Hudson Ranch Power Commences Construction of 49 MW Imperial Valley, CA Geothermal Project.The Hudson Ranch I Power project will be one of the best geothermal resources in North America and will create over 200 jobs in Imperial County, California.
Annapolis, MD - Hannon Armstrong LLC, a 30-year old Annapolis based investment and merchant bank specializing in financing energy, telecommunication and water infrastructure assets announced the commencement of construction of the Hudson Ranch I project, a 49 MW high temperature geothermal power generation project in Imperial County, California. The project has been under development since 2006 by Catalyst Renewables and Hannon Armstrong, the majority owners of EnergySource (formerly CHAR). - May 13, 2010
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HANNON ARMSTRONG, TRUESTONE AND TE SUBCOM COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF HANTRU1 CABLE SYSTEM.
System Completion Marks Arrival of High-Bandwidth Regional and International Connectivity for Kwajalein. ANNAPOLIS, MD; ANCHORAGE, AK and MORRISTOWN, NJ. Hannon Armstrong Capital, LLC, Truestone, LLC and TE SubCom, an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, today announced they have completed construction and commissioning of the HANTRU1 Cable System. The system, which connects Kwajalein in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Guam, will provide regional and international connectivity in the previously underserved Pacific region, via undersea fiber connections. - March 29, 2010
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Hannon Armstrong finances biomass cogeneration facility and attends ground breaking ceremony with U.S. Secretary of Energy at SRS.
Hannon Armstrong attended the ground breaking on a new energy plant Savannah River Site in South Carolina along with U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu. Site leaders claim the initial construction of the facility will create 800 jobs, and over time, mean hundreds of millions of dollars in energy savings. But, they say the biggest savings, is the innovation of this kind of green energy that they claim will eventually mean savings on the power bill, for the entire country.
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Scott Foster speaks at the AGLF/ELFA Public Sector Finance Forum held May 5-7 in Chicago, IL.
The presentation was on Financing Large and Long-Term U.S. Government Infrastructure Projects. - May 7, 2010
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Hannon Armstrong Announces Financial Advisory Services for Department of Energy Loan Guarantees and US Treasury Tax Grants
Hannon Armstrong today launched an advisory service offering for renewable energy project developers to manage the creation and negotiation of DOE Loan Guarantees and US Treasury Tax Grants. The DOE Loan Guarantees were substantially expanded in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, yet the expansion builds on existing loan Guarantee programs Hannon Armstrong has participated with in the past. - March 9, 2009
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Scott Foster featured in Submarine Telecoms Forum Magazine
"Financing Large Infrastructure Projects" The building of large infrastructure projects has been neglected over the last quarter of a century. Many of these needed projects have not been implemented because necessary capital funds have not been available to either the governmental or commercial entities that would benefit from these projects - March 15, 2009
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Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeff Eckel joins The Maryland Clean Energy Center
Annapolis, MD: The region's first ever center dedicated to the promotion of clean energy development has launched in Maryland. With the recent appointment of the Board of Directors by Governor Martin O'Malley and steps already underway to create the foundation of the Center, the board is actively seeking an executive director and additional staff, working to secure funding and accepting proposals from counties and cities seeking to bring the center to their area. - Jan 8, 2009
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Scott Foster speaks at the 48th annual Equipment Leasing and Finance Association annual convention held October 19, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
The presentation was on Finance and Energy Savings Performance Contracts and Infrastructure Financing. - October 9, 2009
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Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeff Eckel featured in The Economist
"The Elusive Negawatt, If energy conservation both saves money and is good for the planet, why don't people do more of it?" - May 8, 2008
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Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeff Eckel speaks at Meridian International Center for The “20-Now” Action Forum
The "20-Now": Financing Green Buildings Action Forum was designed to promote global and national best practices in financing energy efficiency projects to achieve zero net emission buildings. The audience included over one hundred regional and national building owners, developers, and financial institutions who have expressed an interest and commitment to energy efficiency in their work. - April 2008
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Hannon Armstrong joins Washington, DC's Cool Capital Challenge
Cool Capital Challenge unites individuals, schools, congregations, businesses, governments and other institutions to take a billion-pound bite out of the Capital Region's carbon dioxide emissions by April 2009. The Challenge is like a fundraising campaign, only instead of pledging money, they are pledging the region's greenhouse gas emission reduction.
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Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeff Eckel featured in industry interviews in "The State of Renewable Energy Finance 2007"
The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) produced the video as part of its works to bring all forms of renewable energy into the mainstream of America's economy and lifestyle. - August 2006
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VA Tech launches Energy Efficiency partnership with HA
In October 2007, Virginia Tech launched the Energy Efficiency Partnership of Greater Washington. The initiative brings together partners in energy efficiency financing, utility providers, urban developers, local municipalities and architects to tackle the problem of global warming by retrofitting existing buildings with energy efficiency products throughout the region. - October 2007
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Hannon Armstrong works with Clinton Foundation
Hannon Armstrong will work alongside the Clinton Foundation as part of the Clinton Climate Initiative's Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program to develop effective mechanisms to deploy energy efficiency finance capital globally.
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