Goodrich Donates Icing Wind Tunnel to Iowa State University

January 22, 2009 Category: Wind Energy
Goodrich Donates Icing Wind Tunnel to Iowa State University

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... 

Sierra Club Asks Federal Court to Cut Off Power to Holland, Michigan Community

December 19, 2008 Category: Energy Efficiency, Energy Prices, Energy Saving

The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court asking for a court-ordered shutdown of the community-owned electrical generating plant in Holland, Michigan. The complaint, filed against the City of Holland and the Holland Board of Public Works on December 15, alleges that normal maintenance and repair work done at the... 

N-Viro International Corp. Forms Joint Venture to Operate N-Viro Fuel Facility in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio

November 13, 2008 Category: Biofuel Energy, Renewable Energy

N-Viro International Corp.,, an environmental and materials handling company that owns patented technologies that convert various types of wastes into the renewable biofuel N-Viro Fuel(TM), has formed a joint venture with SouthSide Environmental Group, a subsidiary of Schimley’s Excavating, Inc., to jointly construct, manage and operate an N-Viro... 

Solar EnerTech Completes Second Solar Cell Production Line

October 27, 2008 Category: Energy Companies, Solar Energy

Solar EnerTech Corp. announced that the Company recently completed the build out of its second solar cell production line. The new 25 MW solar cell production line is located at the Company’s solar cell manufacturing facility in Shanghai and the addition of this new line doubles the company’s solar cell production capacity from 25MW to 50MW. “The... 

Modine to Scale Back Vehicular HVAC Business through Intended Divestment of Modine Korea

October 22, 2008 Category: Energy Management, Geothermal Energy

Modine Manufacturing Company, a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced strategic plans to scale back its focus on the global vehicular HVAC market through the intended divestiture of its Korean-based vehicular HVAC business. The Company’s Korea subsidiary includes standalone vehicular HVAC research... 

Constellation Energy and Alabama Officials Celebrate Construction Renewal at Hillabee Power Plant

October 14, 2008 Category: Electricity, Natural Gas, Renewable Energy

Constellation Energy recently joined with key representatives from Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, and the state of Alabama in a ceremony recognizing the restart of construction at the 774-megawatt Hillabee Power Plant in Alexander City. Constellation Energy purchased the partially completed natural gas plant from Calpine Corporation in February... 

PGE And Confederated Tribes to Restore Fish Passage in Deschutes River Basin

August 26, 2008 Category: Electricity

For the first time in 40 years, salmon and steelhead could soon be swimming their way down the Metolius, Crooked and upper Deschutes Rivers as a result of new equipment now in advanced stages of construction. Portland General Electric (PGE) (NYSE:POR) and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, co-owners of the Pelton Round...