Environmental Stock Quotes and Company Descriptions

Distributed Energy Systems Corp. engages in the creation and delivery of products and solutions to the to the decentralized energy markets. The company's subsidiary, Proton Energy Systems, Inc., engages in the development of technology related to hydrogen production and fuel cell applications. Distributed Energy's another subsidiary, Northern Power Systems, Inc., engages in the design and integration of projects with an array of technologies, including renewables, combustion, and batteries. It also develops, manufactures, and installs utility grade wind turbines. Its products include EPC services, integrated power systems, on-site power systems, and on-site renewably powered systems. Northern sells its products to domestic and international customers. Distributed Energy Systems Corp. was formed in 1996 and is headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. engages in the invention, engineering, development, and commercialization of materials, products, and production technology in the fields of alternative energy technology and information technology. The company also involves in research and development, and production of proprietary materials and products, as well as in designing and building production machinery. In addition, it offers Photovoltaics, which provides clean energy by converting sunlight into electricity. Further, the company, through a joint venture with Chevron Technology Ventures, provides nickel metal hydride batteries for various applications, including transportation, telecommunication, uninterruptible power supply, military, homeland security, stationary power, and other prismatic battery applications. Energy Conversion was co-founded by Stanford R. Ovshinsky and Iris M. Ovshinsky in 1960. The company is based in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Environmental Power Corporation (EPC), through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, ownership, and operation of noncommodity, renewable, and alternative energy facilities. The company's production facilities produces biofuels or electricity by utilizing fuel derived from its agricultural waste management processes or alternative fuel sources, such as waste coal. EPC, through its subsidiary, Microgy, Inc., develops and deploys a technology for the extraction of methane gas from animal wastes and other organic wastes, which is useful for electricity or thermal energy generation. In addition, the company produces electricity through a waste coal-fired electric generating station in Venango County. EPC was founded by Joseph E. Cresci and Donald A. Livingston in 1982 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Evergreen Solar, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets solar power products primarily in Europe and the United States. It utilizes its proprietary 'String Ribbon' technology process in manufacturing ribbons of crystalline silicon, which are then cut into wafers. These wafers are the primary components of photovoltaic cells that are used to produce solar panels. The company principally offers solar wafer, a flat piece of crystalline silicon that can be processed and assembled into a solar cell; solar cell, a device made from a silicon wafer that converts sunlight into electricity; and solar panel, an assembly of solar cells that are electrically interconnected and laminated for electric power generation, such as on-grid and off-grid generation. Evergreen sells its products through distributors, systems integrators, and value-added resellers. It has a strategic partnership with Q-Cells AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts.

Global Green Solutions Inc. develops and implements ecotechnology solutions for renewable energy and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

