Hydrogen Hybrid, Corp. Endorses California’s Offering to Truckers of Over One Billion Dollars in Funding for Converting Their Semi Trucks

Hydrogen Hybrid, Corp. announced their endorsement of the California state government’s plan to offer $1 billion in funding to offset the costs of complying with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed regulations. The two proposed regulations would reduce toxic and greenhouse gas emissions by requiring retrofits for newer diesel trucks... 

GreenSmith Launches Intelligent Distributed Energy Storage System (DESS)

GreenSmith Energy Management Systems, Inc., a leading innovator of intelligent Distributed Energy Storage Systems (DESS), unveiled its proprietary battery unit which shifts electricity load from peak-to off-peak. The storage system allows utilities to realize measurable reliability and cost benefits by recognizing immediate advantages of the peak versus... 

City of Glendale, CA Contracts with Clean Energy to Build, Operate New CNG Fueling Station

The City of Glendale, California has awarded a 10-year contract to Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to build, operate and maintain a new large-scale public access compressed natural gas (CNG) station to support the City’s CNG vehicle fleets and serve surrounding communities. The planned Clean Energy-owned facility is designed to serve a range of light, medium... 

Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds

Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And... 

Exelon Plays Leadership Role in 2008 Wharton Energy Conference

Exelon is playing a leadership role at today’s Wharton Energy Conference, which brings together more than 200 energy industry thought leaders and business school students for a meaningful discussion about the future of energy. “Exelon has been a proud sponsor of this event for three years in a row,” said Delia Stroud, vice president of public... 

Tufts University Grants Exclusive Commercial Rights to Electric Truck, LLC, for Mileage-Increasing Transportation Technology

Electric Truck, LLC (ET) and Tufts University’s Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration (OTL&IC) today announced that ET has exclusively optioned commercial rights to a technology that can recharge the batteries of any hybrid electric and electric-powered vehicle while it is driven. The Tufts-developed technology could increase... 

Verizon Makes Its Pennsylvania Fleet ‘Greener’ With 15 Hybrid Vehicles in Philadelphia

Verizon is rolling out 15 hybrid sedans to help conserve fuel and significantly reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in this city. The new vehicles are among the 100 hybrid sedans Verizon is adding to its motor vehicle fleet in seven states and Washington, D.C., replacing gasoline-powered sedans. These hybrid sedans are in addition to the 100 hybrids... 

Border Valley Converts Fleet to Clean Fuel with ALT LNG

Applied LNG Technologies USA, LLC announced an agreement to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Border Valley Trading for use in their new fleet of LNG fueled trucks used in the distribution of their feed products. Border Valley, founded with a primary goal of becoming the best export forage company in the industry, is now one of the largest exporters... 

Dow Announces Energy Plan for America

The Dow Chemical Company called for a bolder, comprehensive, bipartisan national energy policy that will help stabilize prices, strengthen the economy, increase security, clean the environment and revitalize U.S. manufacturing with the release of Dow’s Energy Plan for America. “The new Administration and Congress will need to implement a... 

Cyclone Power Technologies Files Patent Application for Waste Heat Engine

Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on its production prototype waste heat engine (WHE). The WHE is able to convert wasted heat from sources such as ovens, furnaces and engine exhaust into mechanical energy and electricity. This process of cogeneration — also called combined...