A Russian minister said BP’s experience in cleaning up the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill was one of the reasons Russia chose the British oil firm to help develop its fragile Arctic shelf oil fields.
BP and Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft on Friday agreed to a multi-billion-dollar share swap, under which they will jointly explore for [...]
Ash Grove Cement Company manufacturing plants in Kansas and Washington earned the federal government’s prestigious Energy Star Award for the company’s superior performance in management of energy use.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gave the award to Ash Grove in special recognition of the company’s energy-efficient operations in Chanute, [...]
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 site.
Through a [...]
Novaled developed a 15×15 cm white OLED device with a thickness of less than 2 mm. Die Struktur der OLED stack allows for a natural and warm white light performing a very high color rendering index (CRI) of 90. The perception of this light is similar to sunlight or what is delivered by incandescent bulbs. [...]
Agresti Biofuels announced that it will begin contract negotiations with Pike County, Ky. for the first commercial municipal solid waste (MSW) to cellulosic ethanol production facility in the United States. The facility and process are completely clean — air and water will not be polluted — and waste materials like plastics, rubber and metal will [...]
Smartcool Systems Inc., report that the Company’s subsidiary, Smartcool Systems E.M.E.A. Ltd. has received a purchase order from their sub-distributor, Smartcool Systems (Israel) Ltd., regarding Bezeq The Israel Telecommunication Corp. Limited and the installation of the Energy Savings Module (ESM(TM)) in its facility in Tel Aviv. The order was received upon successful completion of an [...]
Profile Technologies, Inc. announce that it has been awarded a contract with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) to provide cased pipeline integrity assessments at eight road crossings in Northern California using the EMW-C™. This contract marks a return for the Company to provide these services to PG&E as a follow-up to a recent contract [...]
Dejour Enterprises Ltd. announces that it has closed its previously announced offerings of units, with each unit consisting of one common share and one half of one common share purchase warrants. Dejour issued 9,176,667 common shares and 4,588,334 common share purchase warrants in the offerings, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately US$2.75 million.
A portion of [...]
Startech Environmental Corp., a fully reporting, internationally recognized Award-winning Environment and Energy company, announced today that its hydrogen-fueled engine producing electricity is operational and available for demonstrations at Startech’s Tech Center in Bristol, Connecticut.
Joseph F. Longo, Startech’s president, said “The line-up has started for demonstrations for our Customers, Distributors, Sales Representatives and also for the [...]
Consumers Energy has secured more than 28,000 acres of easements in Tuscola and Mason counties for potential wind generation development and is starting the process of testing sites.
Construction started today on four meteorological towers in Mason County and three towers in Tuscola County. Construction of the towers, which are about 180 feet tall, is expected [...]