NanoLogix, Inc. operates as a nanobiotechnology company that engages in the research, development, and commercialization of technologies for the production of bacteria and disease testing kits, alternative sources of fuel, cancer therapy, and remediation of toxic materials. The company's patents span the identification and antibiotic sensitivity testing of 34 disease-producing bacteria, including M. tuberculosis, mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, pseudomonas, and nocardia. In addition, NanoLogix owns a patent for the nontoxic induction of apoptosis in cancer cells utilizing hydrophobic hydrocarbons. The company, formerly known as Infectech, Inc., was founded by Mitchell S. Felder in 1989. It changed its name to NanoLogix, Inc. in April 2005. NanoLogix is based in Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Spire Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of biomedical, solar equipment, solar systems, and optoelectronics products in the United States. It provides surface treatments to manufacturers of orthopedic and other medical devices in the biomedical area; develops and markets hemodialysis catheters and related devices for the treatment of chronic kidney disease; and performs sponsored research programs into practical applications of biomedical and biophotonic technologies. The company develops, manufactures, and markets specialized equipment for the production of terrestrial photovoltaic modules from solar cells, as well as provides custom and building integrated photovoltaic modules, stand-alone emergency power back up, and electric power grid-connected distributed power generation systems. Spire also provides custom compound semiconductor foundry and fabrication services to customers involved in biomedical/biophotonics instruments, telecommunications, and defense applications. In addition, it offers various services, including compound semiconductor wafer growth, other thin film processes, and related device processing and fabrication, as well as provides materials testing services and performs services in support of sponsored research into practical applications of optoelectronic technologies. The company was founded by Roger G. Little. Spire was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Suncor Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated energy company in Canada. It operates through four segments: Oil Sands, Natural Gas, Energy Marketing and Refining, and Refining and Marketing. The Oil Sands segment recovers bitumen, primarily through oil sands mining and in-situ development, and upgrades it into refinery feedstock, diesel fuel, and by-products. This segment offers light sweet crude oil/diesel and light sour crude oil/bitumen. The Natural Gas segment explores, acquires, develops, and produces natural gas and natural gas liquids from reserves in western Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. This segment also acquires land and explores for coal bed methane in the United States. The Energy Marketing and Refining segment refines crude oil into a range of petroleum, petrochemical, and biofuel products. It offers gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, petrochemicals, heating fuels, and heavy fuel oils for industrial, wholesale, commercial, and retail customers principally in Ontario and Quebec. This segment also engages in third party energy marketing and trading activities. The Refining and Marketing segment refines and markets jet fuels, diesel, gasoline, and asphalt. This segment also transports crude oil through wholly or partly owned pipelines in Wyoming and Colorado. In addition, the company carry on energy trading activities focused principally on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produce. Suncor Energy sells its products in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company, formerly known as Suncor, Inc., was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

SunPower Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of solar electric power technologies. It operates in two segments, Components and Systems. The Components segment sells solar power products, including solar cells, solar panels, and inverters, which convert sunlight to electricity for the utility networks serving installers and resellers for use in residential and commercial applications. It also sells products for use in multi-megawatt solar power plant applications. The Systems segment offers power systems and system technologies, which include development, engineering, and procurement of permits and equipment, as well as construction management, access to financing, monitoring, and maintenance services. This segment serves commercial and governmental entities, investors, utilities, and production home builders. It has solar power system projects in various countries, including Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. This segment also sells distributed rooftop and ground-mounted solar power systems, and central-station power plants. SunPower Corporation offers its products and services primarily in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. SunPower Corporation is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.

Based in Calgary Alberta, Sustainable Energy develops manufactures and markets advanced power inverters for the renewable energy industry. Power inverters are strategic to the integration of new renewable energy technologies - solar and wind power, fuel cells, and energy storage systems - into the high quality power demands of the modern electrical grid.

Thermal Energy International Inc. is an innovative technology company providing custom energy and emission reduction solutions. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, TEI is a designer, design build developer, fabricator, and supplier of proprietary and patented energy conservation, renewable energy and environmental technology solutions. Thermal Energy is a fully accredited professional engineering firm, and offers advanced process and applications engineering services. The Company is a proud member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). FLU-ACE(R), Dry-Rex(TM), THERMALONOx(TM) and THERMALOZOMAx(TM) are trademarks of Thermal Energy International. GEM(R) is a trademark used under exclusive license from Gardner Energy Management Ltd.

U.S. Geothermal, Inc., a development stage company, engages in the development of geothermal energy power plants in the Raft River area of Idaho. As of March 31, 2006, the Raft River project consisted of 10 parcels of leases comprising 783.93 acres of fee land and 4,736.79 acres of contiguous leased geothermal rights located in Cassia County, Idaho. Its leases include U.S. Geothermal Property, the Crank Lease, the Newbold Lease, the Jensen Investments Leases, the Stewart Lease, the Bighorn Mortgage Lease, the Doman Lease, the Griffin Lease, and the Glover Lease. U.S. Geothermal was founded in 2002 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of proprietary systems that generate electricity by harnessing the renewable energy of ocean waves. The company offers utility PowerBuoy system, which is designed to supply electricity to a local or regional electric power grid; and autonomous PowerBuoy system, which is designed to generate power for use independent of the power grid in remote locations. Its customers include public utilities, independent power producers, and other governmental entities and agencies. The company markets and sells its products in the United States and internationally. Ocean Power Technologies was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pennington, New Jersey.

