BrassCraft Patent Brings New Era of Safety to Natural Gas Use

BrassCraft’s patented Safety+PLUS® Excess Flow Valve promises to usher in a new standard of safety for natural gas. With more than 65 million homes in the United States alone utilizing natural gas for their water heaters, furnaces, boilers, heaters and other applications, the patented Safety+PLUS Excess Flow Valve from BrassCraft will be a welcome... 

GE Debuts Worlds First Truly Incandescent-Shaped Energy Smart® CFL Bulb

Miniaturized electronics developed by GE Consumer & Industrial engineers and scientists are the enabling technology of a new covered GE Energy Smart® compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb featuring the GE Spiral® CFL inside the glass bulb. With this new CFL—an exclusive design achievement that GE has protected with more than a dozen U.S. patent... 

Samsung Everland To Install 12 UTC Power Fuel Cell Systems for GS Power in Korea

UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, announced that Samsung Everland has purchased 12 UTC Power 400 kW fuel cell systems for installation at a GS Power plant in the Town of Anyang, just outside Seoul. GS Power will use the electricity from the fuel cells to provide power for about 5 percent of Anyang’s population, with 40,000 megawatt... 

Earth Tech Joins ThermoEnergy to Construct Ammonia Recovery Facility for New York City

ThermoEnergy Corporation announced the signing of a formal agreement with Earth Tech, Inc., part of AECOM one of the worlds largest environmental and infrastructure engineering companies, to act as Construction Manager as well as perform the civil engineering work for the Company’s multi-million dollar Ammonia Recovery Process (“ARP”)... 

Terasen Gas applies to lower natural gas rates

Terasen Gas has now filed applications to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) to reduce its natural gas commodity rates for customers in most regions of B.C. If the applications are approved, commodity rate decreases will take effect October 1, 2008. “We are pleased market conditions have changed allowing us to apply for lower customer... 

IPS Wins Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Upgrade Taiwan Power Company’s Kuosheng Nuclear Plant

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, today announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar deal with state-owned Taiwan Power Company (TPC) to provide critical upgrades to the Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in northern Taiwan. Under the terms of the contract, IPS will replace and upgrade obsolete... 

ZigBee Smart Energy to Be Expanded for Wired Use on HomePlug

Today utilities led by American Electric Power, Consumers Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Reliant Energy, Sempra, and Southern California Edison are working with the ZigBee® Alliance and the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance to develop a common application layer integrated solution for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and home area networks... 

Greenbox Technology and Silver Spring Networks Partner With Oklahoma Gas and Electric to Help Consumers Reduce Home Energy Use

Greenbox Technology, creators of energy management software for the home, announced today that they have partnered with smart grid infrastructure experts Silver Spring Networks to successfully deploy the Greenbox(TM) interactive energy management platform for Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E). The goal of OG&E’s Positive Energy(TM) SmartPower... 

Hyperion Power Generation Lands Initial Set of Customers for the HPM Small, Safe, Transportable Nuclear Power Reactor

Hyperion Power Generation’s CEO, John R. “Grizz” Deal, announced today that the company has received its first Letter of Intent to purchase the Hyperion Power Module ™ (HPM), a small, compact, transportable, nuclear power reactor. The intention to purchase up to six units for various projects, at approximately $25 million each, was placed by... 

Examine the Biomass to Biofuels Market Potential, 2008: Study Conversion Techniques, Industry Outlook & Country Overviews

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Biomass to Biofuels Market Potential 2008” report to their offering. As the world scrambles to meet its increasing energy demands the search for renewable energy sources is more and more desperate. Our cars, trucks, planes, trains and economy will screech to a HALT without a sufficient...