.9 MW, is now in commercial operation. As the required performance tests were carried out successfully, BC Hydro has retroactively set the official commercial operation start date at November 29, 2009. With Ashlu [...]
Global oil prices could exceed $110 a barrel if political unrest in Egypt continues, a member of Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council said on Sunday.
Oil prices have spiked due to tension in Egypt. Brent crude hit $100 per barrel for the first time since 2008 on fears instability could spread through the Middle East, which together [...]
Exxon Mobil Corp reported a better-than-expected 53 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by a lower tax rate and a surge in natural gas production in the United States and Qatar.
Oil demand rose last year and the U.S. government expects
another 1.5 percent gain this year as businesses’ and consumers’ appetite for fuels like diesel and [...]
Nexterra Energy Corp. announced that it has received an order from Johnson Controls Inc. for a multi-million dollar biomass gasification system at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The Nexterra biomass gasification system is the cornerstone of an $89 million contract for Johnson Controls to undertake a [...]
International Power Group announced that in order to expedite our Middle-Eastern opportunities, the company is currently under negotiations with a well known European low-temperature gasifier supplier, as well as with ForeverGreen Enterprises, Inc., a molten media-based gasifier.
ForeverGreen Enterprises, Inc. (FGE) is a development stage company that is transitioning into its implementation phase, transforming waste materials [...]