PJM Moves Toward Pay-for-Performance Pricing

Beacon Power Corporation a leading provider of fast-response energy storage systems and services to support a more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid, announced that the PJM Interconnection recently began the formal process to implement pay-for-performance regulation pricing in its geographic area, the largest electricity market in the... 

MagneGas Gains Legislative Exposure With Congressman’s Visit, Subsequent Announcement

MagneGas Corporation the producer of a technology that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based metal working fuel and natural gas alternative, announced today that Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis visited the Company during the week of January 5th. After receiving a tour and comprehensive demonstration of the Company’s newest Refinery, Congressman... 

U.S. Department of Energy Awards Momentive $4.5 Million Grant

Momentive Performance Materials will receive $4.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue the development of breakthrough technology for the low cost production of light emitting diodes (LEDs) used in solid state lighting (SSL) and for increased LED light source performance. LED lights can consume 75 percent less energy... 

OriginOil Announces the Completion of Phase 1 Research Project with Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory

OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced the completion of Phase 1 of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL). OriginOil... 

Mascoma Expanding Its Leadership Team as Company Accelerates Towards Commercialization

Mascoma Corporation announced several management reconfigurations, as the company moves into its commercial development phase. Mascoma has developed proprietary technology, called Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP), which enables the production of sustainable, low carbon cellulosic ethanol. This technology has been proven in Mascoma’s Rome, New York... 

BrassCraft Patent Brings New Era of Safety to Natural Gas Use

BrassCraft’s patented Safety+PLUS® Excess Flow Valve promises to usher in a new standard of safety for natural gas. With more than 65 million homes in the United States alone utilizing natural gas for their water heaters, furnaces, boilers, heaters and other applications, the patented Safety+PLUS Excess Flow Valve from BrassCraft will be a welcome... 

Puget Sound Energy Purchases Mint Farm Power Plant

Puget Sound Energy last week completed the $240 million purchase of a 310-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in Longview, Wash., the latest step in the utility’s long-range effort to ensure a reliable, cost-effective energy supply for its growing customer base in Western Washington. PSE signed an agreement in September to buy the 11-month-old... 

Plug Power Partners With National Grid for Combined Heat and Power Fuel Cell Field Trial

Plug Power Inc., a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, and National Grid, an international natural gas and electric utility, today announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct the first field trial of Plug Power’s new micro-CHP (combined heat and power) GenSys(r) fuel cell system. Fueled by natural... 

N-Viro International Corp. Forms Joint Venture to Operate N-Viro Fuel Facility in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio

N-Viro International Corp.,, an environmental and materials handling company that owns patented technologies that convert various types of wastes into the renewable biofuel N-Viro Fuel(TM), has formed a joint venture with SouthSide Environmental Group, a subsidiary of Schimley’s Excavating, Inc., to jointly construct, manage and operate an N-Viro... 

ZBB Energy Corporation Announces Dissolution of ZBB China Pty Ltd Joint Venture

ZBB Energy Corporation announced that the co-operative joint venture agreement between China Century Capital Limited (formerly China Century Group Limited) (CCC) and ZBB was terminated by mutual agreement on October 2, 2008. The effect of this termination is to cancel the exclusive manufacturing, marketing and distribution rights granted by ZBB to the...