Honda Enters Deal to Decrease Carbon Footprint in Alabama
Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60 percent of the electricity it uses in North America.
Altec’s Long Reach Brings Power to the Navajo Nation
Birmingham's Altec Industries is reaching its long arms west to the Navajo Nation — to households that are among the last to be connected to an electric utility.
Volkert Powers Up Its Energy Domain
94-year-old engineering heavyweight Volkert Inc. is rapidly growing a new energy division.
UAB Works at Superconductors to Halt Electrical Spills
UAB research aims to end electrical spillage through experimental superconductor materials.
Untreated Overflow
In affluent and poor communities alike, untreated sewage overflows into streams as many as 30 times a day across Alabama. Improvements to wastewater utilities usually only follow a problem, including a trip to the hospital after a summer swim.
Energen Corp. Bought for a Premium, $9.2 Billion
Diamondback Energy Inc., based in Midland, Texas, on August 14 agreed to buy Energen Corp. for $9.2 billion.
Pumping Oil, Fighting Raiders
Energen Corp. is feasting on a chunk of assets that could surpass Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar Field as the largest oil field in the world. The company also is being circled by some hungry activist investors.
Petroleum Company Discovers Liquidity in U.K.
Fast growing Diversified Gas & Oil pulls its petroleum from venerable fields in Appalachia and went public a year ago on a London exchange.
Black Gold
More than six decades of oil and gas production in Alabama extends from Huntsville to the Gulf of Mexico.
Coconut Purveyor Marx Brothers Goes Solar
Marx Brothers Inc., a Birmingham company that imports and distributes coconut products, recently installed a rooftop solar system that can generate 35 percent of the company’s annual energy requirements.