Sustainable Power Corp. is an international green energy total service provider focused on environmentally safe power generation. The company has the exclusive rights to develop and manage a portfolio of green energy plants utilizing a biocrude discovery, a renewable fuel source able to be produced from non-food feed stock.

First Solar, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells solar electric power modules using a proprietary thin film semiconductor technology. The company's solar modules employ a thin layer of cadmium telluride semiconductor material to convert sunlight into electricity. It sells its products to project developers, system integrators, and operators of renewable energy projects primarily in Europe. First Solar also focuses on designing and deploying commercial solar projects for utilities in the United States. The company was founded in 1999. It was formerly known as First Solar Holdings, LLC, and changed its name to First Solar Holdings, Inc. and subsequently to First Solar, Inc. in 2006. The company is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Raser Technologies, Inc. operates as a geothermal power development and technology licensing company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Power Systems, and Transportation and Industrial Technology. The Power Systems segment seeks to develop geothermal electric power generating plants and bottom-cycling operations. The Transportation and Industrial Technology segment focuses on commercializing its Symetron technology to improve the efficiency of electric motors and related components. It provides electromagnetic machine and power electronic drive technology, which is applied to industrial AC induction motors, and drives; permanent magnet synchronous motors; AC generators; and automotive alternators for use in industrial and transportation applications, hybrid-electric and electric vehicle propulsion systems, and other applications where the efficiency of electricity-to-motion or motion-to-electricity power conversions can be improved. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Provo, Utah.

CECO Environmental Corp. provides industrial ventilation and pollution control products and services. It engages in designing, building, and installing systems that remove airborne contaminants from industrial facilities, as well as equipment that controls emissions from such facilities. The company offers component parts for industrial air systems to contractors, distributors, and dealers; industrial air filters; scrubber systems to clean contaminated gas streams; dust collector systems to reduce particulate emissions; and air handling systems used to control fume and oil mist emissions in the steel and aluminum industries; and strip coolers and dryers. CECO also produces thermal oxidizers and regenerative thermal oxidizers that eliminate toxic emission fumes and volatile organic compounds from industrial processes; baghouses that reduce dust particulates from industrial process airstreams; mist collector systems; and interlocking duct systems. The company also provides various services, including industrial ventilation contracting; environmental maintenance, monitoring, and management services; industrial ventilation consulting and source emission testing; and contract fabrication. CECO markets its products and services to the steel, military, aluminum, automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, chemical, cement, metalworking, glass, and foundry industries through own direct workforce and outside sales representatives in the United State, Mexico, Canada, Asia, Europe, and South America. CECO Environmental was incorporated in 1966 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fuel-Tech N.V., through its subsidiary, Fuel Tech, Inc., engages in the development, commercialization, and application of technologies for air pollution control, process optimization, and engineering services. It primarily focuses on the worldwide marketing and sale of nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction and FUEL CHEM processes. Its NOx reduction technologies include the NOxOUT, NOxOUT CASCADE, and NOxOUT SCR processes, which reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources. The FUEL CHEM product line uses chemical processes for the control of slagging, fouling, corrosion, and for plume abatement in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals into the fuel or by targeted in-furnace injection. The company distributes its fuel treatment chemicals through direct sales force and agents to industrial and utility power-generation facilities. Fuel-Tech was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. operates as a biodegradable plastics company. The company intends to develop eco-friendly, non-toxic, food contact compliant, biodegradable plastic products as a practical and viable solution to eliminate plastic waste from the world environment. It focuses on marketing and distributing biodegradable plastic products that would include the 13 gallon kitchen trash bags and 30 gallon lawn and leaf bags. Perf Go Green Holdings principally targets mass retailers to market its products in the United States and Canada. The company is based in New York, New York.