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PennyPerformers.com: "Penny Stocks that Perform" picks are: AMOR, CBAI, ELON, SOL, YGE(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:27012009 Pennyperformers.com "Penny Stocks that Perform" picks are: AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc. (OTCBB: AMOR), Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTCBB: CBAI), Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), ReneSola Ltd (NYSE: SOL), Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE)...and Proudly Introducing Proprietary Push Technology (PPT). The Newest and Revolutionary Technology for Increasing Investor Visability. REAL Awareness for REAL Companies. Click below for a full demonstration. http://newmediaadvisors.info/newmedia.swf Sign-up for our FREE Stock Alerts AND NEWSLETTER at www.pennyperformers.com Jan 26, 2009 -- AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc. (OTCBB: AMOR), announced today that it has just completed design drawings to build a mobile bio-diesel device. The Company's design is a mobile biodiesel production plant, capable of producing 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of biodiesel per week. The designed plant fits into a standard truck-trailer with dimensions 8 feet wide by 45 feet long by 9.5 feet tall. Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in diesel engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics. Biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification whereby the glycerin is separated from the fat or vegetable oil. The process leaves behind two products -- methyl esters (the chemical name for biodiesel) and glycerin (a valuable byproduct usually sold to be used in soaps and other products). Biodiesel is better for the environment because it is made from renewable resources and has lower emissions compared to petroleum diesel. It is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as fast as sugar. Since it is made in the USA from renewable resources such as soybeans and recycled vegetable oil, its use decreases our dependence on foreign oil and contributes to our own economy. According to Anthony K. Miller, CEO, "The mobile biodiesel plant is to be self sufficient, adaptable to different grades of waste vegetable oil (WVO), environmentally friendly, and economical. Our initial goal is to produce fuel that can be used to operate our patent steam generators, oil field equipment and/or our vehicles. Biodiesel is typically blended with diesel for usage and any surplus we produce can be sold for a profit. We can sell the glycerin as a profit center as well." Miller added, "Management and our consultants have extensive experience in this field, with involvement in one of the first stationary plants built in California. We are extremely excited by the promise this can hold for our Company." Biodiesel is fuel considered as GREEN and a focus of the current democratic administration as noted by the following Links: http://domesticfuel.com/2008/12/15/obama-picks-please-biodiesel-board/; http://domesticfuel.com/2009/01/16/biodiesel-leads-asas-priorities-to-ob ama/; http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/biodiesel/. About AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc.: Our mission is to use, sell and produce our patent and patent pending technologies, providing environmentally safe and cost-effective apparatus designed to maximize oil production in oil fields, in both domestic and international markets. To provide solutions to the world with technology that will recover crude oil that would otherwise remain in the ground forever. By utilizing proper development, partnership and strategic alliances, we will attain this goal. Jan 27, 2009 -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTCBB: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, said today that it intends a rapid expansion of its health insurance partnership program to new geographies in 2009. This announcement from Cord Blood America comes on the heels of last week's announcement that the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. government will allow the world's first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. Founder and CEO Matthew Schissler, in reviewing the domestic stem cell industry, predicts that 2009 will be an excellent, milestone year for stem cell storage companies, including CBAI. "Now is the right time. We have focused our business on three primary locations for several years, developing deep relationships with health insurance providers to become their recommended source for storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells." Mr. Schissler says Cord Blood America's stem cell storage subsidiary, CorCell, will attempt to enter into contracts with two or three more geographic health insurance providers, which would double the company's current health insurance provider base. "With a national health insurance plan and stem cell agenda as two of the primary topics from the new administration, we see a marriage of the insurance companies possibly paying for stem cell storage on the horizon, even if it is on a limited basis for high risk families. By developing the insurance sales channel, we feel we are positioning ourselves for long term success in becoming a globally dominant stem cell storage company." Mr. Schissler went on to say that the growth will have limited cost because all infrastructure needed has been put into place over the course of many years. CBAI has a history of being able to finance its growth, with the most recent funding of $4 million transacting in July of 2008. "With a very low cash burn, we feel we're well financed for the next few years," Schissler commented. "We'll use this time to get cash flow positive and reduce debt while growing both organically and through accretive acquisitions." The company