Today utilities led by American Electric Power, Consumers Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Reliant Energy, Sempra, and Southern California Edison are working with the ZigBee® Alliance and the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance to develop a common application layer integrated solution for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and home area networks (HAN). Using the robust capabilities of [...]
BP Solar announced the completion of its solar power construction program for Wal-Mart. The company recently completed construction of three sites in California, including the 493.7 kilowatt (kW) solar power system at the Sam’s Club in La Habra, California, as well as systems at Wal-Mart Super Centers in Palm Springs (605.9 kW) and Beaumont (675.2 [...]
Brazil is increasingly turning to alternative power generation fuels such as biomass in order to increase electricity supply and reduce its dependence on hydropower. Biomass power represents around 4.1 percent of the total installed capacity in Brazil at present and most biomass cogeneration is based on sugarcane bagasse. At present, sugarcane bagasse cogeneration accounts for [...]
Terasen Gas has received approval from the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) to lower natural gas commodity rates for the majority of customers in B.C. The rate decreases will take effect October 1, 2008.
“In response to changing market prices since our rate filings with the BCUC last week, we have updated our applications, requesting lower commodity [...]
PetroQuest Energy, Inc. announced today that its initial assessment of its Gulf Coast production facilities has been completed and there is no apparent structural damage to any of the facilities. The timing of the production restoration is contingent upon several factors outside of the Company’s control including pipelines and processing plants operated by third parties, [...]
Green Energy Resources Inc. commenced shipping 20,000 tons of Hurricane Ike wood to Sempra Energy’s Twin Oaks power plant located near Waco, Texas. The 170 megawatt power plant is temporarily switching from coal to wood biomass to be “greener”, according to the announcement on the power plant’s website. Green Energy Resources is the subcontracted supplier. [...]
Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services for homes and commercial buildings, will be prominently represented in Boston as the city welcomes the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo on Nov.19-21 in the Boston Convention and Expo Center (BCEC).
As a platinum sponsor for the third consecutive year, [...]
OPEL International Inc., a leading global developer and supplier of concentrating photovoltaic panels (CPVs), today announced that the Company and its partners have applied for a permit to build a solar grid field in excess of 700 kW in Spain.
Following completion of the deployment, the grid field will be owned by a third-party group acting [...]
Emission Credits Corporation (ECC), an agricultural aggregator of sequestered carbon offsets produced exclusively from farmland in Alberta, today announced it sold more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon credits on August 20, 2008 using the World Green Exchange.
This deal marks the second large-scale carbon-offsets transaction for ECC this year and its first using an auction. While [...]
GreenMan Technologies announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Welch Products, has been awarded 15 new playground surfacing and ADA compliance services projects through its Master Agreement with the State of Iowa. A portion of the funding for these projects is provided by the IDNR Scrap Tire Development Program, whose funding recipients are required to use [...]