Orbit Energy, Inc.

March 12, 2010 – Orbit Energy Registration for New Renewable Energy Facility in Charlotte

Orbit Energy received an Order Accepting Registration of New Renewable Energy Facility for the planned HSAD plant in Charlotte, NC. This registration acknowledges that the electricity produced from anaerobic digestion of food waste, vegetative waste from landscaping operations, paper and cardboard, agriculture and animal waste, and food processing waste will qualify as renewable energy under the renewable energy under the North Carolina Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards.

The public registration was picked up by several news agencies. Links to articles published in the local press are provided below:

April 23, 2010 - Future of biomass plants up in air

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2010/04/26/story12.html

Charlotte Business Journal

April 3, 2010 - Utilities negotiating with waste-source generators

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/apr/03/utilities-negotiating-with-waste-source-generators/

Winston-Salem Journal

March 23, 2010 - Charlotte’s biomass web

http://www.biofuels-news.com/industry_news.php?item_id=1903

Biofuels International

March 18, 2010 - State OKs $12M Charlotte Biomass Plant

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/power_city/2010/03/state_okays_12m_charlotte_biomass_plant.html

Charlotte Business Journal

March 17, 2010 - Orbit plans digester plant

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/17/392836/orbit-plans-digester-plant.html

News and Observer