AmerenUE, Saint Louis University Join Forces to Launch Pioneering Weather Monitoring, Forecasting, Response System

AmerenUE and Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences today announced Quantum Weather(TM) – a highly precise weather monitoring, forecasting, and response system for UE’s Missouri service territory. Part of UE’s Project Power On reliability initiative, this pioneering system can pinpoint severe weather activity on a neighborhood-by- neighborhood basis. Current weather tracking systems are unable... Read more..

Freedom Financial Holdings Receives Initial Round of Funding to Deploy Company’s Heavy Oil Initiative

Freedom Financial Holdings, Inc. CEO Brian Kistler announced that the company has received its initial round of financing to begin deployment of its heavy oil initiative. The company also recently announced it has secured Oil and Gas Leases for 500 acres of ground in Vernon and Barton County, Missouri. “Receiving a first round of funding from our new financial partners, VSource1 and Scarborough Capital, proves that we are on the right track... Read more..

GreenMan Technologies, Inc. Subsidiary and Great Plains ADA Center Form Partnership to Develop Education and Technology Solutions

GreenMan Technologies and The Great Plains ADA Center of Columbia, Missouri are pleased to announce they have entered into a sixty month agreement for the advancement and development of solutions, particularly those related to recreational and playground areas, to promote compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The partnership will be facilitated by National Safe Surfacing Initiative, LLC (NSSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenman’s... Read more..

Pure Power Named ‘Most Successful’ New Green Power Program

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has named UE’s Pure Power(TM) program the “most successful” New Green Power Program of the year, company officials report. DOE along with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Resource Solutions are honoring 25 leading corporations, renewable energy suppliers and industry pioneers this week. Citing Pure Power as the largest green-pricing programs in the Midwest with... Read more..

Inergy Receives “Impact Award” From National Association of Small Business Investment Companies

Inergy, L.P. announced that The National Association of Small Business Investment Companies (NASBIC) has named Inergy a recipient of its 50th Anniversary “Impact Awards.” Inergy is being honored at a luncheon presentation today during the NASBIC’s 50th Annual Meeting & Private Equity Conference. Inergy – along with Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, and Quiznos, a national franchise company with over 5,000 restaurants... Read more..

ProEnergy Expands Services

ProEnergy Services continues to expand its single-source capabilities with the addition of EPC Services, which will provide turn-key engineering, procurement and construction services for the power generation industry. Although ProEnergy has offered engineering and construction services throughout its history, EPC Services will expand those capabilities to allow a more focused approach, said ProEnergy President Jeff Canon. EPC Services’ specialists... Read more..

Inergy Holdings, L.P. Declares 13th Consecutive Increase in Quarterly Cash Distribution

The Board of Directors of Inergy Holdings GP, LLC, general partner of Inergy Holdings, L.P., today announced an increase in its quarterly cash distribution to $0.65 per limited partner unit ($2.60 annually) for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. This represents an approximate 6.6% increase over the previously declared quarterly distribution of $0.61 per limited partner unit and an approximate 21.5% increase over the distribution for the same quarter... Read more..

Westar Energy, Horizon Wind Energy and The Empire District Electric Company Dedicate Meridian Way Wind Farm

Westar Energy, Horizon Wind Energy and The Empire District Electric Company will dedicate the Meridian Way Wind Farm with a ribbon cutting ceremony from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Meridian Way Wind Farm site, 1409 Iron Road and Highway 81 in Cloud County. Attendance at this event is by invitation. Media are also invited. Horizon Wind Energy expects about 250 landowners as well as state and local leaders to attend. Meridian... Read more..

AmerenUE Crews Wrap Up Power Restoration in St. Louis City and County; Resources Being Poured Into Southeast Missouri

AmerenUE crews restored more than 86,000 Missouri customers since storms from Hurricane Ike hit the area yesterday (Sunday). Approximately 4,300 St. Louis City and County customers remain without power; most are expected to be restored today. Employees from three other Midwestern utility companies are coming into UE’s service territory to help get customers restored in Southeast Missouri where 12,000 customers are still out of power. More than... Read more..

ITC Sends Crews to Assist With Power Restoration in Hurricane-Ravaged Gulf Coast Communities

ITC Holdings Corp. has sent emergency field crews from its Michigan and Iowa operations to Louisiana to assist with power restoration efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. The Gulf Coast storm, which hit Monday, has left more than 1.9 million residents in Louisiana without electricity. More than 90,000 households in neighboring Mississippi are also without power. ITC subsidiaries ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC)... Read more..