Medical Facility in Florida Designed with Sustainability in Mind

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Health Care REIT’s commitment to innovative, sustainable building design principles and energy management solutions is an integral part of the company’s business model.

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Siemens Ordered to Pay €648 million to ExPartner in Nuclear Energy Technology

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Earlier this month, an arbitral tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ruled on the modalities of Siemens’ exit from the nuclear power joint venture Areva NP. According to the tribunal’s ruling, Siemens had not fully met its contractual obligations toward its former joint venture partner Areva S.A.

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California Solar Initive Funds Large Part of New Senior Housing Solar Hot Water

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SunWater Solar and the Chinatown Community Development Center (CDC) today announced the completion of a new solar water-heating system at Larkin Pine Senior Housing, a San Francisco affordable housing development home to 90 seniors.

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New Evacuated Solar Tube Collector Eligible for Federal Rebates and Incentives

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Apricus, a leading designer and manufacturer of solar hot water and hydronic heating products, is pleased to announce their new AP-30C Evacuated Tube Collector. Designed for use in commercial projects, the collector meets and exceeds the requirements of the Buy American Act and is eligible for use in projects funded by the American Recovery and [...]

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Will Clean Energy Investments Help the U.S. Economy?

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As the nation welcomed news that the economy added more than 200,000 jobs last month, and President Obama renewed his call for pursuing clean energy sources to break the United States’ dependence on foreign oil while creating new jobs for Americans, skeptics were asking if investing in clean energy would actually help our nation’s economy.

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The Launch of a New Energy Education Initiative

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Washington, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Dr. Francis Eberle, Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), today to announce the launch of a new energy education initiative: America’s Home Energy Education Challenge.

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IAEA Sends International Fact-finding Expert Mission to Japan

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 The International Atomic Energy Agency will dispatch an international expert fact-finding mission to Japan. Based upon the agreement between the IAEA and the Government of Japan, the mission, comprising nearly 20 international and IAEA experts from a dozen countries, will visit Japan between 24 May and 2 June 2011.

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Energy Commission Awards Nearly $2.9 Million for Research Projects

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SACRAMENTO – The California Energy Commission today awarded $2,872,755 for four research projects. The research areas include renewable energy, climate change, and the safety of natural gas pipelines. Funds for the projects come from the Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.

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Online-trading Platform for Photovoltaics Expands and Enlarges its Range

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pvXchange Expands its International Market Position Berlin. After a successful previous year and with a new experienced investor on board, the market leader for the brokerage of photovoltaic products, pvXchange, is now entering the second half year of 2011 in a much stronger position.

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New Innovations in Thermal Energy Storage for Thermosolar Plants

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At SENER ,the engineering and technology group is making sustainable advances in thermal storage such as a single-tank system and a graphite storage system. At present SENER has a portfolio of 19 solar plants in which it has provided its solar technology, most of them count with the molten salt storage system developed by SENER, including [...]

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A Floating Liquid Natural Gas Plant. A Problem Waiting to Happen?

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  The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) has taken the final investment decision on the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Project in Australia (100% Shell), building the world’s first FLNG facility. Moored far out to sea, some 200 kilometres from the nearest land in Australia, the FLNG facility will produce gas from [...]

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Rooftop Solar Project Aims to Reach Net Zero Energy Consumption in 2011

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  Clarke Launches Clarke, New England’s exclusive Sub-Zero and Wolf appliance distributor, ranks in Top 5 Solar Rooftop Projects in Massachusetts with conversion of its 106,500-square-foot headquarters complex in Milford, MA. The project will be completed before Labor Day 2011.

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Cool Vendors in Solar Energy

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Cogenra Solar™, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems and renewable energy service solutions, has been recognized in Gartner’s 2011 list of Cool Vendors in Solar Energy. This year, Gartner Inc., the world’s leading technology industry research firm highlighted “five vendors in the solar energy industry whose business and technical innovations have the potential to [...]

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