XcelPlus Global Holdings, Inc. announces that it has recently signed a Letter of Intent with Total-Fuels of Las Vegas, Nevada and two developing partners for worldwide marketing rights to their patented technology.
The technology allows normal cars to use both E85 and gasoline with the same ease as a new car manufacturer does. The automatic unit [...]
Entergy Corporation utilities are restoring power to customers affected by Hurricane Gustav at the fastest rate in the company’s history.
“We have restored power to more customers in four days than we ever have before. Our restoration rate surpasses that accomplished following either hurricanes Katrina or Rita,” said Randy Helmick, vice president of transmission, who is [...]
Covanta Holding Corporation, a world leader in development, operation and ownership of Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy facilities, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase two biomass energy facilities from co-owners Ridgewood Maine, L.L.C. and Indeck Energy Services, Inc.
The two nearly identical facilities, located in West Enfield and Jonesboro Maine, will add [...]
Emerging gasification technologies could rapidly advance gasification deployment in the next five to ten years and are being used in advanced, modular systems that significantly reduce capital and plant-operating costs. Prefabricated-gasification systems are easily built and transported to the site.
Pending CO2 laws have also created an opportunity for advanced-gasification technologies to be fully developed by [...]
Hong Kong Highpower Technology, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and related products, today announced the groundbreaking of its new Ni-MH battery manufacturing facility in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China and commencement of building construction on site plans that have been environmentally certified.
In February 2007, the Company acquired [...]
Simon Property Group, Inc., the country’s largest owner, developer and manager of high quality retail real estate, has just last month completed the largest solar installation by a mall owner in the U.S. Simon Property Group entered into a power purchase agreement with Element Markets, a Houston-based developer of clean energy, for the output of [...]
Interline Resources Corporation announced that is has reached agreement to delay interest payments for financing on its NorthCut Refinery.
A spokesman for Interline Resources stated, “Discussions with Private Capital Group (PCG), the constructing lending source for the NorthCut Refinery, has led to a joint agreement to delay the payment of accrued interest on construction financing to [...]
Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), the nation’s largest power supply cooperative, today announced plans to build as many as three 100 megawatt (MW) biomass electric generating facilities in Georgia. Designed to utilize woody biomass, one of the state’s most abundant renewable resources, the power plants will be carbon-neutral and provide power to OPC’s 38 member cooperatives, [...]
Sustainable Power Corp. announced that it has reached an agreement with Texas Power Systems, a division of TPS Houston Group LLC, pursuant to which SSTP will acquire a 30% interest in TPS.
TPS Houston Group, LLC was formed in August 2004, to acquire, remanufacture, service, sell and distribute power generators to meet the needs for power [...]
BP and Verenium Corporation announced the creation of a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. The partnership combines a broad technology platform and operational capabilities in an effort to advance the development of a portfolio of low-cost, environmentally sound cellulosic ethanol production facilities in the United States, and potentially throughout [...]