New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc., a provider of renewable fuels, is pleased to announce it has awarded Chicago-based ECE Design, a design contract to develop the design for its first full production biofuel manufacturing plant, with expected capacity of 25 million gallons of second-generation biofuel a year.
“ECE is pleased to be associated with New Generation [...]
OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced today it will present at the Next Generation Biofuels Markets conference on October 8, 2008, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“The Biofuels Markets World Series brings together major industry players in alternative [...]
Smith International, Inc. and W-H Energy Services, Inc. announced that in order to coincide with the scheduled termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) waiting period, the expiration date of the exchange offer to acquire the outstanding shares of W-H has been extended until 12:00 midnight, Eastern time, at the end of Monday, August 18, 2008, [...]
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and The FuelMaker Trust to acquire FuelMaker Corporation of Toronto, Canada for (US) $17 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed within 25 days.
FuelMaker (www.fuelmaker.com) manufactures, distributes, installs and services vehicle refueling appliances (VRA) and accessories [...]
One-year old Own Energy completed an undisclosed Series A round of funding yesterday but is reportedly already looking to raise $100 million to fund the 51-megawatt wind farm it has planned in Texas for 2009. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company wants to put wind farms of the 10- to 80-megawatt size on actual farmland. Instead of [...]
China Clean Energy Inc. announced that, as of November 10, 2008 it has resumed biodiesel production.
China Clean Energy decided to resume biodiesel production at its existing plant in light of a recent drop in raw material prices, thus allowing the Company to enjoy sufficient margins to make this business segment profitable again. Currently the selling [...]
Sunrise Consulting Group Inc. is moving quickly to establish itself as a major player in the fast-growing international solar energy market. Last week the company announced its plans to purchase up to 60% of Sunrise Solartech Co. Ltd., and since that time Sunrise Consulting has been working diligently to finalize funding of its expansion plans.
Sunrise [...]
N-Viro International Corp.,, an environmental and materials handling company that owns patented technologies that convert various types of wastes into the renewable biofuel N-Viro Fuel(TM), has formed a joint venture with SouthSide Environmental Group, a subsidiary of Schimley’s Excavating, Inc., to jointly construct, manage and operate an N-Viro Fuel facility in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, [...]
Lakeland Electric and SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, announced a public-private partnership to deploy 24 megawatts of solar. The program will be the largest utility-sponsored photovoltaic (PV) solar program per metered customer in the United States to date, averaging 214 watts per meter among Lakeland Electric’s approximately 112,000 customers.
Under the agreement, SunEdison [...]
VIASPACE Inc., a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with WonATech of Korea for VIASPACE to sell and distribute WonATech’s fuel cell test stations outside Korea.
Fuel Cell test stations that can test [...]