By Jennifer Woodford
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 — Boldly going where no state has gone before, North Carolina is moving its biofuels industry from first generation to second generation technologies and a more affordable and available source of fuel for the nation.
First generation biofuels are dependent on sugars, starches, vegetable oil and animal fats as [...]
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE:BWP - News) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Boardwalk Pipelines, LP (“Boardwalk”) has priced a public offering of $350 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes. The notes will have a 5.75% fixed rate coupon with a price to the public of 99.813% of face value to yield 5.774% [...]
Atlas Energy Resources, LLC (NYSE:ATN - News) (“Atlas Energy” or “the Company”) announced today that has priced a public offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of 12.125% senior unsecured notes due 2017 at an offering price of $98.116 for a yield to maturity of 12.5%. Net proceeds from the offering will be used to [...]
North Carolina residents may be getting a glimpse of the future of clean and efficient energy in the form of an area utility’s new smart grid/solar plan.
According to Duke Energy, it will deploy an array of 213 solar photovoltaic panels with an eye on creating a “virtual power plant” that will combine elements of clean [...]
HOUSTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mariner Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ME - News) today announced that it has priced its underwritten public offerings of common stock and senior notes.
Mariner has agreed to sell 10 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $14.50 per share. The company granted the underwriters a 30-day option [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) took another step in expanding its renewable energy portfolio with the announcement that it is acquiring a 70-megawatt wind power project in Pennsylvania - the company’s first in the eastern U.S.
Duke Energy will purchase the North Allegheny Windpower Project from wind turbine manufacturer and [...]
By John Crane
Published: April 28, 2009
Approximately 200 people turned out Tuesday to hear the three contenders for the Democratic nomination for governor — Creigh Deeds, Brian Moran and Terry McAuliffe — in a forum at the Institute for Advanced Learning & Research.
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and the Danville [...]
Progress Energy has chosen Durham-based Carolina Solar Energy LLC to build a solar power plant on four acres in the Person County Business and Industrial Center near Roxboro.
Carolina Solar Energy will design, construct and operate the 500-kilowat photovoltaic plant. Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Raleigh-based Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), will buy the electricity produced [...]
A layoff in Lexington appears to contradict President Obama’s initiative to generate employment through increased green energy production.
Officials blame bad timing for the decision to cut jobs at PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-based specialty products manufacturer that supplies to the wind energy industry. The company announced Friday that 110 of the 420 employees at its Lexington [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama doesn’t have time for a victory lap now that his Cabinet is finally largely in place.
One level down, he faces gaping holes in the ranks he needs to fill if there is to be any hope of turning his ambitious agenda into action on health care, the environment and [...]
