Electric vehicles, infrastructure power 2009 Beyond Oil conference

Shiny new electric vehicles, emitting only low-whirring sounds, glistened as they darted among the few sun breaks in Seattle outside a Cascadia Center conference titled Beyond Oil: The Sustainable Communities Initiative. The all-electric Ford Focus made its debut at the late-October event, co-sponsored by Idaho National Laboratory. Ford’s Focus... 

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

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.... 

Capstone Ships Its First C1000 Megawatt Scale Product

Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today announced it has shipped its first C1000 megawatt scale product. The system will be installed at ANTEX, located in Spain. ANTEX is an independent Spanish textile group whose activity centers on the broad world of synthetic yarns. It... 

Atlantic Energy Solutions Partners With Evolution Solar on Solar Panels

Atlantic Energy Solutions, Inc. announce they are in negotiations to make Evolution Solar Corporation their provider of photovoltaic (PV) panels for several of Atlantic Energy’s current solar energy efficiency projects. After conducting extensive research with a number of global manufacturers of PV panels, Atlantic Energy has concluded that securing... 

Integrated Solutions Required to Meet Energy Challenge, ExxonMobil Says in New Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030

An integrated series of solutions will be required to manage increases in global energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions that will result from population growth and economic expansion, Exxon Mobil Corporation said, releasing the corporation’s Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030. “The world needs to meet the ever-growing need for reliable and affordable... 

Solargy Systems Inc. Begins $120 Million West African Energy Project

Solargy Systems Inc. announced it has hired Cinergex Solutions Ltd, a Canadian provider of Waste to Energy (WTE) technology and equipment, to begin work on a $120 million energy facility that will be operated by Solargy Systems. The facility will generate over $100 million in revenue and open the door for additional facilities, using the Solargy model... 

Cox Is Changing Lanes with More Fuel Efficient Fleet

Cox Communications New England continues along the fast lane of its transition to a more environmentally- friendly fleet. The newest member of its fleet is the Hybrid Bucket Truck. Cox’s hybrid trucks from Navistar provide dramatic potential fuel savings of nearly 60 percent in utility-type applications when the engine is shut off and electric... 

Super-Strength Relays Expand Abilities of ILLUMRA Self-Powered Wireless Light Controls

ILLUMRA, the largest North American supplier of self-powered, battery-free, wireless lighting controls, announced today the release of four powerful new switching relays. The devices are used in conjunction with EnOcean-enabled self-powered wireless light switches to provide maintenance free, reliable, and reconfigurable lighting control and energy... 

Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA Announces New Solar Module Manufacturing Plant in Ningbo

Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc., a U.S.-based China engineering and manufacturing company specializing in photovoltaic module technology and international contract manufacturing for products in the solar energy, aerospace, wireless telecommunications, medical equipment and automotive industries, today announced the establishment of a new... 

Bruce Power to Conduct Environmental Assessment for Nuclear Generating Station in Haldimand-Norfolk

Bruce Power is pleased to announce it will conduct an Environmental Assessment (EA) as it considers building a nuclear generating station in the Haldimand-Norfolk region of southern Ontario. The assessment, which could take nearly three years to complete, will examine the environmental and social impacts of building two reactors to generate between...