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- Melrose Law Center Goes Green with Largest Solar Energy System in Vista, Cali...
The Melrose Law Center marked a green milestone for Vista, California by completing the city's first commercial solar energy system under the California Solar Initiative (CSI) Program and the largest system in Vista to date. Melrose Law Center chose SPG Solar, Inc. to design and install the 110 kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system which spans across three buildings that comprise the Center.
- Clean Energy Patent Growth Index 2d Quarter 2008
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., an intellectual property law firm based in Albany, New York, is pleased to announce results for the second quarter of 2008 for the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group.
- Vestas Commends Colorado at DNC in Denver
This week, political leaders from Colorado joined representatives from Vestas at a press conference held at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver, Colorado. Against the backdrop of a 131-foot wind turbine blade produced at Vestas' factory in Windsor, Colorado, the participants discussed the company's expansion in the U.S. as well as public policy measures needed to further strengthen wind power's role as a necessary and vital part of the nation's energy future.
- Suntech Reaches Polysilicon & Wafer Agreements with GCL Silicon
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced that it has signed new supply agreements with GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Inc. Under the terms of the supply agreements, GCL Silicon will supply Suntech with 9,420 metric tons of polysilicon and 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of silicon wafers from 2008 to 2012.
- Mitsubishi To Build PV Cell Plant in Japan
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its plans to construct a new facility for solar photovoltaic (PV) cell production at its Nakatsugawa Works Iida Factory in Nagano Prefecture. The company said that it is expanding its annual production capacity of PV cells in response to a sharp increase in demand for solar power generation systems.
- Hawaiian Coal-Fired Plant Being Converted to Burn Biomass
U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka and U.S. Representatives Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono helped launch Hawaii's newest renewable energy project at a Hawaiian blessing ceremomy for the Hu Honua Bioenergy Facility in the community of Pepeekeo, on the Big Island's Hamakua Coast.
- NP Capital Purchases Solar Energy Inc.
NP Capital Corp announced that it has purchased various assets including the website SolarEnergy.com and the name of Solar Energy Inc. The website currently receives more than 100,000 web hits per month from people seeking information about products or how to enter the solar industry, NP Capital said.
- WELtec & E.ON Start Construction on Biogas Plant
Construction of the one world's largest plants for feeding biogas into the natural gas grid has officially started. WELtec BioPower GmbH had obtained the building permit at the end of May and has now announced that construction began in late July.
- Follow-Up: How Can China's Wind Power Industry Be Growing So Fast?
This summer, a two-part story written by China Strategies LLC elicited many questions about the Chinese wind power industry. Many of the questions were raised by the investment community and centered around a US $450 million contract between Chinese wind turbine manufacturer, Sinovel Wind Power Science and Technology Co. Ltd., and American Superconductor (AMSC). In an attempt to set the record straight, we offer this follow-up story.
- The Cacophony in Today's Energy Policy Debate
Escalating oil and gasoline prices have consumers and politicians lashing out in every direction. U.S. politicians have singled out their favorite scapegoats namely, the big oil companies, whose recent earnings are perceived to be "windfall profits." Creeping into this noisy debate on what to do about high gasoline prices are the tired remedies such as price controls and a Windfall Profits Tax on "obscene" profits being reported by "Big Oil."
- Congress "Localisation on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India". D...
A joint special event during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009 (DSDS 2009)
- Apollo Solar Awarded $4.1M Contract to Develop Innovative Energy System
Bethel, CT -- Apollo Solar, which specializes in the design and manufacture of power electronics for solar energy systems, has been contracted by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide development of less expensive, more efficient technologies to enhance the value of solar systems to home and business owners. The contract consists of three phases, totaling $4.1 Million. Apollo Solar has been awarded the first phase.
- Trinity Solar installs a total of 344 kW across three commercial systems loca...