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Hydrogenics Awarded Contract by Gas Natural

Hydrogenics Corporation has been awarded a contract for over EUR 500,000 to deliver a hydrogen station to Gas Natural SDG, a Spanish-based energy services multinational with approximately ten million customers in Spain, Latin America, Italy and France (www.gasnatural.com). Gas Natural will use a Hydrogenics’ HySTAT(TM)-A Hydrogen Station at the Sotavento Galicia wind farm to produce up to 60 Nm3/hr of hydrogen. The hydrogen will be used to fuel an internal combustion engine generator, which in turn will supply electricity to the electric grid. Presently, the Sotavento Galicia wind farm produces more electricity than can be delivered to the grid and the excess “green” electricity cannot be stored or delivered to the electrical grid, resulting in lost revenue. By powering the HySTAT Hydrogen Station with the excess wind energy, Gas Natural will now provide the means to capture high value electricity that otherwise would have been lost and utilize it to make more electricity for the grid than was achievable in the past. The project at the Sotavento Galicia wind farm is completely green and is the sixth project that Hydrogenics has announced with various worldwide customers where hydrogen stations are powered by wind or solar energy. This latest hydrogen station, […]

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Capstone and Broad Sign MOU for Business Development

Capstone Turbine Corporation (CPST) has negotiated and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Broad USA, Inc. to jointly develop fully integrated cogeneration (CCHP) systems. Broad specializes in the design and manufacture of absorption chillers powered by clean and recyclable energies. Broad is headquartered in Beijing, China, with its U.S. headquarters located in Hackensack, N.J. Their products are sold in over 30 countries. The basis of the agreement will synchronize the two companies to follow Capstone’s “cookie-cutter” concept for market standardization of on-site power and CHP solutions. The companies will utilize Broad’s 20, 40 and 60 ton chillers, integrated with Capstone’s microturbines to create a seamless solution to maximize the chiller heat recovery efficiency from the microturbine’s waste heat. Website: [sorry this link is no longer available]     

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Southern Company Using Itron Solution

Atlanta-based Southern Company (SO) is using the Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (MDM) system to support automatic meter reading (AMR) billing of approximately 60,000 residential and commercial customers in two of its four-state service areas — Georgia and Alabama. This is one of the nation’s larger scale meter data management programs for residential customers. Southern Company is planning to use Itron Enterprise Edition to manage interval data for all of its commercial and industrial customers this year. The Itron Enterprise Edition platform is a meter data management solution that improves the collection, management and application of metering-based data. Meter data management helps utilities control costs, improve operations and simplify IT infrastructure by reducing the time to gather, manipulate and reconcile information from multiple collection systems. Managing that data in a single repository also makes it easily accessible to multiple users within the utility and beyond. “By using Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management, we’ve eliminated the patching and manipulation of data in different systems and streamlined our data collection from multiple AMR sources,” said Kevin McDonald, project manager for Southern Company. “This allows us to work more efficiently in the billing process. Beyond billing, meter data management positions us […]

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Medis Ships 200 Power Packs to General Dynamics

Medis Technologies Ltd. (MDTL) has shipped 200 fuel cell Power Pack products to General Dynamics C4 Systems for testing in preparation for delivery of commercial units to its customer base. The aim of this program is to determine the products’ response to a broad range of very rigorous tests relating to its ability to meet other military and civilian specifications. Medis plans to deliver an additional 100 Power Packs to its contract manufacturer Celestica in the next few weeks for a parallel testing program. “This delivery to General Dynamics meets a very important milestone in our program as we ready our Power Packs for introduction into the consumer markets,” said Robert K. Lifton, Chairman & CEO of Medis Technologies. “We already have received a gratifying reaction from potential customers to this product with major retail store and other sales outlets having advised us of their desire to participate in our consumer product launch in the second half of this year.” Website: [sorry this link is no longer available]     

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Bush Address to Focus on Alternative Fuels and Nuclear Plants

By Elisabeth Bumiller and David E. Sanger President Bush will renew a call for the development of alternative fuel for automobiles and promote the construction of new nuclear power plants in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, White House officials said Monday. After years of partisan arguments over the administration’s efforts to open new parts of the country for oil and gas drilling, Mr. Bush will cast his discussion of nonoil sources of energy as an economic imperative for the United States and a national security necessity to reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil. The issues have been part of Mr. Bush’s agenda for years, but never a top priority. He will use his address to refocus attention on them at a time when oil is selling at more than $68 a barrel, close to its all-time high, and Americans are worried about the cost of fueling their cars and heating their homes. White House officials said the address would contain no expensive policy initiatives at a time of growing deficits and when Congress would be focused on midterm elections. Mr. Bush will also use the address to announce new proposals in health care, fiscal policy and […]

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UN Unveils Plan to Release Untapped Wealth

By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent The most potent threats to life on earth – global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict – could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion – $7,000,000,000,000 (3.9trn) – of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today. The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned. In a groundbreaking move, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has drawn up a visionary proposal that has been endorsed by a range of figures including Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate. It says an unprecedented outbreak of co-operation between countries, applied through six specific financial tools, would slice through the Gordian knot of problems that have bedevilled the world for most of the last century. If its recommendations are accepted – and the authors acknowledge this could take years or even decades – it could finally force countries to face up to the fact that their public finance and growth figures conceal the vast damage their economies do to the environment. At the heart […]

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