Advanced Electron Beams (AEB), which enables the green factory of the future by making sustainability possible and profitable for manufacturers, and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne today announced a collaboration in which the University will use AEB’s electron beam technology for fundamental research on electron beam-induced chemistry and materials transformation. This research has a wide [...]
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Blue Source LLC today announced a strategic alliance that combines Goldman’s global leadership in commodities trading and financial risk management with Blue Source’s leading climate change portfolio. As part of the alliance, Goldman Sachs has purchased an equity stake in Blue Source LLC.
Goldman Sachs will off-take, structure and market [...]
Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), the nation’s largest power supply cooperative, today announced plans to build as many as three 100 megawatt (MW) biomass electric generating facilities in Georgia. Designed to utilize woody biomass, one of the state’s most abundant renewable resources, the power plants will be carbon-neutral and provide power to OPC’s 38 member cooperatives, [...]
AMR Research released a study that found that China is the region that contributes the most risk to global supply chains. The survey, which asked 130 global companies to measure the levels of risk they face in their global supply chains, also found that volatile fuel, energy, and commodity prices are the top risk factors.
Survey [...]
Tenaris S.A. announced that it plans to increase its production capacity by installing a state-of-the-art small diameter rolling mill up to 7″ with an annual production capacity of 450,000 tons of seamless pipes at its industrial facilities located in Veracruz, Mexico. The installation of the mill, together with associated iron and steel making and finishing [...]
Global Supplies has awarded Curtiss-Wright Corporation a multi-million dollar contract for 10 top and bottom DeltaGuard automated coke drum unheading systems. The units are expected to be installed at the Essar Oil Vadinar Refinery located in Gujarat, India by October 2009.
“Curtiss-Wright is a worldwide leader in delivering unique solutions that ensure safety and improve [...]
Euro BioEnergy Holdings, a European biomass development platform, today announced the acquisition of German biomass power plant Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen GmbH from its former owners Sturm Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Fortum Power Holding B.V., and Ingenieurburo Oskar von Miller GmbH. Financial details were not disclosed.
Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen GmbH owns and operates the Herbrechtingen BioHKW [...]
Site Selection magazine has named Progress Energy one of North America’s Top Utilities for Economic Development for the sixth time in the last seven years.
The magazine’s September 2008 issue selected Progress Energy as one of 10 winning utilities based on its success in helping to generate 7,405 new jobs and more than $766 million in [...]
Linde Nippon Sanso announced that it has been awarded the exclusive contract to supply high purity gases to Spain’s first thin film solar cell manufacturing plant set up by T-Solar S.A. in Ourense, Galicia (Spain).
Under this agreement, Linde Nippon Sanso will provide T-Solar with turnkey installation of the plant’s bulk and special gases supply systems [...]
Laidlaw Energy Group, Inc., through its affiliate, Laidlaw Berlin BioPower, LLC, announced that it has reached agreement with Public Service Company of New Hampshire (“PSNH”) on the material terms of a contemplated 20-year power purchase agreement for Laidlaw’s Berlin, New Hampshire Biomass Energy Project. The agreement between the parties contemplates the sale of 100% of [...]