Florida Power & Light Company is closely monitoring Fay and making preparations to restore service in the event the storm damages the electrical infrastructure in its service territory. FPL is urging its customers to take safety precautions and prepare for the potential of power outages.
“There are still uncertainties in both the forecast track and intensity, [...]
Green Earth Technologies, a leading green consumer goods manufacturer, has entered into an agreement with Rotary Corporation, the global leader in outdoor power equipment replacement parts, to offer G-OIL™ 2-Cycle Green Engine Oil for their customers. The 2-Cycle G-OIL™ is a “Green Solution” made with American-Grown Base Oils and meets the ASTM Standard of ultimate [...]
Cleanfield Energy Corp a subsidiary of Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. announces that its project partner, McMaster University, has been awarded a Collaborative Research and Development grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
The project received funding for $236,000 over the next 3 years and is intended to further the research of [...]
Green Energy Resources, Inc. has signed a European supply contract for $21 million. The order is effective immediately. Orders for the fourth quarter 2008, the 1st quarter 2009 and all of 2009 will meet or exceed the company’s target objectives. Reduced international shipping freight rates, lower fuel costs and a relatively strong euro-dollar have set [...]
Shiny new electric vehicles, emitting only low-whirring sounds, glistened as they darted among the few sun breaks in Seattle outside a Cascadia Center conference titled Beyond Oil: The Sustainable Communities Initiative.
The all-electric Ford Focus made its debut at the late-October event, co-sponsored by Idaho National Laboratory. Ford’s Focus added to a charged atmosphere around [...]
Plantation Energy, Australia’s only manufacturer and exporter of Densified Biomass Fuel (DBF) pellets, and Denham Capital announced that Denham will make up to a US$80 million equity investment in Plantation. Initial proceeds will go towards funding the construction of a new manufacturing plant in Albany, Western Australia. The investment will give Denham majority ownership of [...]
Vanner Inc., a manufacturer of electrical power conversion products, has selected Maxwell Technologies’ BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitor modules to provide burst power for a retrofit diesel engine starter system that Vanner has won a contract to install in Chicago transit buses.
David Schramm, Maxwell’s president and chief executive officer, said that Vanner is purchasing 460 16-volt BMOD0500 modules [...]
The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded Johnson Controls-Saft a contract valued at $8.2 million. The contract will focus on the development of lithium-ion battery systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and over the course of two years will seek to validate the commercial [...]
Denbury Resources Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with a privately owned company to purchase a 91.4% interest in Conroe Field, a significant potential tertiary flood north of Houston, Texas, for $600 million, plus additional potential consideration if oil prices exceed $121 per barrel during the next three years as further [...]
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 for development.
Ramgen is developing game-changing compressor technology that applies proven [...]