Visionary entrepreneurs are hoping to ride e-bikes to profits, and it's getting easier to buy bicycles with batteries and electric motors statewide. A proposed state law would also make them street legal.
A 2006 dispute over rate increases left the Pennsylvania Energy Development Agency reaping the benefits of a multi-million dollar settlement. The final payment was invested this week, creating 1,400 green energy jobs.
New state grants announced this week bring nitrogen tire pumps to 25 tire centers across Pa that will keep motorists' tires fuller for longer, resulting in safer driving and increased fuel efficiency.
Responding to the increase in Marcellus Shale business across Pennsylvania, ARM Oil and Gas has announced the opening of new administrative facilities in Pittsburgh and Scranton, adding jobs and researching new projects.
Haddon Windows, a green windows manufacturer located in Bucks County, has announced the expansion of their Bensalem facility with the help of $100,000 in state investments.
This week, Congressman Kanjorski , Senator Casey, and Willie Taylor, Regional Director of the U.S. Economic Development Administration�s Philadelphia Office announced $2.2 million for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber's Innovation Center at Wilkes-Barre II.
Under contract with the U.S. Navy, York's Air Dynamics has created a sandstorm simulator--a sand tunnel--for use in testing communication and combat equipment.
Dallas' Lennox International, manufacturers of commercial and residential HVAC equipment, are opening a 130,000 sq. ft. facility in Harrisburg, which will create 31 permanent positions.
As the first company in the U.S. to specialize in NeoPor, a popular European insulation material, Dubois' GreenTek Building Solutions seeks to create a niche market with $190,000 in Ben Franklin funding.
History, his own family's and that which lives in books, drives his work ethic, and it may not be long before the rest of the world drinks in the New Castle native's system that purifies water with concentrated solar power.