Alstom Grid has won three major High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) contracts with a total value of €800 million (approximately half of this amount was booked in Q1 of the current fiscal year, the other half will be booked in Q2). The HVDC projects will build energy highways for bulk power transmission in India, bring [...]

ISLAND POND, Vt. – The Plum Creek Foundation recently awarded a $3,350 grant to the Essex County Natural Resources Conservation District (ECNRCD) to help fund the Northern New England Native Plant Restoration Project.
The project aims to conserve the area’s water resources by offering affordable native plant seedlings to organizations and landowners throughout northern Vermont and [...]

WASHINGTON – A presentation on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s accelerator fund initiative contest will be held July 16 in Boise, Idaho. SBA officials will give advice on how accelerators and other entrepreneurial ecosystem models can compete for one of 50 awards each totaling $50,000.
Those attending will also get an overview of other helpful federal [...]

The federal government is pouring almost $11 billion per year into a 35,000-employee program dedicated to “groundbreaking” methods to decode encrypted messages such as e-mails, according to an intelligence black budget published by The Washington Post.
The 17-page document, leaked to the paper by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, gives an unprecedented breakdown [...]

WASHINGTON, MARCH 28, 2014 – More than 1.8 million people living in the metropolitan region of Vitória, capital of the State of Espírito Santo, in southeastern Brazil, will benefit from a US$225 million loan approved today by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors. The Espírito Santo Integrated Sustainable Water Management Project will focus on [...]