Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power

Texas has long been home to Big Oil companies that specialize in extracting petroleum from hard-to-reach places. Now the hip college town of Austin is vying to become the epicenter of a potentially giant market for carbon-free electricity generated by the hot Texas sun. The rest of Texas may follow, if the state legislature passes incentives that will... 

Cetrel and Novozymes to Make Biogas and Electricity from Bagasse

Cetrel, the largest provider of environmental solutions for the manufacturing industry in Latin America, and Novozymes, the world’s leading producer of industrial enzymes, today announced a research partnership to turn sugarcane waste into green energy. Using Cetrel’s know-how in waste-stream treatment and Novozymes’ biotech expertise, the partners... 

Green Energy Live Targets $154 Billion U.S. Livestock Industry for Sustainable Biomass-to-Energy Technology Development

Green Energy Live Inc. is focused on developing sustainable biomass-to-energy conversion technology to meet a critical need for the nation’s $154 billion livestock industry. Green Energy Live is utilizing proprietary gasification technology for the development of highly innovative, on-site manure-to-electricity conversion systems to enable America’s... 

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Big things often come in small packages. That’s certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory. Steve Herring, technical director of the High Temperature Electrolysis Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, holds in his hand a solid-oxide electrolysis cell no larger than a standard CD.... 

DTE Biomass Energy Project Begins in Ohio

Bellefontaine Gas Producers LLC today started commercial operation of its landfill gas-to-energy project at the Republic Services-owned Cherokee Run Landfill here. The renewable energy project is owned by Bellefontaine Gas Producers LLC, which is a joint venture between DTE Biomass Energy and Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Inc. The project,... 

Horizon Wind Energy Announces Commercial Operation of Three Wind Farms

Horizon Wind Energy, owned by EDP Renovaveis, the fourth largest wind energy producer in the world, fully commissioned over 500 megawatts (MW) in December of 2008. The 201 MW Meridian Way Wind Farm, located in north central Kansas in Cloud County, the 102.9 megawatt (MW) Rattlesnake Road Wind Farm located near the city of Arlington in Gilliam County,... 

Reliant Energy Closes on Previously Announced Sale of Northeastern Marketing Assets to Hess Corporation

Reliant Energy has completed the previously announced sale of the Northeastern electricity marketing assets of its retail subsidiaries, Reliant Energy Solutions East and Reliant Energy Solutions Northeast, to Hess Corporation. Reliant Energy, Inc. based in Houston, provides electricity and energy services to retail and wholesale customers in the United... 

China Energy Expands Heating Supply Capacity

China Energy Corporation, a leading producer of coal, heat, and electricity in Inner Mongolia, China, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the construction of new facilities in an ongoing expansion of its heating supply capacity. “The addition of 14 new heat transfer stations to our heat supply network has greatly increased... 

Peabody Energy Earns ‘Award of Excellence’ and ‘Strategic Energy Investment of the Year’ at Global Energy Awards

An international panel of judges has presented Peabody Energy with dual honors at the 10th Global Energy Awards in New York City: The Award of Excellence honors Peabody’s industry leadership, and the Strategic Energy Investment of the Year recognizes Peabody’s global transformation to capitalize on high-growth, high-margin markets. The Award... 

Tethys Petroleum Limited: Cooperation Agreement Signed With “INTER RAO UES OJSC”

Tethys Petroleum Limited announced the signature of a Memorandum of Intent on Cooperation with the Russian energy company “INTER RAO UES OJSC” concerning cooperation in Kazakhstan and other parts of Central Asia. Specifically the MOI concerns Tethys and “INTER RAO UES OJSC” cooperating and negotiating in good faith as a matter...