WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthening partnerships with Tribal Nations and supporting tribal energy development, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week announced that 19 clean energy projects to receive more than $6.5 million. These competitively selected projects will allow Native American Tribes to advance clean energy within their [...]
8minutenergy Renewables, LLC, signed a 25-year contract to sell 200 megawatts (200MWac) of clean, renewable solar energy from the Mount Signal Solar project in Imperial Valley, Calif., to San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). The transaction was conducted with 82LV 8ME, LLC, a subsidiary of 8minutenergy Renewables, a leading independent solar PV developer based in [...]
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the release of $18.0 million to fund six military programs to reduce the energy demand of future expeditionary outposts. The funds will support efforts to develop and rapidly transition energy technologies for the combat force, resulting in improved military capabilities, fewer energy-related casualties, and lower costs for the [...]
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, welcome to the State Department, to the Benjamin Franklin Room. Benjamin Franklin was not only our first diplomat, but our first great scientist. So I think he would be particularly pleased that we would be holding such an important gathering here today while he looks down on us, urging us to move [...]
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has raised a new £95 million fund to invest in innovative green energy businesses in a deal involving the acquisition of a portfolio of clean energy assets from SSE Ventures, the investment arm of FTSE 100 utilities company SSE plc. SEP raised the new secondaries fund from four institutional investors, headed [...]
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. Lime Energy Co. LIME -1.17% announced today that the Zemel Road Landfill Gas to Energy Facility has been named Project of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP). The LMOP is a voluntary assistance program that helps to reduce methane emissions from landfills by encouraging the recovery [...]
Today, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) introduced its new Energy Innovation Center (the Center), a showcase facility where residential and business customers can learn about energy efficiency, alternative fuel transportation, Smart Grid, and clean generation. The Energy Innovation Center offers an array of seminars on energy efficiency; classes in the food service demonstration kitchen; [...]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 January, 2012: I am pleased to be with you for this Assembly at the beginning of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. Abu Dhabi, home to IRENA and host of the [...]
Cal-Bay International, Inc. has announced the company has finalized the process of revising the company’s real estate and land lease acquisition business plan along with the future direction for the production of “Alternative Fuels & Clean Energy” from subsidiary companies. The company is moving forward with the previously planned acquisition of an established Land Development company. [...]
ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) this week announced that its biomass gasification solution produced carbon negative heat and power for the last half-month of its 2011 operations in Germany. The carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with [...]
A new report issued today by Fitch Ratings discusses the clean energy practices settlement enacted by California legislators on Nov. 23, 2011. The settlement, know as the Qualifying Facility and Combined Heat and Power (QF/CHP) Program, took the following steps: –Established capacity targets under the settlement for investor-owned utilities (IOUs); –Revised the calculation of Short [...]
FuelCell Energy, Inc. FCEL -0.02% a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable power plants, today announced a partnership agreement with Abengoa S.A. to develop localized stationary fuel cell power plants for markets in Europe and Latin America. Abengoa will develop, manufacture and market stationary fuel cell power plants using fuel cell modules provided by [...]
Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sandia National Laboratories Vice President Rick Stulen have announced a $15 million, three-year partnership to establish a joint Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation to be housed at the University of Vermont. Researchers at the center will collaborate on research in [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
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Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
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