Less than three months after announcing a strategic investment into thin-film photovoltaics, Masdar, the Abu Dhabi renewable energy company, yesterday broke ground on its first photovoltaic production plant in Ichtershausen, Germany.
The plant will use advanced production technologies to bring PV closer towards grid parity, and enhance a local economy with a rich history of manufacturing [...]
Global Earth Energy, Inc. anticipates the opportunity to export the biodiesel produced at their chemical plant in Leland, NC. Due to the increase in taxes on biodiesel in Germany, there has been a decrease in the production of the alternative energy fuel. With the decline of sales and production overseas, there is an excess amount [...]
ZBB Energy Corporation announced that an updated company report, including an alternative energy industry analysis, has been released by SMH Market and Liquidity Services group, an affiliate of SMH Capital Inc.
SMH Market & Liquidity Services group offers clients a service of in-depth company reporting and analysis, trading support, and strategic shareholder communication. The program is [...]
Axion Power International, Inc., a leading developer of battery technologies and advanced energy storage devices, announced today that it has received a purchase order for 92,250 flooded lead-acid batteries that it will produce over the next 11 months under a toll-manufacturing contract with a major North American battery manufacturer. The purchase order is the first [...]
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced the groundbreaking of a new PV cell production facility in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Suntech intends to complete the facility with a PV cell production capacity of 300MW by the end of 2009. The new production [...]
Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, today announced that, through the deployment of a Panasas AS3000 parallel storage solution, Geofizyka Krakow is completing seismic processing jobs up to six times faster. This performance boost positively impacts its geophysicists’ productivity by providing faster results and the opportunity to run more job iterations for [...]
Southridge Enterprises, Inc. announces that it has signed a market and investor awareness contract with investment and marketing firm, Kikomaki Corp., to bring exposure to the Asian brokerage community. The contract is for a one year period, during which Kikomaki will be featuring Southridge to the retail client bases of a number of large Asian [...]
UCN, Inc., the market leader in on-demand contact center software, has signed an agreement for inContact® Echo® with a rapidly-growing energy services company. The new customer has hundreds of agents at multiple contact center sites.
Previously the company tracked customer satisfaction levels by having the agent ask direct questions during the call. The company found they [...]
The Discover® Small Business WatchSM dropped for the second straight month as news of a congressional rescue plan failed to lift the spirits or expectations of the nation’s 22 million small business owners. The index slipped 3.2 points in October to 71.4, the lowest confidence rating since the Watch was established in August 2006.
“Faced with [...]
BPZ Resources, Inc. announces the 2011 capital expenditures plan, approximating $50 million, for continued development of the Company’s assets in northwest Peru. The majority of the capital budget is expected to be spent on offshore Block Z-1, primarily for the design and construction of an additional production platform for the Corvina oil field; as well [...]