Westinghouse Electric Company today announced sponsorship of a grant for Middle and High Schools focusing on science, technology or mathematics through a proposed hands-on project with students.
Administered through the company’s speaker’s bureau, N-Vision, the grant is designed to encourage both teachers and students to think of a creative project based on energy, math, science, or [...]
Energy West, Incorporated announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orwell Natural Gas Company, Northeast Ohio Natural Gas Corp. (NEO) and Brainard Natural Gas Corp., three natural gas distribution companies headquartered in Mentor, Ohio, that serve customers in Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. The acquisitions will add approximately 21,000 new customers [...]
Green Power EMC (GPEMC), a partnership of 38 electric membership corporations (EMCs) in Georgia, today announced plans to purchase 17 MW of biomass energy from Multitrade Rabun Gap (MRG), LLC.
The Rabun Gap project will use woody waste as the primary fuel in a conventional boiler for the generation of steam to power a steam turbine [...]
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. a leading independent global provider of specialized payment products and services to commercial fleets, major oil companies and petroleum marketers, today announced that it has priced its initial public offering of 12,675,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $23 per share. FleetCor’s common shares are expected [...]
CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. announces that it has begun exploring opportunities to implement its technology in France with the assistance of the French government economic development arm, the Invest in France Agency.
This significant development signals CleanTech’s expansion into international markets, starting with France which is already recognized as a leader in promoting alternative energy technologies and [...]
In a licensing agreement with Policell Technologies Inc. of Metuchen, N.J., Orlando, Florida-based Planar Energy Devices Inc. (Planar) has acquired technology and manufacturing rights for a new generation of safe large format lithium ion batteries based on a breakthrough bondable nano-composite separator technology. This new cell and separator technology has a chemically engineered shutdown feature [...]
Ice Energy®, the premier provider of hybrid cooling technologies, announced that Napa Valley Community College has installed the latest in green building innovation: six Ice Bear® hybrid cooling systems. Installed at the school’s Child Development Center, the Ice Bear systems reduce the daytime power consumption of the facility and lower greenhouse gas emissions while improving [...]
Ultralife Corporation will be presenting at the Western New York Investors Conference in Buffalo, New York on November 5.
Ultralife management is scheduled to give a presentation at 2:45 PM Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company’s website, http://investor.ulbi.com.
Ultralife Corporation, which began as a [...]
Constellation Energy recently joined with key representatives from Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, and the state of Alabama in a ceremony recognizing the restart of construction at the 774-megawatt Hillabee Power Plant in Alexander City.
Constellation Energy purchased the partially completed natural gas plant from Calpine Corporation in February 2008. Calpine had begun construction of Hillabee in [...]
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., the world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, held a ceremony today celebrating the achievement of reaching 1GW PV cell and module production capacity in Wuxi, China. The Company also announced the opening of its new headquarters in Wuxi, China that incorporates a 1MW grid-connected building integrated solar facade, which is [...]