Vitol, Helios and Shell Reach Agreement on African Downstream Businesses

Vitol today announced that, in partnership with Helios Investment Partners, it has agreed to purchase the majority of Shell’s shareholding in most of their downstream businesses in Africa for a total consideration of some $1 billion. Under the agreements, two new joint venture companies will assure continued availability of Shell fuels and lubricants... 

Western Refining Wholesale Turns to KSS Fuels for Pricing Intelligence Solution to Maintain Competitive Edge

Western Refining Wholesale, a division of Western Refining Inc., an independent refining and marketing company headquartered in El Paso, Texas, will use KSS Fuels’ RackPrice wholesale pricing solution to help it manage fuel prices at its wholesale locations. Western Refining is a crude oil refiner, wholesale fuel and lubricants distributor and retailer... 

Energy Efficiency and Lighting Conference Announced as Part of Premier Farnell’s $100,000 USD Live EDGE Green Design Competition

Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), announced the Live EDGE competition will be hosting a series of technical learning and networking events held in a virtual global community, the Live EDGE EcoSphere. Registration and the event... 

Alenia Aeronautica Selects Fiper from SIMULIA for Enterprise-Wide Simulation Integration and Collaboration

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Alenia Aeronautica, “a Finmeccanica Company”, a major commercial and defense aeronautics supplier, has chosen Fiper from SIMULIA as a key component of their enterprise-wide simulation process integration and collaboration... 

Cummins Power Generation Announces Price Increase

Cummins Power Generation, a division of Cummins Inc., announces price increases for its commercial generator set products between 15 kW and 2700 kW. Prices of generator sets and transfer switches in North America will rise between 2 and 7 percent and are effective Jan. 1, 2009. This increase is due primarily to rising commodity and fuel prices as well... 

Titan Energy Worldwide Awarded $130,000 Service Contract for Iowa Telecommunications Company’s Backup Power Generators

Titan Energy Worldwide announced that its subsidiary, Titan Energy Systems, has secured a $130,000 annual contract to provide maintenance service to more than 140 portable standby power generators for a large telecommunications provider in Iowa. To date, Titan Energy has booked $791,000 in service contracts compared to $315,000 in all of 2007, a more... 

Yingli Green Energy and TUV Rheinland Sign Strategic Partnership MOU

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with TÜV Rheinland (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. to form a strategic partnership covering a range of quality control initiatives at the Company. Under... 

Energi Holdings Completes Acquisition of the Conifer Energy Division of Conifer Insurance Agency, Inc.

Energi Holdings Inc. announced that it has completed the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Conifer Insurance Agency, Inc. The terms of the transaction were approved unanimously by both the Energi and Conifer Boards of Directors. The terms of the transaction are not disclosed at this time. The transaction provides the merged companies with... 

Yingli Green Energy Signs PV Module Sales Contracts with GeckoLogic and Sinosol

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced it has entered into new PV module sales contracts with leading German PV players GeckoLogic GmbH and Sinosol AG. 28 MW PV Module Sales Contract with GeckoLogic Yingli Green Energy signed a 28 MW PV module... 

Electron Solar Energy Partners with Clean Power Finance to Bring Solar Energy Financing to the Mass Consumer Market

Electron Solar Energy, an international distributor of alternative energy systems, announced today it has partnered with Clean Power Finance, to provide financing to Electron Solar’s home and commercial solar energy installations. Clean Power’s software tools integrate financing scenarios into Electron’s solar quote, resulting in a fundamental...