APX, Inc., the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets and the Gold Standard Foundation today announced that the Gold Standard Registry now includes more than 200 valid greenhouse gas reduction projects in various stages of approval, representing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in over 30 countries. Of these, approximately 100 projects are [...]
The GSMA launched the Green Power for Mobile programme with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or sustainable biofuels(1), to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. Achieving that target would save up to 2.5 billion litres of diesel per [...]
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., a leading operator of global regulated futures exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and The Clearing Corporation (TCC), today announced new agreements intended to advance their previously announced joint global clearing solution for Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Together with nine of the major global investment banks who are dealers in the CDS markets, ICE [...]
Cameron has received an order worth approximately $83 million for the supply of subsea production systems for Phase II of Chevron’s Tahiti subsea development in the Gulf of Mexico. The project includes eight 15,000-psi subsea trees, production control systems, connection systems, engineering and project management services and related equipment. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in [...]
Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its board of directors has unanimously approved the redomestication of the company from Bermuda to Switzerland.
Foster Wheeler’s shareholders will be asked to vote in favor of the proposal at a shareholders meeting expected to be scheduled for January 2009. If approved by shareholders, and subject to the approval of the [...]
Wind To Power Systems Inc. (W2PS), a leading provider of systems that integrate renewable power into the electric grid, announces an agreement with Global Energy Services (GES) as the authorized factory service provider for W2PS products installed in North America. Global Energy Services is the leading operator in engineering, installation and maintenance services for the [...]
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. the world’s largest manufacturer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules, announced today that it will supply Sunergic SA, one of Switzerland’s leading solar system integrators, with the solar panels for a 1MW solar system for Services Industriels de Geneve (SIG), a Swiss utility. The SIG 1MW solar project is one [...]
Complex pricing, expansive approval processes and lack of incentives to use low carbon energy sources are some of the unintended consequences of the highly regulated energy sector that inhibit “clean energy” innovations, according to a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation review of state and local laws presented at an energy conference at the White House today. [...]
Springboard Biodiesel, announced today that it has developed patent-pending biodiesel processing acceleration technology that doubles the capacity of its BioPro biodiesel processors. Springboard Biodiesel’s processing line will now comfortably serve users with an even broader range of processing needs — up to 36,000 gallons annually — while providing compelling economic returns.
Using patent-pending fluid separation technology, [...]
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and Open Energy Corporation, a developer of innovative and elegant BIPV products, energy management applications and solar energy solutions announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement licensing the worldwide manufacture, distribution and marketing of Open Energy’s building integrated solar roof tile [...]