A recent increase in U.S. inflation is driven primarily by rising commodity prices globally, and is unlikely to persist, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.
The comments stood in sharp contrast to a string of U.S. central bank officials, some of whom have argued the time is coming for the Fed to begin tightening [...]
URS Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by ENMAX Green Power Inc. to provide engineering, procurement, construction, startup, testing and commissioning services for a new 120-megawatt simple-cycle power generation facility in Alberta, Canada. The natural gas-fired facility is located about 40 kilometers north of Calgary near the town of Crossfield, and it [...]
The Association of Energy Services Professionals announced the final agenda for its fourth Technology Symposium is posted online at http://aesp.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=138.
AESP’s Technology Symposium: What’s New in Energy Efficiency, Renewable and Demand Response Technologies will be held September 17-19, 2008 at the Hilton Long Beach Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Long Beach, CA. This year’s Symposium [...]
Honeywell announced today that its Genetron® R-245fa refrigerant is being used to help homeowners generate electricity from the sun’s heat while offsetting energy costs.
Honeywell’s energy-efficient refrigerant is being used in an organic rankine cycle (ORC) called the 35Z Micro Power Plant, manufactured by Germany-based Turbolina GmbH & Co. KG. The 35Z Micro Power Plant has [...]
Orion Energy Systems, Inc., a leading provider of energy management systems to the commercial and industrial sectors, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $10 million of its outstanding common stock. The action supplements the $20 million share repurchase authorization approved in July 2008 and which [...]
Alon USA Energy, Inc. today announced that the Company will be presenting at the 2011 Credit Suisse Energy Summit to be held in Vail, Colorado on February 7 – 11, 2011.
Jeff Morris, Alon’s Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. Mountain Time (9:00 a.m. Eastern Time). [...]
GE is recharging the electrification of transportation by making its sixth equity investment in lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123Systems. GE invested $30 million in A123’s $102 million Series E financing, making it the battery manufacturer’s largest single cash investor – at 9 percent ownership. The investments were made by GE Commercial Finance – Equity and GE [...]
Active Power, Inc., inventor and manufacturer of the most energy-efficient critical power systems in the world, has received an order from Star Technology Services for its modular containerised PowerHouse solution. One of the largest independent business to business (Internet service providers) in the United Kingdom, Star will install PowerHouse to provide its new mission critical [...]
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, [...]
InterOil Corporation, announced that, as a result of resolutions passed by the Board of Directors of PNG LNG, Inc., the joint venture owned by affiliates of InterOil, Pacific LNG and Merrill Lynch, to construct an LNG (liquid natural gas) plant on a site adjacent to InterOil’s refinery in Papua New Guinea, Merrill does not have [...]