Clean Energy Fuels Acquires Texas Landfill Gas Plant to Produce Renewable Gas

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE – News) has acquired Dallas Clean Energy LLC (DCE) for approximately $19.1 million in cash from Camco International Ltd, a Jersey-based company focused on developing projects and strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Clean Energy has partnered in acquiring and operating the project with Cambrian Energy,... 

Pure Biofuels Inaugurates Its 52.5 MMgy Port Callao Biodiesel Production Facility

Pure Biofuels Corp. announced that it has opened its main biodiesel production facility at Port Callao near Lima, Peru, kicking off the event with an inaugural celebration on Friday, August 15, which was attended by the United States Ambassador to Peru Peter Michael McKinley. The facility, which has a nameplate capacity of 52.5 million gallons per year,... 

Sustainable Aviation Starts With Sustainable Policy

SANE (Sustainable Aviation Network Europe) organises on 1 September the conference “Sustainable Aviation: Sound and Climate in Perspective’ in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. International guests speak about climate measures, like the proposal for the inclusion of aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme, about biofuels and also about... 

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... 

Carrier Corp. Secures Nearly 70 Percent of HVAC Contracts for Beijing Games

Carrier Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp., achieved another milestone in its connection to the 2008 Beijing Games, securing nearly 70 percent of all heating, ventilating and air-conditioning contracts for the venues. Carrier supplied a full line of integrated systems to the Summer Games facilities, ranging from AquaSnap® air-cooled chillers... 

Cold Jet Supplies Integrated Dry Ice Production and Blast Cleaning Systems for Hanford Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant

Cold Jet, the world’s leading manufacturer of dry ice blasting and production solutions, has been selected to provide two customized integrated dry ice blasting and production systems for the Hanford Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant in Hanford, Washington. Cold Jet was contracted by Wagstaff Applied Technologies, a subcontractor to Bechtel National,... 

Hyperion Power Generation Lands Initial Set of Customers for the HPM Small, Safe, Transportable Nuclear Power Reactor

Hyperion Power Generation’s CEO, John R. “Grizz” Deal, announced today that the company has received its first Letter of Intent to purchase the Hyperion Power Module ™ (HPM), a small, compact, transportable, nuclear power reactor. The intention to purchase up to six units for various projects, at approximately $25 million each, was placed by... 

Clean Energy Joins Investment Group Funding New Natural Gas Vehicle

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has joined an investment group providing funding to help launch a new, natural gas vehicle made in the United States for taxi and paratransit use. The Company has committed a $10-million investment in an overall $160-million equity financing led by Perseus LLC, a merchant bank and private equity fund management company. Separately,... 

LOOMING EXPIRATION OF FEDERAL INCENTIVE THREATENS WIND POWER’S NEW-FOUND GROWTH: AWEA SECOND QUARTER MARKET REPORT

U.S. now leads world in wind energy generation but delay in extending federal tax credit places 2009 project pipeline on hold, discourages manufacturing investment U.S. wind farms now generate more electricity than any other nation in the world and are on track to expand by over 45% this year, but the expiration of the federal production tax credit... 

BIO Supports EPA Denial of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) provides crucial support and incentives for companies to invest in new biorefineries to bring advanced biofuels to the pump. Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President & CEO Jim Greenwood released the following statement expressing the industry’s support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...