SkyFuel Unveils the SkyTrough: the World’s Highest Performance, Lowest Cost Utility-Scale Solar Power System

SkyFuel, Inc. today secured its position as the leader in the rapidly growing concentrating solar power (CSP) industry by unveiling the SkyTrough(TM): the highest performance, lowest cost utility-scale solar power system of any kind for generating electricity. With glass-free mirrors, a highly engineered space frame that allows compact transportation... 

Enterprise Selects Triple Point to Manage FAS 133 Compliance – Marks Milestone as 50th Hedge Accounting Client

Triple Point Technology®, the leading global provider of multi-market commodity and enterprise risk management software solutions, announced today that Enterprise Products Partners L.P., with an enterprise value of nearly $21 billion, has chosen Triple Point’s Commodity XL for Hedge Accounting™ to ensure FAS 133 compliance and protect against earnings... 

Multi-National Oil and Gas Company Chooses Accelrys to Increase Efficiency in Catalyst Discovery and Optimization

Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced that one of the largest multi-national oil and gas companies has chosen Accelrys to develop an integrated solution which would enable this company’s catalyst research scientists to both accelerate catalysis research and discovery and to improve... 

Brodeur Partners Launches Clean Technology Practice

Brodeur Partners today launched its Clean Technology practice to help emerging and established companies attract public support for environmentally friendly technologies and sustainable “green” business initiatives. Brodeur Partners’ new practice draws on 23 years of experience in business and consumer technology and the firm’s... 

American Electric Power Selects Ventyx Enterprise Asset Management Solution

Ventyx®, the world’s largest private software provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced that American Electric Power, the largest electricity generator in the United States, has committed to upgrade their enterprisewide work management and supply chain systems to the latest version of Asset Suite from Ventyx. AEP is one of... 

Roper Industries Acquires Technolog, Leading UK Provider of Products and Services for Water, Gas and Electricity Markets

Roper Industries, Inc. announced that it has acquired Technolog, a UK-based end-to-end solutions provider for network monitoring, pressure management, automatic meter recording (AMR) and smart metering solutions. Technolog, which will become part of Roper’s RF Technology segment, designs, manufactures and supplies specialty electronic products... 

Applied Materials Activates Largest Solar Deployment on a Corporate Campus in U.S.

Applied Materials and SunPower Corporation announced completion of two SunPower solar power systems totaling 2.1 megawatts at Applied Materials’ corporate facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. The systems represent the largest solar power deployment at a corporate facility in the United States. “This is another exciting milestone in the adoption... 

Beacon Power Announces Testing of First Megawatt of Flywheel Energy Storage

Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced that it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power flywheels that operated together to absorb and supply a full megawatt of electricity. The system, located... 

Panasas Parallel Storage Drives Completion of Seismic Processing Jobs Up to Six Times Faster for Geofizyka Krakow

Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, today announced that, through the deployment of a Panasas AS3000 parallel storage solution, Geofizyka Krakow is completing seismic processing jobs up to six times faster. This performance boost positively impacts its geophysicists’ productivity by providing faster results and the... 

Nexant Launches New Dusseldorf Office to Serve European Chemical and Energy Clients

Nexant, a leading provider of consulting services and technology solutions to the global chemical and energy industries, announced today that it has opened a new European office in Düsseldorf, Germany. “The German chemical industry is a major force in global chemicals,” said Dr. Andrew Spiers, Nexant senior vice president responsible for global...