also is reporting tremendous success in engaging its clients, prospective clients, shareholders and prospective investors via social media with the help and intuition of NetGenPR. Cord Blood America is currently on Twitter, Facebook and Intelligendo, and soon to be available on FriendFeed. "The conversation has begun. Groups from all over are discussing the impact of stem cells on every day life. We're glad we can lead and moderate this information, while trying to be a stem cell company of the people." As previously reported, from 2003 to 2007, CBAI focused on growth. In 2008, the Company changed its tactics attempting to de-lever the company while becoming purely a stem cell storage company, and in the process de-emphasizing its non-core family advertising business. As such, Cord Blood America has reported through first nine months: -- Gross profits for the first nine months have increased to $1.8 million, a 54 percent margin, compared to a 42 percent margin in 2007. -- SGA is down nearly $900,000, a 23 percent savings. -- Loss from operations is down nearly 20 percent. -- Loss per share is down 60 percent, from 0.05 to 0.02. "We believe 2009 to be a turning point year for CBAI. We're excited to get going," Mr. Schissler concluded. Cord Blood America is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation for expectant parents and their children. Its mission is to be the most respected stem cell preservation company in the industry. Collected through a safe and non-invasive process, cord blood stem cells offer a powerful and potentially life-saving resource for treating a growing number of ailments, including cancer, leukemia, blood, and immune disorders. Jan 26, 2009 -- Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) and Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, announced today that they are partnering to bring energy and facility management solutions to market. As part of this partnership, Echelon joins the Wonderware Endorsed Hardware Program - one of only a few companies endorsed for this program - and the Echelon i.LON(R) SmartServer will be integrated with Wonderware software solutions. Wonderware and Echelon's combined software and hardware solutions will bring facilities more choices in how to connect, manage and control their equipment for operation cost savings and energy conservation. The announcement was made today at the 2009 AHR Expo in Chicago, the world's largest HVAC&R exposition. i.LON SmartServer-equipped networks that use Wonderware facility management software provide detailed insight into energy use, trends and analysis, as well as the ability to directly control remote equipment. The Wonderware Endorsed Hardware Program helps ensure that third-party hardware offerings compliment Wonderware software solutions, facilitate compatibility and improved application performance, and help lower application development costs. Echelon's i.LON SmartServer is a key component of a building automation systems and energy management networks. The i.LON SmartServer controls, monitors, and manages virtually any electronic control device in the network. It is used in energy management solutions for retail stores, quick-service restaurants, commercial buildings and other businesses, as well as for monitored street lighting systems. "We are pleased that Wonderware has selected the i.LON SmartServer as one of its key partner products for the rapidly expanding energy management market. Working together with Wonderware, we believe that we can accelerate the adoption of enterprise-wide energy strategies for companies both large and small. Becoming more efficient, reducing energy waste and optimizing resources in buildings are critical to today's businesses worldwide," said Anders Axelsson, Echelon's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "Our hardware partners provide products that are closely integrated with Wonderware software for improved performance and lower maintenance costs. These products are selected because they are best-of-breed in their related industries," said John Bishop, industry manager, facility management solutions, Wonderware. "Echelon's i.LON SmartServer is a proven, reliable product that is used in energy management applications worldwide. Combined with the company's championing of open markets and systems, choosing to partner with Echelon was a clear choice." Wonderware software already is used in more than 125,000 installations around the globe. Echelon's i.LON SmartServer offers energy-saving benefits for many types of applications, including demand response programs and other real-time energy management systems, building automation systems, monitored street lighting systems, and industrial applications. About Wonderware Wonderware is the market leader in real-time operations management software which includes: Supervisory HMI, GeoSCADA, Production Management, MES, Performance Management, EMI, and integration with asset management, supply and demand chain and ERP applications. Wonderware delivers significant cost reductions associated with designing, building, deploying and maintaining secure and standardized applications for manufacturing and infrastructure operations. Wonderware software solutions enable companies to synchronize their production operations with business objectives, obtaining the speed and flexibility to attain sustained profitability. Wonderware has over 500,000 active software licenses, helping customers manage operations in over 125,000 plants and facilities. This represents over 36% of the 350,000 estimated world's plants and facilities with 20 or more employees. Wonderware has customers in virtually every global industry -- including Food & Beverage, Power, Water & Wastewater, Facilities, Transportation, Upstream Oil & Gas, Mining, Metals and other. Wonderware offers software solutions that tie together multiple