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Northern Power Acquires Crown Engineering Businesses

Northern Power, the energy services unit of Distributed Energy Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: DESC), has acquired the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) business, as well as the operations and maintenance (O&M) service business, of California-based firm Crown Engineering & Construction. The transaction adds to Northern Power’s EPC and O&M capabilities in California, primarily serving that state’s distributed generation (DG) market, and includes 8 long-term service contracts with an estimated aggregate value of $2 million per year over the next several years. Key employees of Crown familiar with the EPC and O&M service clients will become employees of Northern Power. The agreement took effect April 3, 2006. Ambrose L. Schwallie, CEO of Distributed Energy, said that the acquisition is part of the company’s plan to increase the scale of its energy services business. “California is a key market for us and Crown’s activities are very compatible with our existing capabilities and initiatives; we expect the results of this transaction to prove accretive to our operating results.” The company intends to strengthen its leadership position in the California DG market. According to the California Energy Commission’s 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report, combined heat and power (CHP) DG systems are expected to increase by […]

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Windmills Raise Hurricane of Opposition

The idea of windmills brings to mind bucolic Renaissance paintings of Dutch landscapes and tulip beds. But that’s hardly the experience of some who have to live next to the 400-foot electricity-generating giants being built across America’s breezy plains. They complain about the incessant “whoosh-whoosh-whoosh” of the machines at work, the flashes of light and shade across their windows, and the occasional terrifying midnight screech of turbines repositioning themselves to catch shifting winds. “It sounds like a train going through, except the train never comes through,” said Wayne Danley, whose life had been turned upside down by a giant windmill located 900 feet from his house in rural Fenner, N.Y., where he has lived since 1976. Danley said he fears the days when the winds come from the northwest. “The whoop, whoop, whoop becomes a roar,” he said. And in the spring before the trees sprout leaves, the turning turbine causes flashes of light in his living room that so annoyed his wife, the pastor of a local church, that she had to flee to the bedroom to get away from it. Danley said he has nothing against windmills or the 19 others in the neighboring windfarm. He only wishes […]

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Cape Wind Project Faces New Threat

URL: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/03/cape_wind_project_faces_new_threat/ Website: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/03/cape_wind_project_faces_new_threat/     

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Maryland Adopts Historic Global Warming Law

URL: http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1925&topicId=100002047&docId=l:371465864&start=4 Website: http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1925&topicId=100002047&docId=l:371465864&start=4     

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Deep, Deep Down, Fish Are Booming

URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0330_060330_deep_fish.html Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0330_060330_deep_fish.html     

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