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New Research Collaboration to Assess Hydrogen and Natural Gas Fuel Systems for Transportation

Sandia National Laboratories and SRI International, an independent research and innovation center, will join forces to explore, test and evaluate a broad range of hydrogen and natural gas fuel systems and components for transportation applications under a new agreement.

31 May 2013

Pacific Green Technologies Enters Acquisition Deal for Biomass Power Project in UK

Pacific Green Technologies Inc. (Ticker Symbol “PGTK”) entered into and closed an agreement to acquire Pacific Green Energy Parks Limited, the sole shareholder of Energy Park Sutton Bridge Limited (“EPSB”), a company incorporated in the UK.

30 May 2013

Zircar Zirconia, Inc. Supplies High Temperature Insulation for Solar Thermochemical Redox Reformer

Zircar Zirconia, Inc., a global leader in high temperature insulation products, was chosen to manufacture custom alumina and ceria components by the California State University at Long Beach Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for the construction this month of a solar powered reformer that will produce hydrogen or syngas from cerium oxide redox reactions.

30 May 2013

BIO Responds to House Energy & Commerce Committee’s White Paper on Renewable Fuel Standard

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today submitted comments in response to the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s third white paper on the Renewable Fuel Standard, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Other Environmental Impacts.”

27 May 2013

Royal Dahlman to Globally Implement MILENA Technology to Produce Green Gas from Waste

The MILENA technology to produce green gas, electricity or fluid fuels from waste and biomass, developed by leading Dutch energy institute ECN, will be applied on a global scale in the next few years. ECN has signed a license agreement with Dutch company Royal Dahlman, which will implement this technology in various countries and across many different projects.

27 May 2013

Over 100MW of New Breaker Universal Safety Systems Shipped by Bentek Solar

Bentek Solar, a leading designer and manufacturer of PV products connecting PV panels to inverters worldwide for the commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, announces that it has shipped more than 100MW of the new Breaker Universal Safety Systems (BUSS) since its recent March 2013 introduction.

23 May 2013

BioEnergy Science Center Marks 500th Scientific Publication

Researchers with the BioEnergy Science Center led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have charted 500 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals in the center's five and half years of operation.

20 May 2013

Fortum's Klaipeda Power Plant Utilizes Municipal, Industrial Waste and Biomass

Dalia Grybauskaitë, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland, have today inaugurated Fortum's new combined heat and power plant in the city of Klaipeda, Lithuania.

17 May 2013

Tampereen Energiantuotanto’s Pellet-Fired Heating Plant Helps the Region Lower CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant, which was supplied by Metso to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, is based on a technological solution that is the first of its kind in the country. It will bring new opportunities to gear the structure of Finnish district heat production towards the goals of sustainable development. Previously, peak load plants have been using fossil fuels because there was no other technology available.

17 May 2013

Construction and Demolition Waste Being Tested as Fuel for Cement Plants

Researchers at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy are working with Lafarge Canada to test using low carbon fuels including construction and demolition waste, asphalt shingles, utility poles and railway ties, to help power cement plants.

14 May 2013