Verenium Announces First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Project

Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development of next-generation cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, announced plans to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Highlands County, Florida. The Company has entered into long-term agreements with Lykes Bros. Inc., a multi-generation Florida agri-business to provide the agricultural biomass for conversion to fuel. Verenium also announced that the Highlands... Read more..

Sierra Club Asks Federal Court to Cut Off Power to Holland, Michigan Community

The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court asking for a court-ordered shutdown of the community-owned electrical generating plant in Holland, Michigan. The complaint, filed against the City of Holland and the Holland Board of Public Works on December 15, alleges that normal maintenance and repair work done at the James De Young power generating facility constituted “major modifications” of the plant... Read more..

Integrated Solutions Required to Meet Energy Challenge, ExxonMobil Says in New Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030

An integrated series of solutions will be required to manage increases in global energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions that will result from population growth and economic expansion, Exxon Mobil Corporation said, releasing the corporation’s Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030. “The world needs to meet the ever-growing need for reliable and affordable energy while minimizing the effects on the environment,” said Rex W. Tillerson, chairman... Read more..

Lockheed Martin Solar Power Testbed Will Foster Technology and Production Innovation

Lockheed Martin broke ground for a solar power testbed to support its entry into the utility-scale renewable power generation market. The Solar System Test and Engineering Site (SolSTES) Array testbed in southern New Jersey will provide Lockheed Martin engineers the opportunity to integrate and test a variety of solar technologies and materials selected from multiple suppliers, and to conduct production modeling. Gossamer Space Frames of Long Beach,... Read more..

WINSO and Schneider Power Launch Bahamas Renewable Energy Corporation

Schneider Power Inc., Canada’s leading renewable energy company and WINSO Company Ltd. of Nassau, today announced the joint-venture and launch of the Bahamas Renewable Energy Corporation Ltd.. BREC is the developer of three contemplated renewable power generation facilities totaling 24 MW, enough to power over 25,000 homes. The contemplated projects are diversified across two technologies (wind and solar) and three islands (New Providence, Abaco... Read more..

Sonelgaz Signs $1 Billion in Service Agreements with GE Energy, Targeting Improved Efficiency, Output for Algerian Power Plants

Taking another important step toward meeting Algeria’s growing energy needs, state-owned power company Sonelgaz has signed service agreements with GE Energy worth more than US $1 billion. The service agreements will help to improve efficiency, output and reliability of 51 gas turbines installed in 13 power plants across the country. The agreements include: * An 18-year contractual service agreement (CSA) for the Koudiet Eddraouch power plant... Read more..

Madison County Wind for Schools Project Brings Alternative Energy Education to Western N.C.

Winds blowing through the mountains of North Carolina will move more than leaves next year when the first rural wind power education program east of the Mississippi River is established in Madison County. A regional partnership will install small wind turbines at three schools in Madison County and develop a K-12 alternative-energy curriculum as part of an effort to introduce wind power to rural communities and initiate community discussions around... Read more..

Octillion Advances Development of Technologies Capable of Generating Electricity from Moving Vehicles

Octillion Corp., a next-generation alternative and renewable energy technology developer, today announced plans to further Octillion’s development of first-generation devices capable of generating electricity by harvesting energy from vehicles in motion. The Company has entered into an agreement with Veryst Engineering LLC, a respected Boston-based engineering firm with expertise in energy capture technologies. Working with the Office of Naval Research,... 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..

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..