fleets of plants and facilities, and enables new ways for customers, suppliers and producers to collaborate. Based in Lake Forest, California, Wonderware serves its customers through an expansive global network of Wonderware Authorized Distributors - 160 offices serving 180 countries, and local and regional systems integration and implementation services are provided through a broad global network of over 3000 independent systems integrator companies that have chosen Wonderware as a solutions enabler for their end customers. They are backed by the expertise of the global Customer Support & Services team. Wonderware is a business unit of Invensys plc. About Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation is leading the worldwide transformation of the electricity grid into a smart, communicating energy network, connecting utilities to their customers, and providing customers with energy aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid. Echelon's NES System - the backbone for the smart grid - is used by utilities to replace existing stand-alone electricity meters with a network infrastructure that is open, inexpensive, reliable, and proven. The NES System helps utilities compete more effectively, reduce operating costs, provide expanded services and help energy users manage and reduce overall energy use. Echelon's LonWorks(R) Infrastructure products extend the smart grid, powering tens of millions of energy aware, everyday devices made by thousands of companies - connecting them to each other and the grid. LonWorks based products work together to monitor and save energy; lower costs; improve productivity; and enhance service, quality, safety, and convenience in utility, municipal, building, industrial, transportation, and home area networks. Echelon, LonWorks and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. Jan 27, 2009 -- ReneSola Ltd (NYSE: SOL) (AIM: SOLA.L),("ReneSola" or the "Company"), a leading Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sichuan ReneSola Material Co. Ltd. signed a RMB800 million (approximately US$117 million) five-year project loan agreement with China Construction Bank, Sichuan Branch to support the construction of ReneSola's polysilicon production facility in Meishan, Sichuan province. "We are pleased to announce that we've secured additional financing for our Sichuan polysilicon manufacturing facility," said Charles Bai, ReneSola's chief financial officer. "The agreement, combined with previously acquired financing, provides ReneSola with approximately 90% of the capital necessary to fund the project to completion. Our ability to secure capital in a tight credit environment demonstrates confidence in the development and operation of our polysilicon facility and faith in our management team's track record of delivering positive results." The Company noted that pilot production for phase one of its Sichuan polysilicon manufacturing facility is expected to commence late in the second quarter of 2009 and phase two pilot production is expected to commence late in the third quarter of 2009. Each phase will consist of 1,500 metric tones ("MT") of polysilicon production. As part of the Company's long-term strategy, the 3,000 MT Sichuan facility will provide ReneSola with a stable and low-cost source of polysilicon feedstock, enhancing its position as a leading wafer producer within the industry." About ReneSola ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola") is a leading global manufacturer of solar wafers based in China. Capitalizing on proprietary technologies and technical know-how, ReneSola manufactures monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar wafers. In addition, ReneSola strives to enhance its competitiveness through upstream integration into virgin polysilicon manufacturing. ReneSola possesses a global network of suppliers and customers that include some of the leading global manufacturers of solar cells and modules. ReneSola's shares are currently traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SOL) and the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: SOLA). Jan 26, 2009 -- Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") product manufacturers, today announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries has entered into a credit agreement for a three-year loan facility with a fund managed by Asia Debt Management Hong Kong Limited ("ADM Capital") to secure additional financing for its business expansion. Pursuant to a credit agreement entered into between Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited ("Yingli China"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company located in Baoding, China, as the borrower, and ADM Capital, as the lender, ADM Capital has agreed to provide a three-year loan facility of up to US$80.0 million to Yingli China for its production capacity expansion and general corporate use. The loan will accrue interest of 12% per annum (payable semi-annually) and is expected to be available for drawdown in one lump sum at any time up to 85 days from the date of the agreement (or such later date as agreed by ADM Capital), subject to the obtaining of certain governmental approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Under the terms of the agreement, the lenders may also require Yingli China to prepay the loan in part or in full if Yingli Green Energy fails to meet certain agreed consolidated operating and financial targets. "This loan facility will provide us with valuable support in these times of continued turmoil in the global financial markets and is expected to further strengthen our ability to complete our expansion plan as scheduled," commented Mr. Zongwei Li, Chief Financial Officer of Yingli Green Energy. "We believe this new financing demonstrates ADM Capital's confidence in our leading position in the industry and