Business Briefs for the Week of Dec. 31, 2007

Jan. 4, 2008
Yes! Solar, EMCOR, Black & Veatch

· Kettering, Ohio-based GE Money and Roseville, Calif.-based Yes! Solar recently agreed to a multi-year relationship to provide revolving and installment consumer loans on solar products. The loans will be provided through the GEOSmart Financing program, managed by GE Money’s Sales Finance unit and are available through the Yes! retail energy outlet in Sacramento, Calif.

· Norwalk, Conn.-based EMCOR Group, Inc., has begun work on a number of new projects in the health-care sector. The projects include Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishiwaka, Ind.; Sutter General Hospital, Sacramento, Calif.; Geary Community Hospital, Junction City, Kan.; and Mannkind Inhale-able Insulin Facility, Danbury, Conn.

· Kansas City, Mo.-based Black & Veatch was recently selected as the engineering program manager by Black Hills Generation for the design and engineering of a new 100MW coal-fired unit near Gillette, Wyo. As program manager, Black & Veatch will use its proprietary design tool, Powrtrack, to perform all detailed mechanical engineering of the plant and oversee electrical and structural engineering of the new unit and its air quality control systems.

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