Zentric, Inc.Terminates Agreement to Purchase 1.6 MW Solar Project in North Carolina

Zentric announced today that William Tien, President of Zentric, Inc., and the Vendors of Innovative Solar I, LLC and Innovative Solar II, LLC, have mutually agreed to terminate an agreement for Zentric to purchase two separate 800KW solar power plants in Leicester, North Carolina. Zentric is in the final stages of securing project financing that [...]

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Silverback Solar Deploys New Frame Design for 200KW North Carolina Project

Silverback Solar has designed a unique and cost-effective racking system for a problematic pre-engineered metal building where coupling maximized power generation with prudent engineering was the challenge.

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Zentric Secures $50 Million in Debt Financing to Expand Solar Footprint in North Carolina

We have identified 28.8 MW of Solar Power Plant developments in North Carolina that Zentric plans to build, own and operate in 2012 that we will endeavour to secure funding for and look forward to an ongoing relationship for additional projects in future years.”

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Progress Solar Solutions Adds New U.S. Production Facility for its Line of Progress Solar/Wind Light Towers

Progress Solar Solutions™, LLC is adding an additional Solar Light Tower production facility in Raleigh, NC to meet its growing demand. The Progress Solar™ and Progress Solar/Wind™ Light Towers resemble a traditional portable diesel light plant but are powered up to 100% by free renewable energy instead of diesel fuel. The benefits… NO diesel fuel, [...]

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Greenpeace Activists Erect Banner in front of Duke Energy Headquarters, Charlotte NC

“Duke Energy: no dirty rate hikes. Be a good neighbor.” CHARLOTTE, NC— This week, six North Carolinians built and ascended two 20-ft tall tripods in front of Duke Energy’s headquarters with a banner between them that read “Duke Energy: no dirty rate hikes” wearing t-shirts that said, “Be a good neighbor.” “Duke Energy has gone [...]

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Raleigh North Carolina Convention Center to be Powered By Solar

Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that the 500 kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar array at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina will be Powered by Sunivaâ„¢. The company also announced that its solar modules are powering an electric vehicle (EV) charging station located next [...]

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Mortenson Construction to build 2.4 MW Solar Project in North Carolina

Mortenson Construction announced their selection as EPC contractor by San Francisco-based MP2 Capital, a leading developer, financier and operator of solar facilities throughout North America, to construct the largest photovoltaic (PV) solar array to be built in Scotland County. Located on a 12 acre site in the Sandhills region, the 2.4 megawatt (MW) system is [...]

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Duke Energy Renewables Acquires Three North Carolina Solar Farms

Duke Energy Renewables has acquired three 1-megawatt (MW) commercial solar projects in the southwestern corner of the state. The company now owns seven commercial solar farms in North Carolina. Duke Energy Renewables, part of Duke Energy’s Commercial Businesses, purchased the portfolio of photovoltaic (PV) projects from ESA Renewables, LLC, which designed and built the generation [...]

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Innovative Project Captures Waste Heat from Mill and Converts Thermal Energy into Clean Electricity

KGRA Energy LP, a premier U.S.-based waste heat recovery developer, announced today that civil engineering has begun and equipment delivery continues on an innovative clean energy system being installed at a Greenville, NC area mill owned by Weyerhaeuser Company one of the world’s largest forest products companies. The project, developed by KGRA Energy, in partnership with [...]

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Decentralized Solar Power Would Help Unburden Power Grid from US Heatwave

Sky Power Solutions Corp Responds to Buckles Working to Relive Burden by Providing Decentralized Output to the Grid MOORESVILLE, NC-Sky Power Solutions, Corp , an emerging leader in the development and marketing of next generation lithium-powered batteries worldwide, and a leading developer of the Sky Power stand alone residential, Solar Concentrating, Electric Power Generation System, [...]

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One of 7 Cities will Host World’s Largest Solar Farm

National Solar Power this week  announced the names of seven communities in the southeast U.S. that are in serious contention to be the one chosen by the company as the site for the construction and operation of the world’s largest solar farm. The finalists’ list of communities includes four in Florida, two in Georgia and [...]

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GrowGreen Power, Inc. Poised to Bring 300 plus Jobs to North Carolina

  GrowGreen Power, Inc. (www.growgreenpower.com) today announced, following an intensive nationwide evaluation, it has narrowed the scope of possible locations for its first project to the Piedmont area of North Carolina.

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Bank of America Announces New Goal to Reduce Its Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 15 Percent

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Bank of America this week announced an ambitious new goal to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15 percent from 2011 to 2015, based on its 2010 baseline. This goal spans all of the company’s global operations in more than 40 countries and builds on its previous GHG reduction of 18 percent [...]

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