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 [...]
Buckeye Partners, L.P. announced that its subsidiary, Buckeye Albany Terminal LLC, completed the acquisition of an ethanol and petroleum products distribution terminal located in Albany, New York from LogiBio Albany Terminal, LLC, an affiliate of U.S. Oil Co., Inc. and LogiBio, LLC, for cash consideration of approximately $46.5 million. Additional consideration of $1.5 million will [...]
Reliant Energy announced today it has reached an agreement to sell the Northeastern electricity marketing assets of its retail subsidiaries, Reliant Energy Solutions East and Reliant Energy Solutions Northeast, to Hess Corporation.
These subsidiaries provide electricity and related services to more than 300 commercial and industrial customers in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and [...]
Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, announced that it has been selected by Enel to supply control and automation technology for the world’s first hydrogen-fuelled power plant, to be constructed in Fusina, near Venice in the Veneto region of Italy. Enel is Italy’s largest power company with more than 50 [...]
Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services for homes and commercial buildings, will be prominently represented in Boston as the city welcomes the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo on Nov.19-21 in the Boston Convention and Expo Center (BCEC).
As a platinum sponsor for the third consecutive year, [...]
Linn Energy, LLC announced today that it has closed the previously announced sale of certain oil and gas properties in the Verden area of Oklahoma to Laredo Petroleum, Inc. for a contract price of $185 million, subject to closing adjustments.
Linn Energy is an independent oil and gas company focused on the development and acquisition of [...]
RCG LLC, developer of East Mill, and tenant Nexamp, Inc., a veteran-owned energy and carbon solutions company, recently completed extensive onsite renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. These green energy upgrades make Nexamp’s corporate office a “beyond zero net-energy” workplace: a rare facility that produces more energy than it consumes. The improvements at East Mill [...]
Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, has delivered the last of nearly 100 separate documents in its application for a loan guarantee to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program Office and moved into the next stage [...]
The Government of Alberta and Earth Day Canada (EDC) have established a new collaboration to help Albertans take environmental action in their homes. EDC’s EcoAction Teams (EAT) and Alberta Environment’s One Simple Act (OSA) programs are working together to build environmental awareness and conservation in every Alberta home. The initiative is designed to further sustainable [...]
Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. today declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.47 per unit. The distribution, which equates to $1.88 per unit on an annualized basis, remains unchanged from the distribution paid with respect to the prior quarter. The quarterly distribution covers the period October 1 through December 31, 2010, and is [...]