Grundfos Pumps Corporation and SunPower Corporation dedicated a 1.1 megawatt solar power system at the Grundfos facility in Fresno. The system features a ground-mounted, high-efficiency SunPower sun tracking system on a 7.5-acre site. It is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions generated at the site by almost 2.4 million pounds annually, which is the equivalent [...]
Catalyst Energy Group, the premier energy retailer to the multi-family industry and BluTrend, a leading provider of utility theft solutions for multi-family owners, today announced an exclusive multi-state agreement to offer BluTrend’s flagship CSASecure® product to multi-family customers served by Catalyst Energy Group subsidiaries nationwide. CSASecure® will complement Catalyst’s proprietary utility management e-tool, CatalystConnect™, to [...]
Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. to provide update on collaboration with Affordable Bio Feedstock (ABF) that commenced on May 28, 2008.
After representatives from both companies jointly completed testing and evaluation of processes and techniques for utilizing Planet Resource Recovery, Inc.’s premier product, PetroLuxus™, for separation and recovery of oils from trap grease and other sources [...]
Double Eagle Petroleum Co. announced that its Board of Directors has completed the management transition that started in December 2007. The Board has elected Richard Dole as CEO and President. Mr. Dole is also the Chairman of the Board, and has served as a Director of the Company since 2005. He served as Chairman of [...]
Comverge, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Progress Energy Carolinas (PEC) to provide demand response hardware, software, software hosting services and project support in connection with PEC’s new EnergyWise(TM) residential demand response and energy efficiency program. The exclusive agreement has an initial term of five years. When fully implemented, the program [...]
Oil climbed above $92 on Monday to its highest since October 2008, spurred on by expectations economic recovery will boost energy demand and as market bulls set their sights on $100 a barrel.
U.S. crude was 86 cents higher at $92.24 a barrel by 1438 GMT, off a session high of $92.39.
It settled at $91.38 on [...]
Cyclone Manufacturing Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario is creating 133 jobs by investing in new technology that will help improve its products and win new business.
The company makes parts for aerospace manufacturers. Their customers have included Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer. By innovating, Cyclone can use new materials to make aircraft parts that are lighter. This allows [...]
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract from StatoilHydro for the manufacture and supply of additional subsea equipment for its Heidrun North project, located in the Norwegian Sea. This contract, valued at approximately $45 million in revenue, is a call-off from a previously announced frame agreement signed in 2007 with FMC [...]
Albemarle Corporation, a leading global supplier of petroleum refining catalysts and additives, will increase the prices of its fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts for both heavy feed (Resid) and vacuum gas oil (VGO) cracking applications by 20 percent worldwide, effective September 1, 2008, or as contracts allow. Natural gas and rare earth surcharges will continue [...]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division has notified Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics U.S.A Inc. (MEUS), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, that DOJ has closed its grand jury investigation of possible antitrust violations regarding static random access memory (SRAM) sales in the US market. No charges have been [...]