PureSpectrum, Inc. Formally Files Patent Application for Dimmable CFL Bulb

PureSpectrum, Inc. has continued the expansion and strengthening of its intellectual property portfolio by filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL). In addition to filing for full patent protection for the dimmable CFL bulb design, the company has also begun proceeding to upgrade... 

Firefly Energy New World Headquarters Ready for Business

Firefly Energy Inc. officially opens its new 40,000-square-foot world headquarters today. The new facility will be dedicated in a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new headquarters located at 6533 N. Galena Road in Peoria, Illinois. “This new building is a further example of Firefly’s continued progress in creating next generation energy storage... 

W2 Energy Inc. to Submit Technology to Department of Energy Clean Coal Power Initiative

W2 Energy Inc. announce it will submit its Coal to Liquid technology to the DOE CCPI (Clean Coal Power Initiative) for funding. The CCPI is seeking to accelerate the commercial deployment of advanced coal technologies to supply the United States with clean, abundant and affordable energy. The funding will provide up to 340 million dollars to be distributed... 

InStep Software to Supply Enterprise Historian for South Mississippi Electric Power Association

InStep Software, LLC, a leading provider of real-time software systems and solutions, announced today that South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA) has selected InStep’s eDNA historian software to collect, store, display and report information from SMEPA’s GE XA/21 Energy Management System, Foxboro I/A DCS, and other plant control... 

Active Power Named Finalist in Eighth Annual Greater Austin Business Awards

Critical backup power systems inventor and manufacturer Active Power, Inc. announced it was named a finalist for the Eighth Annual Greater Austin Business Awards hosted by the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Active Power is one of three finalists in the program’s Innovation category for large companies defined as having 151 or more employees. The company... 

Investment Firm Allied Minds to Commercialize New University of Washington Algal Biofuel Technology

Allied Minds, a seed investment corporation specializing in early stage university business ventures, has partnered with the University of Washington to establish AXI, LLC to commercialize novel technology to develop and create commercially advantageous strains of algae for the production of biofuels. A number of factors have contributed to the increase... 

GWS Technologies, Inc. to Offer Carbon Offset Program

GWS Technologies, Inc., a renewable energy technology company developing and marketing solar and wind-powered alternative energy products and solutions, today announced that it is developing a carbon offset program to help individuals and businesses participate in becoming “carbon neutral” by reducing their “carbon footprint,” which is the total... 

Carbon Jungle Inc. Acquires the Waste-to-Fuel Company Cobal USA Alternative Fuels LLC

Carbon Jungle, Inc. announces its acquisition of the Waste-to-Fuel Company “Cobal USA Alternative Fuels, LLC” as a wholly owned subsidiary. Petr Lisa, President and CEO of Cobal USA Alternative Fuels, LLC stated, “This is a great day for Cobal-USA joining the Carbon Jungle team. We are now one step closer to eliminating our dependency on foreign... 

President of Iceland Assumes Patronage of Driving Sustainability ‘08

The President of Iceland, Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, will inaugurate Driving Sustainability ‘08, an exclusive international platform for sustainable energy solutions for transport, at Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Iceland, on September 18 & 19, 2008. Invited as special speaker, the world famous aeronaut and psychiatrist Dr. Bertrand Piccard... 

Johnson Controls-Saft Awarded $8.2 Million Development Contract

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded Johnson Controls-Saft a contract valued at $8.2 million. The contract will focus on the development of lithium-ion battery systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and over the course of two years will seek to validate the...