Global investment in clean energy reached a new record of $260bn in 2011, up 5% on 2010 and almost five times the total of $53.6bn in 2004. Investment in solar far outstripped that in wind, and perhaps of most note, US clean energy investment moved back ahead of China for the first time since 2008, [...]
Nautilus Solar Energy (“Nautilus”), a leading independent solar power producer, has executed a financing agreement with De Lage Landen to fund a minimum of $25 million of Nautilus Solar Energy installations across key markets in the United States throughout 2012. The De Lage Landen facility will be used to fund several megawatts of photovoltaic generation [...]
The Solar Engineering & Manufacturing Association (SEMA) announces the agenda for the SEMA Training Course, scheduled to take place Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at Celestica’s facility in Toronto, Canada. The training course will consist of two parts. Part One will provide an outline of manufacturing technology and troubleshooting photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing, and will be instructed [...]
Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, officially launched the Clean Technology Accelerator program in California. Developed and managed by the Canadian Consulate General in San Francisco, the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) program aims to provide qualified Canadian technology companies with access to unique resources and contacts to help them grow on a global scale. [...]
8.5 MW solar park at Thunder Bay Airport Site to commence construction in early 2011 SkyPower, one of Canada’s leading owners and developers of solar parks, announced today that its 8.5 MW project in Thunder Bay will begin construction work on lands within the Thunder Bay International Airport property starting in early 2011. The solar [...]
Canada’s ecoENERGY for Renewal Heat Program is designed to encourage businesses, industries and institutions to install active energy-efficient solar air and/or water heating systems. The ‘ecoENERGY for Renewal Heat Program’ is a four-year, $36 million investment to increase the use of renewable thermal energy by industry, commercial businesses and institutions. Ideally, the program will boost [...]
Cool Energy, Inc., developers of clean energy heat and electrical power generating systems has announced the completion and operation of its third Stirling Engine platform. The engine, called the SolarHeart® Engine converts low temperature heat into electrical power. “We are excited to have achieved this major technology milestone,” said Sam Weaver, CEO and President of [...]
Canada is one of the largest global contributors to green house gases and consequentially global climate change largely due to the Tar Sands project in Alberta. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has commended Canada’s commitment to increase the share of clean energy in electricity supply by 2020. According to GreenPeace International; “The tar sands of [...]
NJR Clean Energy Ventures (NJRCEV), a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today announced an agreement with Adler Development of Edison, NJ to lease space atop four, fully occupied buildings in central New Jersey for rooftop solar systems. The $17 million project, developed with United Solar’s technical expertise, will be capable of generating 3.9 megawatts of [...]
Genesis Solar, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the leading generator of solar and wind power in North America, today announced plans to dry cool its proposed 250-megawatt (MW) solar thermal plant in California’s Sonoran Desert.In evidentiary hearings that begin today before the California Energy Commission (CEC), Genesis Solar plans to formally accept [...]
Ottawa’s Hunt Club Estates is the first townhouse and condo facility in Ottawa to make the switch to solar heating technologies. The Government of Canada’s ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat Program has invested $312,500 to Sustainable Ottawa’s Solar H2Ottawa program which is providing over $26,000 to Hunt Club Estates’ solar thermal system project. The first phase [...]
The case for the global adoption of clean energy becomes stronger everyday not only in the daily headlines about the worst man-made environmental disaster possibly of all time but in the effects of global warming. A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that [...]
As BP’s oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, G20 heads of state, due to meet in Toronto this weekend, are planning to dilute last year’s commitment to phase out subsidies to Big Oil and Big Coal, according a copy of the draft statement seen by the environmental groups, Greenpeace and Oil Change [...]
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