In the absence of a sufficient product market to sell into, A123 Systems has decided to go it alone. The company has announced it will begin selling the Hymotion L5 PHEV conversion module into a handful of major U.S. cities, including Boston, D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco. The PHEV conversion module, which A123 picked up [...]
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April 28
A Discussion of Wind Energy and Cape Wind with Mark Rodgers, Communications Director, Cape Wind, 4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m. @ ENG 24, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Oil Shockwave: Oil [...]
Coskata has announced the location of its 40,000 square foot, $25 million pilot plant. The cellulosic ethanol fab will located at the Westinghouse Plasma Center, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh in Madison, PA, and will be co-located with the Westinghouse Plasma Corp.’s plasma gasifier - a move that gives more clues about Coskata’s production [...]
edf energies nouvelles has won a contract to develop a 99 MW wind farm in Iowa. The contract, which was executed through enXco, edf’s North American subsidiary, will use 66 1.5 MW General Electric turbines to provide electricity for the Wisconsin Public Service Company. The Crane Creek deal is edf’s second large investment in the [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday he would reconsider the UK’s biofuels policy. Speaking ahead of a summit on the worsening global food crisis - dubbed a “silent tsunami” by the World Food Program - Browne told reporters “we need to look closely at the impact on food prices and the environment of different [...]
TH!NK Global (GTM’s #8 startup) will form a joint venture with VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Rockport Capital to distribute the company’s electric vehicles in the U.S. The JV, to be called TH!NK North America, will begin selling its TH!NK City two seater in the U.S. by 2009, with volume sales hitting [...]
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