Yesterday, Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced that it has been awarded an engineering services contract to design a concentrating solar power plant for eSolar, Inc. Fluor will provide design optimization to rapidly scale eSolar’s 46 megawatt power plants. The company did not disclose the contract value, but said that the amount was booked in the third quarter. Fluor boasts three decades of experience in the renewables sector, including work in the solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal and air quality improvement markets. The company is looking to benefit from the fast-growing renewable energy market. Fluor pointed that according to McKinsey & Company research, installed global solar capacity is expected to grow by 30% to 35% annually -- from a total of 10 gigawatts today to 200 to 400 gigawatts by 2020. The company sees a huge potential in the solar, wind and biomass sectors. To capitalize on this potential, ...

Green Star Alternative Energy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GSAE; “GSAE” or the “Company”) (http://www.greenstarae.com) is pleased to announce the signing of non-disclosure agreements between the Green Star/Notos JV and Gamesa Eolica S.L.; as well as between the Green Star/Notos JV and Elektrawinds. The non-disclosure agreements reflect the Company’s efforts to complete discussions with both Gamesa and with Elektrawinds.

Gamesa is one of the main wind turbine manufacturers worldwide and is a leader in the design and development of these turbines. Gamesa has installed more than 16,000 MW of its main product line in 20 countries spread out over four continents. However, manufacturing is only a part of its corporate mandate – the Gamesa Business Unit has the mission of developing and building wind farms.

Elektrawinds is currently the largest private company in the Belgian renewable energy market and was established in 1998. Elektrawinds produces, sells and distributes green power

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BOSTON - June 18 2009 - Satcon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading provider of utility scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, today announced significant growth of its international manufacturing and supply chain operations.

BOSTON -- May 21 2009 -- Satcon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading provider of utility-scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, announced today the availability of the 1 MW PowerGate Plus PV inverter, offering the largest power rating in the industry.

Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc., a fast growing manufacturing middleman between China and the U.S., recently announced record revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2009. Revenue increased a whopping 90% to $10.3 million, while net income jumped 132% to just over $506,000. Earnings per share increased 18% to $.13 when compared to the same period last year.

Worldwide serves clients as an engineering and quality control firm, handling contract manufacturing in China. It allows U.S. and other clients to enjoy the huge cost savings of manufacturing in China, roughly 50% or more, with none of the headaches involved in supervising an overseas operation.

Worldwide works with approximately 100 companies, primarily in the wireless antenna, aerospace, automotive, and electronics industries, but its many subcontractor contacts in the Shanghai area of China allow it to serve almost any manufacturing need. For example, the company’s successful Solar Division, with a

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Clean Edge co-founder Ron Pernick sees prices for renewable energy moving in the opposite direction of conventional energy markets. 

 

Ron Pernick is co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge Inc. The San Francisco area-based consultant and researcher creates indexes to track various segments of the clean energy industry. One of its benchmarks serves as the basis for the PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio (NASDAQ: PWND).  

IndexUniverse.com's Murray Coleman caught up with Pernick recently at Clean Edge's offices in Portland, Ore., working on development of a new index series expected to be unveiled by year's end.

IU.com: What do the correlations between conventional energy pricing trends and alternative energy trends show now?

Pernick: Conventional energy prices are extremely volatile. Over time, you can make the case that those will continue to increase, especially oil. On the other hand, clean energy prices in general have been going down. Solar power is a

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Enable IPC Corp. offers streamlined strategies for transforming technologies into products, and introducing them into the marketplace. The company today announced it has shipped its first batch of ultracapacitor electrodes to IMDEA Energia in Madrid, Spain.

The ultracapacitor is one of Enable IPC’s two break-through energy technologies, which launches the company into the multi-billion renewable energy market. Enable IPC’s ultracapacitor electrodes will be applied to a power conditioning unit by IMEDA and renewable energy manufacturer Green Power, as part of a demonstration in part of the SA2VE project, a program pushed and sponsored by the Spanish government to focus on green energy alternatives.

Dr. Mark Daugherty, CTO of Enable IPC and president of SolRayo, said the role of Enable IPC’s technology in the presentation may give the company exposure to more actors in the renewable energy market.

“This is a high profile demonstration that we expect will lead to

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Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc., a Chinese manufacturing company specializing in products for customers in the industries of solar energy, aerospace, wireless telecommunications, medical equipment and automotive, announced today that its solar division has a backlog totaling $52 million in solar module contracts. To date, the company has signed approximately $90 million in new contracts, most of which are anticipated to be recorded during the current calendar year.

Worldwide Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Jimmy Wang stated, “Our solar division continues to obtain new module contracts from new customers as well as existing customers demonstrating our ability to retain customers as well to gain new customers in the renewable energy market despite of the temporary downturn on the worldwide demand for renewable alternative energy consumption.”

He added, “We are very encouraged by the achievement we have made and anticipate another triple digit growth for our solar business this year. We will continue

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Stratos Renewables Corp. (SRNW.OB) is a developmental-stage company securing its niche in the renewable energy market, positioning itself to emerge as one of the lowest-cost sugarcane ethanol producers in the world. The company recognizes the monetary and environmental benefits sugarcane has over corn and other feedstocks, and is laying the ground work for a multi-phase business plan to carry out its near and long-term goals.

The company’s business strategy revolves around a qualified management team of experienced and varied professionals. As the company moves forward with its plans to develop mills and distilleries in Peru, its success will depend on experienced guidance.

In October 2008, Stratos announced company President Tom Snyder’s appointment as its new CEO. Snyder has overseen more than 40 complex industrial projects, including fertilizer, ammonia, oil and gas, and petro-chemical facilities. He has raised more than $2 billion of equity

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California-based Stratos Renewables Corp. (SRNW.OB) focuses on integrated sugarcane ethanol production in South America. The development-stage company is designing a strategy to develop a project in Peru, which includes the production, processing and distribution of sugarcane ethanol.

The company leverages its strategy on the fact that while the United States has 3 percent of the world’s oil supply, it consumes 25 percent. Aside from the volatile pricing, supply and demand of oil, alternative energy is gaining ground and advocates as more people hit the unemployment lines and concern over the nation’s energy supply increases. “Green jobs” are expected to provide relief to the broken workforce and to cut the lines of energy dependence on foreign sources, which will help push initiatives, funding and legislation for renewable energy through the new U.S. administration.

While Stratos Renewables’ project will be based in Peru, the company

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