Draker Selected by Johnson Controls to Monitor Milwaukee Area Technical College Solar Project Burlington, VT . Draker Labs has been selected by Johnson Controls, a global leader in delivering products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency, to provide monitoring services for the Milwaukee Area Technical College’s (MATC) Photovoltaic Educational Laboratory.
Qatar Petroleum and Shell today announced the first flow of dedicated offshore gas into the Pearl Gas-To-Liquid plant located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in the State of Qatar.
Purchase Expected to Increase Solar Generation in Pennsylvania by 2,200 Megawatt-Hours Annually READING, Pa.- FirstEnergy Corp.’s (NYSE: FE) subsidiary Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power) has successfully contracted for 19,800 Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs). One SREC represents the solar renewable energy attributes of one megawatt-hour of generation from a solar generating facility.
SAN RAMON, Calif.-Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) has appealed the judgment entered last month against the company by the Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbíos in Lago Agrio, Ecuador in a lawsuit alleging that Texaco Petroleum Company’s participation in a state-controlled oil consortium prior to 1990 makes Chevron responsible for environmental impacts in the area.
New Orleans, La. – Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) and its employees express their deepest sympathies to the people of Japan during this difficult time. Entergy’s nuclear employees are closely monitoring the situation in coordination with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and industry peers. Working through [...]
- BOSTON – The Patrick-Murray Administration this week announced the next round of grants worth $3.6 million to the state’s newest Green Communities – 18 cities and towns from Boston to the Berkshires that earned the designation last December, making them eligible for awards to fund local renewable power and energy efficiency projects that will advance [...]
Wellingborough, UK – Germany’s BELECTRIC developed more than 300 MW of PV systems in 2010, propelling it to the top of IMS Research’s 2010 Global PV System Integrator Rankings. The company (formerly known as Beck Energy) narrowly edged out Germany-based juwi, and ranked five places ahead of 2009 leader Q-Cells International, which saw close to [...]
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As the lights come back on in the Cook Islands, the 134th country to celebrate Earth Hour 2011 – a record breaking year for the annual lights-out event – the global community has shown it is united in commitment to a sustainable future.
WASHINGTON, D.C. While a drop in public support for nuclear power would be expected after an incident like the Fukushima reactor crisis, the nuclear disaster in Japan has triggered a much stronger response among Americans, a majority of whom would freeze new nuclear power construction, stop additional federal loan guarantees for reactors, shift away from [...]
DETROIT.- DTE Energy today initiated a Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify qualified solar photovoltaic (PV) panel suppliers to provide solar panels and logistics for the company’s solar energy installations.
Washington, DC. – The Pew Charitable Trusts announced this week that former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm will serve as a senior advisor in their efforts to promote clean energy policies that create jobs, stimulate innovation, spur investment and enhance America’s competitiveness in the global clean energy race. Gov. Granholm will travel the country to [...]
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.- Siemens Industry, Inc., this week introduced the Siemens Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) program from the Building Technologies Division. The program, implemented in collaboration with Siemens Financial Services, allows customers to bring “clean” solar energy projects on their properties without making an initial capital investment in solar equipment.
Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles — quantum dots — affects the particles’ ability to transfer energy to electrons to generate electricity.
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