CMAI Completes 2009 World Polyolefins Analysis

Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) announces the completion of the 2009 World Polyolefins Analysis. This market study provides clients with a historical perspective and insight into the forecast of supply and demand dynamics, production capacity, trade patterns, pricing relationships, profitability, production economics and technology for global... 

Ducker Worldwide Predicts Problems for the Domestic Wind Power Industry, Despite Recent Tax Credit Incentives

Although the recent renewal of Production and Investment Tax Credits for alternative energy will provide additional incentive for wind power development, prospects for turbine makers, suppliers, developers, and utilities remain uncertain. Based on recent industry research, Ducker Worldwide believes the industry will continue to struggle with several... 

Waterborne Energy Points to Drop in Algerian LNG Production as Key in Summer Spot Price Spike

Ongoing production challenges at Sonatrach’s aging Algerian LNG complex has played a role in the recent record global spike in LNG prices experienced this summer, according to Waterborne Energy, a Houston-based consulting firm that specializes in LNG markets. “In April, it was reported that production would be reduced at Arzew due to scheduled maintenance,”... 

IPS to Supply Control Technology to World’s First Hydrogen Power Plant

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... 

PowerSecure Announces Basil Briggs Retires as Chairman, Anthony Pell Assumes Post

PowerSecure International, Inc. today announced that Basil M. Briggs, 72, who has served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of the Company since April 2007 and on the Board of Directors of the Company since 1991, has retired for health reasons. The Board has appointed Anthony D. Pell, an independent director who has served on the Board since... 

Award-winning Geologist to Announce Hi-Tech Inventions for Smooth Transition to Greener World and Sustainable Economy

Kenneth Hsu Consulting (KHC) announce a Press & Investor Conference at The Geological Society of London on 30th October 2008 at 10am (doors open 9.45am) to present the company’s technological inventions, to alleviate the global water, energy, environmental, climate and economic crises. Wasteful exploitation of Earth’s resources and... 

Sweco to Examine Stockholm’s Future Energy Supply

Sweco has been chosen to perform a system analysis of the entire Stockholm region’s future energy supply. The goal is to develop proposals that are favourable from both an energy and climate perspective. Sweco will formulate a number of clearly defined courses of action and strategies that will enable the Stockholm region to minimise its energy usage... 

Piedmont Natural Gas Selects Century City Site For New Nashville Operations Center

Charlotte-based Piedmont Natural Gas has selected a site in Davidson County for its new Nashville operations center. Construction on Piedmont’s new Century City facility will begin later this year and should be completed sometime in the spring or summer of 2010. The Company employs approximately 210 people locally, and serves more than 170,000... 

Applied Materials Activates Largest Solar Deployment on a Corporate Campus in U.S.

Applied Materials and SunPower Corporation announced completion of two SunPower solar power systems totaling 2.1 megawatts at Applied Materials’ corporate facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. The systems represent the largest solar power deployment at a corporate facility in the United States. “This is another exciting milestone in the adoption... 

Shaw Adds Palisades Plant to its Entergy Nuclear Maintenance Contract

The Shaw Group Inc. announced today that the Maintenance Division of its Power Group has expanded its existing contract with Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, to provide nuclear maintenance services at the 798-megawatt Entergy Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven, Mich. With the addition of the Entergy...