GE Energy to Provide Distribution Management System for EDF Energy Networks in London

GE Energy announced today that EDF Energy Networks is installing GE’s power distribution management software system to help manage EDF’s London electricity distribution network. The new distribution system completes the final phase in EDF’s integration strategy that will benefit eight million customers in the United Kingdom. Since privatization... 

Constellation Energy Serves up Wind Power for the 2008 US Open

Constellation Energy announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy (CNE), is helping to turn the court green at the 2008 US Open in Flushing, N.Y. CNE will supply an estimated 2,000 Green-e certified wind Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to match the electricity consumption at the USTA Billie... 

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... 

OMEGA Celebrates Its Solar Impulse Partnership on the Olympic Green in Beijing

Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, the co-founders of the Solar Impulse project with its ambitious goal of circumnavigating the globe in an airplane powered only by the sun, were welcomed to the OMEGA Pavilion on the Olympic Green in Beijing on Sunday, 10 August, 2008. OMEGA provides technical and capital support to Solar Impulse, sharing in the... 

Aggreko Supplies Power to Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Aggreko, the global leader in temporary power and temperature control, today played a crucial role in supporting the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Aggreko was responsible for the supply of power to both the National Stadium and the International Broadcast Center, which was responsible for transmitting the ceremony to an estimated... 

Odersun Solar-Circles Successfully Generate Power for the Olympic Park in China

Odersun AG, a developer and manufacturer of solar cells, modules and applications, has completed the delivery of customized thin-film solar modules for a building integrated photovoltaic (BiPV) project in Beijing, China. The trapezoidal modules form concentric rings on the roofs of four circular buildings belonging to the visitor center of the Olympic... 

China’s Growing Acceptance of Water-based Acrylic Coatings Energized by Rohm and Haas Innovation and Support

As China achieves greater world prominence and visibility from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, businesses throughout the country are making their own gains by embracing global standards of quality, safety and sustainability. Specialty materials company Rohm and Haas, the world’s leader in acrylic technology for nearly a century, is helping many Chinese...