The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association today congratulated Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative (IGPC) on the official opening of its new 150 million litre ethanol plant.
“Today marks a milestone day in the production of renewable fuels in Canada. With IGPC’s new plant, Canada now produces over a billion liters of ethanol a year,” said Gordon Quaiattini, President [...]
Tenaska Solar, LLC announced an equity investment in Soltage, LLC to expand the development and use of solar-generated electricity.
Soltage, a privately-held full service renewable energy company, is based in Jersey City, N.J. The company develops, finances, installs, owns and operates solar electricity generating stations which provide electricity to businesses nationwide.
Tenaska Solar, based in Omaha, Neb., [...]
OPEL International Inc., a leading global developer and supplier of concentrating photovoltaic panels (CPVs), today announced that the Company and its partners have applied for a permit to build a solar grid field in excess of 700 kW in Spain.
Following completion of the deployment, the grid field will be owned by a third-party group acting [...]
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. However, the two electrodes [...]
Judy Chu, Ph.D., Chair of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), released figures on gasoline consumption in California showing a decline of 5.6 percent in July 2008 from July 2007.
Californians consumed 1.26 billion gallons of gasoline in July, which is 74.2 million gallons below that of July 2007.
The average California gas price at the [...]
Lead Counsel Vandim Klyuvgant for Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Absurd Conviction to Keep Khodorkovsky in Jail Despite Prosecution’s Failed Case. Verdict Destroys Hopes for the Rule of Law, Independent Courts, Protection of Property Rights and Government Anti-Corruption Drive in Russia. Defense Slams “Charade of Justice” Today a Moscow court found Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev guilty of [...]
Progress Energy Carolinas and SunEdison have signed an agreement under which SunEdison will build, own and operate a 1.2-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant on the site of the Progress Energy L.V. Sutton Plant near Wilmington and sell the energy produced to the utility for distribution to customers.
SunEdison will build the solar PV array on about [...]
TexCom, Inc. reported that its M.B. Energy, LLC subsidiary resumed operations on Monday morning following a brief shutdown over the weekend due to Hurricane Ike. Located in Chambers County, Texas, one of the areas hardest hit by Ike, M.B. Energy disposes of oil and gas production and drilling waste. Due to the self-contained nature of [...]
Zongshen PEM Power Systems Inc., announced that it has received the approval of The Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid (the “Bid”) to purchase through the facilities of the Exchange, from time to time, as it considers advisable, up to 3,065,211 of the issued and outstanding Common Shares (being approximately [...]
GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services has processed more than $5.7 million in rebates for its customers that lease hybrid or alternative fuel motor vehicles since implementing a rebate program. The rebate program is designed for customers that make significant investments in new technology to improve their environmental performance.
Since the Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2005 [...]