Largest Ground-Mounted Solar Power Tracking System East of Mississippi River Being Built at Merck & Co., Inc. Headquarters

By the end of 2008, the world headquarters of Merck & Co., Inc. in Whitehouse Station, N.J., will have the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system in the eastern half of the United States. A 1.6-megawatt SunPower solar tracking power system, comprising approximately 7,000 solar panels, will cover seven acres of Merck’s 1,000-acre... 

Major Gas and Electric Utility Selects ViryaNet to Optimize Scheduling and Field Activities

ViryaNet Limited, a leading provider of software applications that optimize business processes for field service management, today announced that a major northwest US gas and electric utility has selected the ViryaNet product to schedule, route, and manage its workforce of field technicians. This major utility provides services to customers in multiple... 

Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. Issues Stock Options

Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. announced that incentive stock options have been granted to two members of NGP’s board of directors to purchase 100,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $1.08 per share for a term of 5 years. Common shares which may be acquired upon exercise of the options shall be subject to a hold period which... 

Hanwei Executes Binding Agreements to Complete Deta Acquisition

Hanwei Energy Services Corp. announced that it has entered into binding purchase and sale agreements for the acquisition of the 99 percent equity interest in Daqing Deta Electric Co. Ltd. (“Deta”). The agreements will now be filed with the Chinese authorities to process the transfer of the 99 percent equity interest in Deta to Hanwei’s... 

Catalyst Energy and BluTrend(R) Sign Exclusive Multi-State Agreement to Offer CSASecure(R) to Multi-Family Industry

Catalyst Energy Group, the premier energy retailer to the multi-family industry and BluTrend, a leading provider of utility theft solutions for multi-family owners, today announced an exclusive multi-state agreement to offer BluTrend’s flagship CSASecure® product to multi-family customers served by Catalyst Energy Group subsidiaries nationwide. CSASecure®... 

New Generation Biofuels Awards Contract to Design Its First Full Production Biofuel Plant

New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc., a provider of renewable fuels, is pleased to announce it has awarded Chicago-based ECE Design, a design contract to develop the design for its first full production biofuel manufacturing plant, with expected capacity of 25 million gallons of second-generation biofuel a year. “ECE is pleased to be associated... 

W2 Energy Inc. to Submit Technology to Department of Energy Clean Coal Power Initiative

W2 Energy Inc. announce it will submit its Coal to Liquid technology to the DOE CCPI (Clean Coal Power Initiative) for funding. The CCPI is seeking to accelerate the commercial deployment of advanced coal technologies to supply the United States with clean, abundant and affordable energy. The funding will provide up to 340 million dollars to be distributed... 

InStep Software to Supply Enterprise Historian for South Mississippi Electric Power Association

InStep Software, LLC, a leading provider of real-time software systems and solutions, announced today that South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA) has selected InStep’s eDNA historian software to collect, store, display and report information from SMEPA’s GE XA/21 Energy Management System, Foxboro I/A DCS, and other plant control... 

GWS Technologies, Inc. to Offer Carbon Offset Program

GWS Technologies, Inc., a renewable energy technology company developing and marketing solar and wind-powered alternative energy products and solutions, today announced that it is developing a carbon offset program to help individuals and businesses participate in becoming “carbon neutral” by reducing their “carbon footprint,” which is the total... 

Northrop Grumman Announces Leadership Appointments Supporting Department of Energy Work

Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed four vice presidents to key positions with Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, a joint venture with Fluor and Honeywell Corporations, that recently won the contract to manage and operate the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC. Veasey Wilson has been appointed vice president of...