the growth potential of our fully integrated business model." "ADM Capital has a long track record of investing in China and the Asian region," stated Grace Tan, a member of ADM Capital's investment committee. "We are very excited at the prospects of our partnership with Yingli Green Energy and the outlook for its solar energy business." Yingli China's repayment obligations under the agreement will be guaranteed by the Company, Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd (the Company's principal operating subsidiary in China) and Ms. Qing Miao, Director of Investor Relations of the Company and daughter of Mr. Liansheng Miao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and will be secured by certain collateral provided by affiliates of Yingli Green Energy. The collateral includes, among others, a pledge by Yingli Power Holding Company Ltd., a company controlled by Mr. Liansheng Miao and the controlling shareholder of the Company, of a fixed number of ordinary shares of the Company it holds (with no obligation to deliver additional shares of collateral nor any default tied to the trading price of the American depositary shares of Yingli Green Energy) and a pledge by Cyber Power Group Limited ("Cyber Power"), a recently acquired, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, of all its equity interest in its Hong Kong subsidiary through which Cyber Power wholly owns Fine Silicon Co., Ltd., a development stage enterprise located in Baoding, China which plans to begin production of solar-grade polysilicon in the second half of 2009. In connection with the loan, the Company has agreed to grant to ADM Capital warrants, exercisable with respect to approximately one-fifth of the warrants every six months starting from the drawdown date of the loan to the third anniversary of the drawdown date of the loan. The initial strike price of the warrants will be based on the volume weighted average closing price per ADS on the New York Stock Exchange for the 20 trading day period immediately prior to the issuance of the warrants, subject to customary antidilutive and similar adjustments. The number of warrants to be granted will be determined based on the final size of the loan on the drawdown date but in no event will exceed 6.6 million. The Company may at its discretion settle the warrants in cash, shares or a mix of cash and shares. The warrantholders' rights to exercise the warrants will terminate on the fifteenth day following the third anniversary of the drawdown date of the loan. The Company has the obligation to purchase all unexercised warrants on the termination date at a price of US$7.00 per warrant. The Company expects to issue the warrants concurrently with the drawdown of the loan. In addition, the Company has agreed to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to cover the resale of the shares (in the form of American depositary shares) to be received by the warrantholders upon exercise of any warrants. As the closing of the transaction contemplated under the agreement is subject to the obtaining of certain governmental approvals and other closing conditions, the Company cannot give assurance that the loan will ultimately close or that if it closes, the principal amount of the loan will reach the maximum principal amount of US$80.0 million as currently contemplated under the agreement. Neither this press release nor the information contained herein constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction. No securities may be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or an exemption from such registration requirement. Any public offering of any securities to be made in the United States will be made only by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act. Such prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from the Company or the selling security holder, will contain, among other things, detailed information regarding the Company, its business and management, as well as financial statements and other financial information regarding the Company. No money, securities or other consideration is being solicited by this press release or the information contained herein and, if sent in response to this press release or the information contained herein will not be accepted. About Yingli Green Energy Yingli Green Energy is one of the world's leading vertically integrated PV product manufacturers. Through the Company's principal operating subsidiary in China, Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd., Yingli Green Energy designs, manufactures and sells PV modules and designs, assembles, sells and installs PV systems that are connected to an electricity transmission grid or operate on a stand-alone basis. With 400 MW of total annual production capacity in each of polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules, Yingli Green Energy is currently one of the largest manufacturers of PV products in the world as measured by annual production capacity. Additionally, Yingli Green Energy is one of a limited number of large-scale PV companies in the world to have adopted a vertically integrated business model. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited, Yingli Green Energy currently plans to expand annual production capacity of polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules to 600 MW in the third quarter of 2009. The Company, through Fine Silicon Co., Ltd., its wholly owned subsidiary, also plans to begin production of solar-grade polysilicon in second half of 2009. Yingli Green Energy sells PV modules under its own brand name, Yingli Solar, to PV system integrators and distributors located in various markets around the world, including Germany, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Belgium, France, China and the United States. 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