(Durham, N.C.) CoaLogix, Inc. and Cormetech, Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement that combines their technical, service and marketing experience to provide innovative long-term emissions reduction solutions to fossil power plants. The agreement is effective immediately and both companies expect that by combining the best of their respective capabilities and resources, they will be recognized as the most capable and valued leaders in SCR management and catalyst supply. (more…)

(Wake Forest, N.C.) PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR) today reported strong revenue and profit results for its second quarter of 2010. Second quarter revenues were $34.3 million, increasing 36.5% compared to $25.1 million in the second quarter of 2009, and diluted earnings per share (“E.P.S.”) were $0.07, increasing 75% compared to $0.04 in the second quarter of 2009. (more…)

(Wake Forest, N.C.) PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR) has scheduled its second quarter 2010 earnings release and conference call for Thursday, August 5, 2010, after the market close. The Company will issue its second quarter 2010 earnings release at approximately 4:15 p.m. eastern time, and will hold its earnings conference call from 5:30-6:30 p.m. eastern time. (more…)

(Washington, D.C.) Standard Solar, Inc. CEO Tony Clifford addressed top Administration officials, including Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, during the White House’s Clean Energy Economy Forum held today in the nation’s capital. Clifford joined business leaders and experts from the Federal government to develop strategies that grow clean energy manufacturing and services to create jobs and build the economy. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) A clear majority of North Carolina small business owners support the clean energy climate legislation that will be taken up in the United States Senate over the next three weeks, according to a major Public Policy Polling survey of 711 small business owners across a three-state region consisting of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Raleigh-based Consert Inc., a smart grid technology provider, announced today that Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), Verizon Ventures and private investors have invested $17.7 million to fund strategic marketing, North American sales and ongoing enhancements of Consert’s advanced smart grid software. (more…)

(Goldsboro, N.C.) Siemens Energy has been awarded contracts to supply a total of five state-of-the-art gas turbine-generator packages for the Lee and Sutton combined cycle power plants in North Carolina. Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., a subsidiary of Progress Energy Inc., a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida, is the purchaser of the equipment. The new, state-of-the-art natural gas-fueled power plants will be replacing old coal-fired generation, resulting in an estimated 60 percent reduction in the facilities’ carbon dioxide emission rate, 100 percent decrease in mercury emissions, nearly 100 percent decrease in the sulfur-dioxides emissions rate and more than 95 percent decrease in the nitrogen-oxides emissions rate. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) A would-be thief posing as a utility worker has attempted to get credit card information over the phone from Progress Energy customers in Raleigh and Cary. The company encourages its customers and other residents to beware of this and other potential scams. According to reports, a male caller who claims to be a field supervisor for Progress Energy has told customers over the phone that their power will be disconnected for nonpayment unless they immediately provide information on a credit or debit card or checking account. (more…)

(Sanford, N.C.) Central Carolina Community College has been selected by the North Carolina Community College System as the Energy Sector lead college for the system’s Code Green Super Curriculum Improvement Project (CIP). The 2010-2012 Code Green Super CIP will develop uniform improvements in curriculum and continuing education green programs in six sectors: energy, transportation, engineering technology, environment, and building. The improvements will be used at North Carolina’s 58 community colleges with the goal of providing outstanding education for workers for the growing green economy. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Gemini Energy Services, a division of Orion International, has been awarded a $200,000 Workforce Development grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, to create a tailored training curriculum for military veterans that will translate their military skill set into a Technical career within the Wind Industry. Orion International has committed an additional $154,000 to the grant award for training, tools and equipment costs, and will oversee the continuation of the program once the grant funding has been exhausted. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Varrow today announced it is one of the first integrators certified to sell and install Vblock infrastructure packages in the Southeastern United States, and one of only 54 organizations worldwide certified to sell the Vblock. The Vblock solutions are pre-integrated and tested infrastructure packages that bring together technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware and deliver them as a single entity to the customer with a single line of support. They combine virtualization, networking, storage, security, and management and deliver these powerful individual components as one solution. (more…)

(Wake Forest, N.C.) PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq: POWR) today announced its EfficientLights business has introduced two new LED lighting products to improve the energy efficiency and quality of light in grocery, drug, and convenience stores. These products include a new light for retailers’ walk-in freezer/coolers and a new light for open refrigerated shelves. These products broaden the Company’s in-store LED lighting product line, and complement its highly successful flagship EfficientLights product for refrigerated case doors. The new lights are being brought to market at the urging of customers who have installed and experienced the benefits of PowerSecure’s flagship LED product, and who have identified a strong marketplace need for these additional in-store LED lighting applications. (more…)