Military Licensee Advent Power Systems Delivers Final License Fee to Cyclone Power

Cyclone Power Technologies announced that Advent Power Systems has made its final base payment to Cyclone under its Technology License Agreement. The timely delivery of this license fee secures for Advent the continuing rights to pursue power and motive applications for the Cyclone Engine with the U.S., European and Israeli military establishments,... 

Offshore wind power to contribute to Europe’s economic recovery

The European Commission recognised offshore wind energy as a key technology in Europe’s attempt to stimulate the Union’s economies. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) considers that the €500mn in “smart investment” to specific offshore projects that the EC has earmarked is money well spent. All projects are in an advanced stage of... 

European Commission announces first building-blocks of a future super-grid

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) welcomes the key role given to offshore wind energy in the European Commission’s Strategic Energy Review (SER) published this morning, and above all its commitment to publish a Blueprint for a North Sea offshore grid. With 1, 486 MW of capacity currently installed offshore and 30, 882 MW more capacity... 

SolFocus Announces Leading 25% Efficient Concentrator PV (CPV) Systems

SolFocus today announced its latest Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solution — the SolFocus 1100S. This new CPV system achieves panel efficiencies of 25% resulting in systems which produce the highest energy density and highest energy yield of photovoltaic systems available today. SolFocus customer EMPE Solar will deploy the SolFocus 1100S in... 

EDF Energies Nouvelles Orders an Additional 75 MWp in Photovoltaic Panels from First Solar

EDF Energies Nouvelles is continuing its strategy of purchasing photovoltaic panels by signing an order for a further 75 MWp in capacity from First Solar due for delivery in 2009 and 2010. This deal between EDF Energies Nouvelles and US company First Solar, which manufactures thin-film technology photovoltaic modules, comes on top of the contracts already... 

TGI Solar Power Group Inc. to Develop a 10 MW Solar Facility in the Czech Republic

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 and... 

Slovak Supreme Court Reaffirms Previous Judgment Returning Gemerska Poloma Talc Deposit to EuroGas’s Rozmin

EuroGas, Inc. announced that the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, which had previously reinstated Rozmin’s talc mining concession at Gemerska Poloma in the Slovak Republic, recently ordered an immediate halt to an appeal made by the Slovak Mining Authority at Spisska Nova Vesa,(the appellant) a unit of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak... 

Westinghouse Signs Three Groundbreaking UK Nuclear Build Supply Chain Agreements

Westinghouse Electric Company has today signed pioneering agreements with BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Doosan Babcock to collaborate on work associated with bringing the AP1000 nuclear power plant to the UK. The agreements are part of the Westinghouse strategy to “buy where we build” and are key milestones in the process which may lead to... 

Safe, Reliable, and Cost-Efficient Compressed Natural Gas Refueling Systems Use Revolutionary Ionic Liquid Pistons

Flowserve Corp., a leading global provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced it has entered into a joint venture agreement with The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company, to commercialize and deploy iKompressorTM natural gas and biogas refueling systems. Called Flowserve... 

IPWG Continues Its Quest for New Cutting Edge Technologies

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...