Since the beginning of July 2009, Flowserve Corporation (FLS) announced orders worth approximately $88 million. This includes the Westinghouse Electric Co. order, worth more than $45 million, awarded in the third quarter. Flowserve will provide critical safety-related valves, electric motor actuators, and non-safety-related control, ball and plug valves for the Westinghouse AP1000TM nuclear power plants. The rest of the orders were booked in the previous quarters of 2009. The company received several orders from the solar power industry, which are worth more than $31.5 million. This is an important opportunity for Flowserve as the company considers providing pumping solutions to the alternative energy industry a key element in its global strategic growth plan. This order strengthens the company’s position in the growing renewable energy industry. Others include an $8 million order for pumps by Shell Malaysia Exploration & Production to aid in the oil recovery efforts ...

GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC), an alternative energy company developing renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Dominion Real Estate Investments LLC, (DREI) to begin development of a 118 acre solar farm in Lubbock Texas.

The project could provide power to a planned housing development and federal facilities contiguous to Lubbock Airport. The initial project was designed in conjunction with Texas Tech University. The estimated cost of the entire project is approximately $250 million.

“This is another great opportunity for us to take advantage of the many federal and state incentives offered for alternative energy projects,” said Michael Coskun, Vice President of GWS Technologies Inc. “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to team up with Dominion Real Estate Partners again.”

“One of our priorities this year is to incorporate as much "Green" technology as possible into our real estate investment strategies. We are fortunate to

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WASHINGTON -- June 4 -- Representatives of the renewable energy industry today called on Congress to strengthen national renewable electricity standard (RES) proposals in legislation before the House and Senate and seize a historic opportunity to put the U.S. on a path for increased renewable energy and clean jobs.

Stratos Renewables Corporation, an emerging agro-energy company focused on developing a sugarcane ethanol project in South America, announced this morning that Leonard Brooks has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors.

Leonard Brooks, a senior investment banking professional with more than 20 years of investment banking experience, founded and ran a number of investment banking initiatives at prominent firms including most recently the Private Equity Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and the Private Equity Placement Group at UBS. He graduated with an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and has been a member of the Fuqua School of Business Isle Maligne Society since 1985. He also holds a BBA from The College of William & Mary.

Stratos’ CEO, Tom Snyder, commented, “This is another very important step for Stratos Renewables in our evolution. Leonard is a very accomplished finance executive and brings to us valuable experience and

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Paris, 27 February 2008 - The renewable energy industry is stepping up its meteoric rise into the mainstream of the energy sector, according to the REN21 Renewables 2007 Global Status Report. Renewable energy production capacities are growing rapidly as a result of more countries enacting far-reaching policies.

Highlighted here are the following: PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy (PBW), Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (TAN), Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT), First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge US Liquid (QCLN) or the Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy ETF (GEX).It's deja vu all over again. The parallels and similarities between the development and evolution of the "green," alternative, renewable energy industry closely tracks that of the now more mature technology industry of prior decades. Both industries emerged with myriad small companies -- too many to be realistically successful -- all competing for market share with widely accepted products.Both industries rely on first-to-market technological innovations. Stocks in both industries feature high volatility with seemingly daily market moving news. High-flying valuations become value stocks, and vice versa, at any time.If history is any guide, over the coming decades there will emerge a ...

Juhl Wind, Inc. (JUHL.OB) is an established leader in community-based wind power development and management, focused on wind farms projects throughout the United States and Canada. As a pioneer in developing medium- to large-scale community-based wind farms, Juhl Wind has completed 11 wind farm projects and currently provides operations management and oversight to all farms within the portfolio.

Due to a significant pipeline of new products, Juhl Wind’s revenues are expected to accelerate in the short term. In 2009, the company expects revenues to reach roughly $11 million and anticipates revenues near $16 million in 2010. Central to the development of many of these wind farms will be a reliance on the leasing of lands owned by rural farmers in order to provide placement for the thousands of wind turbines that will be installed.

Community-based wind power is one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors of the renewable energy industry. According to the

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Michigan is best known for its auto industry and its beautiful shoreline, which is also the largest freshwater coastline in the world. Although Michigan’s main industry today continues to be the manufacturing industry, the state government encourages different industries to locate in the state through its attractive incentive programs. Some interesting facts about Michigan follow:1. Michigan’s manufacturing industry produces 30% of the total state revenue.2. Recently enacted legislation mandates that by 2015, Michigan’s energy be produced from renewable sources.3. Michigan has a tax-free zone designed for the food processing industry, the forestry industry and the renewable energy industry.4. Michigan’s top agricultural products are dairy products, cattle and calves, hogs and chicken eggs.5. Michigan is the top producer of automobiles in the United States. Its production accounts for 21% of all automobiles manufactured within the country.6. In 2007 ...

Uranium Hunter Corporation is a natural resource company devoted to the exploration and development of deposits of uranium in East Africa. The company has acquired properties in Tanzania that further enhances their position to become an established leader within the renewable energy industry.

Around the world nuclear energy is becoming a core issue for many countries. Currently, 30 countries representing two-thirds of the world’s population use some 442 nuclear reactors to produce 16% of global electricity. Expansion of nuclear energy is underway in some countries already like China and India, who have plans to quadruple their nuclear capacity by 2020.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has significantly increased their projection of world nuclear generating capacity, and they now anticipate at least 60 new plants to be built in the next 15 years. East Africa and Asia are two regions

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