Ben Franklin funds $2M to seven Southeast PA firms on heels of Early Stage Venture Showcase
The visionary folks at Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA have been as busy as the companies they support.
Q and A: Colleen Snee, EnergyConnect
The energy and marketing veteran is focused on demand response innovation from a growing company straddling Silicon Valley and PJM Interconnect territory in Southeastern PA, and time is running out to save money for institutional customers.
Craigslist for manure: Free website connects buyers and sellers of biomass and compost
Have some manure to get rid of? In the market for switchgrass to convert to fuel? If you're in the Keystone State, you might want to bookmark the Pennsylvania Biomass Trader on your Internet browser.
Clean Technology Resource Center provides guidance for alternative energy use and commercialization
Small business owners statewide have heard a lot about alternative energy, but it can be difficult to figure out how they might best be able to use it. Enter the Clean Technology Resource Center.
New energy-focused continuing education programs coming to Luzerne County
Penn State Hazleton and a local economic development group are partnering to develop continuing education focused on energy.
Upcoming hearing will give senators information about windmills in Lake Erie
Two Erie-area state senators will host a hearing next month about the possible impact of allowing wind turbines to be built off Pennsylvania's Lake Erie shoreline.
Faces of Energy: Paul Montgomery, Cook Stove Innovator
It's not everyday that a college student engineers a product that could help billions of people around the world. But for this Penn State grad's small cook stove, the promise is big.
Meet the 'higros': Businesses that generate nearly every new job in PA
Less than 1 percent of Pennsylvania businesses create nearly every new job in the state. Identifying these businesses and encouraging their growth would be a new approach to economic development.
EverPower building $350M windfarm in Cambria, hiring
Somerset County will be home to a new $350 million, 170-megawatt wind energy farm, the largest project in Pennsylvania to date developed by New York City-based EverPower.
Lehigh University gets $1.2M in grants to continue materials and energy research
Lehigh University is receiving $1.2 million in state grants to continue initiatives that put academic research to work in the business world.