Dr Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday met with the Young Future Energy Leaders (YFEL) on the second day of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES). The meeting was part of the YFEL program for WFES 2011, which provides the bright talent in the renewable energy and sustainability space with the [...]
The Young Future Energy Leaders (YFEL), a program of the Masdar Institute, committed to raising awareness and engaging students and young professionals in the renewable energy and sustainability fields, announces its program and sponsors for 2011.
Growing support from the private sector, including local companies such as Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC), Abu Dhabi National Oil [...]
Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced that it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power flywheels that operated together to absorb and supply a full megawatt of electricity. The system, located in Beacon’s Tyngsboro [...]
With a vested interest in conducting business in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, Kraft Foods has placed sustainability at center stage. Two of its New York cheese plants took leading roles today, as Kraft announced completion of waste-to-energy projects [...]
Electro Energy Inc., a leading provider of advanced battery technologies and associated systems, announced today that Lyntronics, Inc., a New York based battery packager, has placed multiple orders for both Electro Energy’s 2.2 ampere hour USA18650AXC and 2.4 ampere hour USA18650BXC type rechargeable Lithium-Ion cells valued at over $100,000. These orders were placed after successful [...]
South Korean-based SK Engineering and Construction (SKEC) is using Quadrem solutions to manage sourcing and procurement communications with an international community of 5,000 suppliers. Approximately 300 to 400 tenders are expected to be issued by SKEC to support a gas train project it’s undertaking in the Middle East for a national petroleum company.
“We chose Quadrem [...]
Gasoline prices fell another 7 cents last week in Texas as the average price for a gallon of gasoline dropped below $3.74 a gallon. That’s down nearly a quarter from the record average high of nearly $3.99 a gallon on July 17th. Nationally prices fell to $3.85 a gallon, down 26 cents a gallon since [...]
VIASPACE Inc. exhibited its products and met with current and potential customers and business partners at the Fuel Cell Seminar held in Phoenix, AZ October 28-30, 2008. With 1700 attendees, the Fuel Cell Seminar is the largest fuel cell technical meeting and exhibition in the United States.
VIASPACE and its subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation [...]
Sustainable Power Corp. announce that it has received its initial payment on the 7,000 gallons of biocrude that was purchased by the company’s strategic partner, Envirocompanies, Inc. This payment represents the beginning of the income stream for Sustainable Power Corp. from its products. The biocrude is further refined and processed into BG100 biogas, jet fuel, [...]
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 of priority towards [...]