E6 Ventures Wins Investment for Spin Out Company, Diamond Detectors

Diamond Detectors Ltd, a subsidiary company set up by Element Six to manufacture innovative diamond detectors and sensors for radiation monitoring applications, today announces that BAE Systems is to take a 50% holding in Diamond Detectors Ltd, investing up to GBP2 million. The second round investment will offer Diamond Detectors strategic support and... 

Meridium Debuts New Asset Health Monitoring Solution

Meridium Inc., the global leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, released its newest solution, Asset Health Indicators, in v3.3.1 of its APM software package. Meridium’s Asset Health Indicator (AHI) solution is an extension to Meridium’s Asset Strategy Management application and provides the ability... 

Strategy Analytics Sees Emerging Consumer Energy Market Opportunities

In a recent six country study of consumers and their evolving energy strategies, French consumers showed the greatest interest in reducing their carbon footprint and improving the energy efficiency of their homes and cars. Covering the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the US, this Strategy Analytics report, “Benchmarking Consumer Energy Profiles... 

Dresser-Rand Invests In the Development of Game-Changing Compressor Technology Focused on Green Energy

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. announced that Dresser-Rand has made an investment in Ramgen Power Systems, LLC, and further expects to support Ramgen’s ongoing development work. Dresser-Rand’s funding will help satisfy Ramgen’s requirement with the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Lab to obtain private matching funds... 

Solar Thin Films, Inc. Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Algatec Solar AG

Solar Thin Films, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of manufacturing equipment for the production of “thin-film” amorphous silicon photovoltaic solar modules, has entered into a share exchange agreement to acquire Algatec Solar AG (“Algatec”), a German company that produces and markets metallurgic silicon crystalline... 

Yingli Green Energy Signs New Long-Term Polysilicon Supply Agreement with Wacker Chemie AG

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced it has entered into a new long-term polysilicon supply agreement with Wacker Chemie AG. Under this agreement, Wacker Chemie will supply Yingli Green Energy with polysilicon from 2010 through the end... 

BIO Urges EPA to Complete Sound Scientific Review Before Publishing Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimates for Biofuels

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must establish a sound, science-based model for measuring net greenhouse gas emissions related to biofuels production before releasing estimates that may understate the positive role biofuels play in reducing climate change emissions. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today released a letter sent... 

Argus Launches Price Assessments for Sakhalin Island Vityaz and Sokol Crudes

Argus, the international energy price reporting agency, has launched daily price assessments for Vityaz and Sokol crude oil from Russia’s Sakhalin island. Argus is the first price reporting service to offer daily assessments of Vityaz, whose output is expected to be around 90,000 b/d this year, rising to an expected plateau of 150,000 b/d from... 

Dresser-Rand Names Ray Carney Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

Dresser-Rand Group Inc., announced that Ray Carney has been elected Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer to succeed Lonnie Arnett, who is retiring. Carney joined Dresser-Rand in August 2008 as Corporate Controller, and has been working with Lonnie Arnett, Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, to transition responsibilities.... 

V. James Sardo Named Chairman of Board of Directors of SonnenEnergy Corp.

SonnenEnergy Corp., a leading photovoltaic solar power systems integrator and solar power producer, is pleased to announce that V. James Sardo has been named Chairman of the SonnenEnergy Board of Directors. Mr. Sardo succeeds Jeff Dennis, who will continue as director of SonnenEnergy and in his role as SonnenEnergy’s President and Chief Executive...