Energy News Archives
City of Ann Arbor Pilots LED Street Lights and Reduces Costs
By (Eric) Jin-Gwo Lin, March 17 2010
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Ann Arbor, Michigan has been piloting LED street lights for several years now. The first pilot project replaced all the “globe” street light bulbs in the downtown area. It is indeed a successful project. Per the City, the initial installation will save the City over $100,000 per year in energy costs and reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 267 tons of CO2. Below is the detailed cost comparison by the City of Ann Arbor. Read more ...
From a Press Release by: 
3rd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum - The Top 100 Global Projects "Leading the World Back to Economic Growth - Infrastructure Hotspots, Opportunity Creation & Innovation" Washington, DC December 9 - 11, 2009.
TransGreen Energy provides SUSTAINABLE solutions for the environment, renewable energy and the GreenEconomy™. Through patented integration of the best available technologies, TGE provides beneficial reuse of waste to create clean liquid fuels, building materials and green jobs. Joseph Kelly, CEO of TransGreen Energy, will moderate the New Infrastructure panel on Day 1 of the Forum. TGE is also the sponsor of the opening day workshop, “Accessing New Infrastructure & Clean Energy Funds –Financing Transformative Technologies”.
Ex-Im Bank President to Address Executives at the 3rd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum 
November 30, 2009 07:00 AM Eastern Time,
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CG/LA Infrastructure LLC announced today that Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, will participate as a keynote speaker on Dec. 10th at the 3rd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum...
... Sponsors of the 3rd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum include the African Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), Citigroup, ESRI, Madrid Network, Metro Madrid, Sterne Agee, TAQA - Abu Dhabi's National Energy Company, and TransGreen Energy ...
October 16, 2009, Cadillac News,
By Jeff Broddle
... TransGreen Energy is interested in leasing land at the landfill for construction of a plasma gasification system that would convert waste into energy and yield by-products that could be used as building materials. It also is looking at a similar project in Cadillac, said Joseph Patrick Kelly, TransGreen founder and president. Should TransGreen choose to build in Cadillac, this plant and the TGE Learning Center would be the first of its kind in the area, he said. Once the first project is constructed, Kelly said he hopes to build five to seven more throughout the state....
June 20, 2009, RedChip Companies, Small Cap Investor's News
In June, Alter NRG (TSX: NRG; OTCQX: ANRGF), a clean energy provider focused on commercialization of Westinghouse Plasma’s plasma gasification technology, has announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with Uhde Engineering Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Uhde is part of German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp and is one of the world’s leading engineering companies in the design and construction of chemical, refining and other industrial plants..
November 30, 2008 
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Chuanwu Xi, a University of Michigan environmental health professor who studies how antibiotics find their way into water. He has found antibiotic resistance genes in sewage bacteria getting around wastewater treatment and sneaking into the environment ... conventional wastewater treatment isn't designed to completely remove these micropollutants...
Environmental Protection Agency announced its intent to streamline how health care facilities dispose of drugs, which it said amount to 10,600 tons a year combined for the largest producers. Note- TransGreen Energy CEO comment: "We have the solution ready to model and demonstrate. We can transform this dangerous waste into clean energy."
Trash to cash? (TGE hit the front page in Cadillac!)
November 7, 2008, Cadillac News, By Matt Whetstone
Rick Johnson is confident that a company he represents can bring state-of-the-art technology to Wexford County. And at the same time, Johnson said, this technology will address the county’s landfill contamination problem.
September 14, 2008 
Few of the country's 5,700 hospitals and 45,000 long-term care homes keep data on the pharmaceutical waste they generate. Based on a small sample, though, the AP was able to project an annual national estimate of at least 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals and contaminated packaging, with no way to separate out the drug volume. ...
Such facilities, along with hospitals and hospices, pose distinct challenges because they handle large quantities of powerful and toxic drugs — often more powerful and more toxic than the medications people use at home.
September 10, 2008 WASHINGTON(BUSINESS WIRE)
New Public Opinion Poll Shows Energy Woes Having Dramatic Impact on American Automotive Buying Decisions.
-- An overwhelming majority of Americans -- 86 percent -- say the next vehicle they buy will be more fuel-efficient. The reasons have as much to do with concerns about our dependence on oil as pocketbook concerns, a survey released today by the Diesel Technology Forum found.
Aug 19, 2008, Construction Today
Rockwool is the UK's leading manufacturer of mineral wool insulation for thermal, fire and acoustic protection.
(Note from CEO of TransGreen Energy: Mineral wool insulation or "rockwool" IS one of the valuable products produced by our plasma gasification process. Not only do we produce energy from waste, we will help SAVE energy with this insulating material)
July 22, 2008 (Bloomberg) By Ian McKinnon
July 16, 2008, Boise Daily Journal
July 02, 2008, By
Peter Fairley
This week, city counselors in Ottawa, Ontario, unanimously approved a new waste-to-energy facility that will turn 400 metric tons of garbage per day into 21 megawatts of net electricity--enough to power about 19,000 homes. Rather than burning trash to generate heat, as with an incinerator, the facility proposed by Ottawa-based PlascoEnergy Group employs electric-plasma torches to gasify the municipal waste and enlist the gas to generate electricity. A few waste-to-energy gasification plants have been built in Europe and Asia, where landfilling is more difficult and energy has historically been more costly. But PlascoEnergy's plant would be the first large facility of its kind in North America...
July 2, 2008 (Bloomberg), By Robert Tuttle
July 2, 2008 (Bloomberg),
By Ayesha Daya
June 23, 2008, By
Lisa Kaczke
June 22,2008, Green Car Congress
June 18, 2008, Waste Management News
June 12, 2008, PHILADELPHIA, Donna Heron 215-814-5113 / heron.donna@epa.gov
June 12, 2008, By
Martin LaMonica
June 10, 2008, By David Galland, Stowe, Vermont, U.S.A.
June 10 (Bloomberg), By Jeff Wilson
June 9, 2008 (Bloomberg), By Nesa Subrahmaniyan and Christian Schmollinger
May 29, 2008, By Chris Mayer, editor, Capital & Crisis
TransGreen Energy CEO comment on article: “Sulfur is one of the commodities we reclaim and resell.”
May 8, 2008 12:20:00 PM, Source AEI
Calgary January 14, 2008 – Alter Nrg is pleased to announce that it has completed a sale of Plasma
Garbage In, Megawatts Out - Ottawa will build the first gasification facility in North America to make energy from waste.