Obama’s Visit to Brazil Yields ‘Encouraging’ Renewable Fuels Cooperation, According to Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

Two important announcements involving renewable energy made on the opening day of U.S. President Barack Obama’s official visit to Brazil, both directly relevant to Brazil’s successful sugarcane ethanol industry, are encouraging signs that Brazil and the U.S. are on a path to achieve free, unobstructed trade for clean, renewable biofuels.... 

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. Provides 2011 Activity Update

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. is pleased to provide the following update regarding the Company’s proposed activity for 2011. The Company had previously announced on December 22nd 2010 that it had completed a $25 Million bank credit facility with Regions Bank. The credit facility capped a year where the Company produced four straight quarters of... 

Kalahari Greentech’s Tri-Brid Solar Collector Has a Revenue Potential of $973 Million

Kalahari Greentech, Inc. released a statement today discussing the company’s revenue projections for 2011. According to the American Housing Survey, there were 128,203,000 housing units in the United States in 2007 (Source: www.census.gov). If only one tenth of 1% of the approximately 128 million housing units were to purchase the Tri-Brid Solar... 

Ascent Solar Appoints New Board Member

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. , a developer of state-of-the-art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today the appointment of Hans Olav Kvalvaag to its Board of Directors to replace Einar Glomnes, who resigned from the Board effective December 21, 2010. Mr. Kvalvaag was designated for appointment to the Board by Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS, the... 

Business and Environmental Groups Unite in Support of Climate Legislation

Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe and Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances G. Beinecke today urged Midwest business leaders to support comprehensive climate legislation. In a panel discussion at the Economic Club of Chicago, Rowe and Beinecke said economy-wide cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is essential... 

NF Energy Saving Corporation Obtains New $2 Million Energy Efficient Lighting Lamps Project

NF Energy Saving Corporation of America, a Chinese leader in energy efficient flow control systems and energy efficiency projects, today announced the company has successfully completed the sale of 500,000 energy efficient lighting lamps, and is starting up the 2nd batch of 2 million energy efficient lighting lamps in June 2009. Total contract value... 

Boston-Power Adds $55 Million in Growth Capital

Boston-Power, Inc., the rapidly growing provider of next-generation Lithium-ion batteries, announced $55 million in new funding. Boston-Power will use the new growth capital to scale manufacturing, sales, marketing, and research and development to meet strong global demand for Sonata Lithium-ion batteries. Initially targeting notebook computers, Sonata... 

Global Solar Leaders and UNEP Outline Central Role for Solar in Climate Solution at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland

Representatives from three leading international solar companies and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) — Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s Chairman and CEO, Jeremy Leggett, Executive Chairman of Solarcentury, Mike Ahearn, Chairman and CEO of First Solar, and Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director — gathered at the United Nations... 

Newpark Resources and CCS, Inc. Mutually Agree to Terminate the Sale of Newpark’s U.S. Environmental Services Business

Newpark Resources, Inc. announced that it has mutually agreed with CCS, Inc. to cancel the proposed sale of Newark’s U.S. environmental services business to CCS. As previously announced on October 23, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed suit to block the proposed sale of Newpark’s environmental services business... 

Advanced Cellulose Ethanol Development

Swedish researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on development and large scale implementation of a new improved bio-technical process for production of ethanol from lignocellulose feedstocks. The development is based on Taurus’ yeast technology for fermentation of both...