Gaz Métro inc. (”GMi”) announced the filing with Canadian securities regulators of a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus (the “Base Shelf Prospectus”) relating to $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Series L First Mortgage Bonds (the “Series L Bonds”) guaranteed by Gaz Métro Limited Partnership (”Gaz Métro”) which may be issued from time to time [...]

Duke Energy Corp. will buy privately held Catamount Energy Corp. for $240 million, plus assumed debt, to bolster its wind energy generation capability.
Duke bought the Rutland, Vt.-based renewable energy company from private-equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings LLC.
Catamount currently operates facilities providing 300 megawatts of renewable energy.
In May 2007, Duke bought Austin, Texas-based Tierra Energy, which [...]

Shares of Evergreen Solar Inc. shot up after the solar panel producer signed two long-term sales contracts.
Evergreen rose $2.06, or 20.1 percent, to close at $12.30.
Lehman Brothers analyst Vishal Shah raised his target price on the stock and predicted his Wall Street colleagues will soon raise their earnings forecasts for the company as well. That [...]

New York and 15 other states on Tuesday urged federal regulators to put teeth into a proposed pollution rule aimed at making U.S. electric utilities reduce smog and global warming emissions when they expand or modernize their coal-fired power plants.
“Pollution from coal-burning power plants and other facilities cause real problems throughout the United States [...]

After a hearing lasting 15 months and involving dozens of witnesses, the fate of a proposed wind farm that a Vermont-based wind energy company wants to build in northern Lycoming County is in the hands of a county judge.
On Monday, Dec. 18, Judge Nancy Butts heard arguments from attorneys representing the company and the county [...]

A progressive Northeastern petroleum distributor has become the first petroleum company in the nation to earn the status of “certified marketer” for selling biodiesel.
The achievement marks a significant occasion as the biodiesel industry goes into overdrive to ensure that consumers receive only the highest quality fuel in their tanks.
Sprague Energy, Inc., a New Hampshire-based energy [...]