Metrolight Receives ‘Energy Innovator’ Honors by U.S. Department of Energy

Metrolight, Inc., a leader in energy management solutions focused on energy-efficient electronic High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, today announced it has received an Energy Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). “We are happy to recognize Metrolight’s work with the Energy Innovator Award,” said Paul Dickerson, Chief Operating Officer at the Department... Read more..

Commercial Permit to Treat Radioactive PCBs in the U.S. Issued to Perma-Fix Environmental Services

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. announced it has received its commercial permit in the U.S. from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 to commercially store and dispose of radioactive Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB’s) at the Company’s Diversified Scientific Services, Inc. (DSSI) subsidiary facility located in Tennessee. Perma-Fix’s DSSI facility uses an EPA-authorized waste fuel boiler unit for the thermal... Read more..

Axis Technologies Announces Order for $700,000 From Energy Innovation Group (EIG)

Axis Technologies Group, Inc., a green technology company that designs, manufactures and markets a proprietary line of energy saving and daylight harvesting electronic dimming ballasts for the commercial lighting industry, has received firm purchase orders in November 2008 valued in excess of $700,000 for the Axis ballast from Energy Innovation Group (EIG) www.energyinnovation.net to cover the indicated purchases of ballast needs for customers during... Read more..

AFS Trinity Reports Its Battery/Ultracap Plug in Hybrid System Is 6 Times More Durable Than Lithium Batteries Alone

AFS Trinity Power Corporation today reported independent test results demonstrating that the company’s “Extreme Hybrid” technology that utilizes batteries in combination with ultracapacitors will enable a plug in hybrid vehicle using the system to have a useful life that is 6 times greater than plug ins that use lithium batteries alone — 150,000 miles for an AFS Trinity Extreme Hybrid versus 25,000 miles for a conventional... Read more..

Dresser-Rand Invests In the Development of Game-Changing Compressor Technology Focused on Green Energy

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. announced that Dresser-Rand has made an investment in Ramgen Power Systems, LLC, and further expects to support Ramgen’s ongoing development work. Dresser-Rand’s funding will help satisfy Ramgen’s requirement with the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Lab to obtain private matching funds for development. Ramgen is developing game-changing compressor technology that applies proven supersonic... Read more..

Duke Energy Signs Used Fuel Contract for Proposed Lee Nuclear Station

Duke Energy has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the disposal of used nuclear fuel generated at its proposed William States Lee III Nuclear Station. The contract provides for the DOE’s acceptance and permanent disposal of all fuel from the station. For this service, the company will pay a $1 per megawatt-hour fee for electricity generated and sold from Lee Nuclear. This is consistent with the existing used fuel... Read more..

Raser Technologies Inaugurates Utah Geothermal Plant with Advanced Technology That Can Make Geothermal a Major Source of the U.S. Energy Supply

Raser Technologies, Inc., a leader in geothermal power generation, inaugurated late yesterday its first commercial-scale power plant, in Beaver County, Utah, demonstrating the viability of advanced technology that can make geothermal a major price-competitive resource for this country’s energy supply. The plant’s output has already been committed to supply electricity to Anaheim. The company noted that the Beaver County plant, called Thermo, was... Read more..

Ocean Power Technologies Wins New $3 Million Contract from US Navy

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announce that it has been awarded a new $3 million contract for participation in the second phase of the US Navy’s Deep Water Active Detection Systems (“DWADS”) program, which is designed to utilize sophisticated data gathering and communications systems. This advanced technology program has prospective applications using multiple PowerBuoys® for homeland security including powering sensor networks over wide areas... Read more..

USA Biomass to Chair Platts’ National Biomass Power Forum

USA Biomass Chairman Robert Cleaves will chair Platts’ highly anticipated national Biomass Power Forum November 6-7 in Florida, which features biopower experts from throughout the country — including Cleaves — who will explore biomass economics, key biomass finance structures, the role biomass plays in meeting RPS, and opportunities for expansion and financial investment in this growing industry. “It’s an honor to chair... Read more..

Covanta Wallingford Receives OSHA VPP Star Award for Workplace Safety and Health Excellence

Covanta Energy, a world leader in the development and operation of large scale Energy-from-Waste and other renewable energy projects, today announced its Wallingford, CT facility was awarded the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Programs “VPP STAR” designation for workplace safety and health excellence. The “VPP STAR” recognition is the highest honor given to facilities demonstrating... Read more..