Dominion Retail Completes Purchase of Texas REP Cirro Energy

Dominion Retail, an energy marketing subsidiary of Dominion, has closed on the purchase of Cirro Energy, a Texas retail electric provider (REP). Cirro Energy was founded in 2001 to provide superior customer service and substantial savings to business and residential customers throughout the deregulated areas of Texas. Cirro Energy supplies about 2.3... 

Beacon Power Announces Testing of First Megawatt of Flywheel Energy Storage

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 it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power flywheels that operated together to absorb and supply a full megawatt of electricity. The system, located... 

QuantumSphere Files Key Patent On Revolutionary Technology to Increase Lithium Ion (Li-ion) Battery Life

QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, electrode devices, and related technologies and systems for portable power and clean-energy applications, today announced that it has filed a key patent for technology it has developed that extends the capacity of rechargeable lithium ion batteries up to five times. Next-generation... 

Titan Energy Worldwide Sentry 5000(TM) Mobile Utility System Makes Gulf Coast Debut in Aftermath of Hurricane Gustav

Titan Energy Worldwide, Inc., a leader in manufacturing, marketing and servicing of energy generation products and services, announced that the Company’s Sentry 5000(TM) Mobile Utility System was successfully deployed in critical situations after Hurricane Gustav made landfall along the Gulf Coast earlier this month, including operation at the... 

William Blair & Company Publishes Two Reports on the Energy Industry

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. announced the publication of two comprehensive reports on the energy industry—one covering alternative power generation, titled “Next-Generation Energy Technology,” and the other focusing on replacement fuels and alternative transportation, titled “Alternative Energy in the Transportation Sector: Fossil Fuels... 

Suntech Announces Groundbreaking of PV Cell Production Facility in Yangzhou, China

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced the groundbreaking of a new PV cell production facility in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Suntech intends to complete the facility with a PV cell production capacity of 300MW by the end of 2009. The new production... 

Shaw Adds Palisades Plant to its Entergy Nuclear Maintenance Contract

The Shaw Group Inc. announced today that the Maintenance Division of its Power Group has expanded its existing contract with Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, to provide nuclear maintenance services at the 798-megawatt Entergy Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven, Mich. With the addition of the Entergy... 

AmerenUE Crews Wrap Up Power Restoration in St. Louis City and County; Resources Being Poured Into Southeast Missouri

AmerenUE crews restored more than 86,000 Missouri customers since storms from Hurricane Ike hit the area yesterday (Sunday). Approximately 4,300 St. Louis City and County customers remain without power; most are expected to be restored today. Employees from three other Midwestern utility companies are coming into UE’s service territory to help... 

FirstEnergy Continues Restoration Efforts to Approximately One Million Customers Affected by Severe Wind Storm

Unexpected high winds that moved through northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon, September 14, interrupted electric service to approximately one million customers of FirstEnergy Corp.’s Ohio Edison and Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company subsidiaries in Ohio, and Penn Power and Penelec subsidiaries in western Pennsylvania.... 

Global Power Equipment Group Inc. Announces Plans to Release Financial Information

Global Power Equipment Group Inc. announced that it plans to release publicly audited financial statements for fiscal 2006 and 2007 and interim financial information for the first six months of 2008 by the end of November of this year. This release is part of a voluntary effort by Global Power to provide current financial information to the public on...