NTR In The News
NTR plc Group features regularly in print, online and broadcast media, both in Europe and North America. We have selected some recent items that highlight what the world is saying about the Group and our businesses.
In The News
Green Plains Sees Stronger Ethanol Sector
Reuters : September 10 2009
The shakeout in the U.S. ethanol industry in the past year has helped draw stronger players to the business and made producers better able to cope with soft margins, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc’s chief executive said on Thursday.
NTR’s Tessera To Rev Up 1.5MW Stirling Engine Plant
New Energy Finance : August 20 2009
Tessera Solar is partnering with Arizona utility Salt River Project to build Tessera’s first commercial plant, a 1.5MW project that will employ 60 Stirling Energy Systems (SES) concentrating devices. Tessera will build the Maricopa Solar Plant on land leased from SRP, which will purchase the solar energy generated at the site next.
NTR To Build Solar Plant In Arizona
The Irish Times : August 20 2009
Utility company NTR plans to build its first large-scale solar power plant with the deployment of 60 SunCatcher machines in Arizona within five months. The firm expects the 1.5 megawatt (MW) project to demonstrate the commercial viability of a system that uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s energy on to an engine which converts thermal energy to grid-quality electricity.
A Wind Boom in Missouri?
The New York Times Green Inc : August 13 2009
Figures released last month by the American Wind Energy Association show that Missouri’s wind power supply grew far more quickly than that of any other state in the second quarter.
NTR Looks Stateside For Further Growth In Sun And Wind Projects
The Irish Independent : August 06 2009
When NTR sold its nationally vilified West Link toll road to the Government in 2007 and in quick succession offloaded its Airtricity wind energy unit, it could almost have been endgame for the company. With €1.3bn in the bank, it was surely at least a little tempting to simply return almost all the surplus to shareholders, perhaps offload its Greenstar waste business, and contemplate riding off into the corporate sunset.
NTR Eases Into Era Of New Departures
The Sunday Business Post : July 26 2009
Few companies can report a €1.1 billion slump in their bottom line without triggering shareholder unrest, but NTR is a special case. The renewable energy and waste management group had little to worry investors last week despite announcing after-tax losses of €46 million for the year to March, down from profits of €1.05 billion a year earlier. The fall-off was due to the non-recurrence of a series of once-off items in 2008, which included windfall gains from the sale of its 51 per cent stake in wind operator Airtricity and the exiting of its interest in the Westlink toll bridge in Dublin.
NTR Seeks €668m For Energy Projects
The Irish Times : July 24 2009
Utility Company NTR has engaged Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered Bank to advise on its preparations to return to the international capital markets next year to raise as much as $950 million (€668.1 million) to fund the development of its solar and wind energy projects.
Green Plains Thrives by Spreading Its Bets
Kiplinger’s Biofuels Market Alert - Vol 3, No 14 : July 15 2009
While margin pressure and volatile feedstock prices have forced several pure play ethanol producers into bankruptcy, diversified agriculture companies like Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) and The Andersons (ANDE) are rebounding along with the stabilizing economy. Green Plains stock is up nearly fivefold since early March as investors have come to realize that the corn ethanol industry is not going away.
Green Plains Begins Operations At Former VeraSun Ethanol Plant
Platts : July 13 2009
A former VeraSun ethanol plant in Ord, Nebraska, has been restarted by Green Plains Renewable Energy, which also plans to restart a second plant soon due to improving margins, it said Monday.
Catching Rays
The Engineer Online : July 10 2009
Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar have unveiled new solar power collection dishes they have developed with the help of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).