WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the one year anniversary of the Obama Administration’s Startup America Initiative, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) is kicking off a second year of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator,” a program that allows startup companies to license groundbreaking technologies developed by DOE’s 17 national [...]
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 [...]
The Center for Applied Innovation, a Chicago based 501(C)3 non-profit organization, announced today a collaboration with Solar Sister, a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-enterprise businesses, providing much needed household income for women, and much needed light for their respective communities. This collaboration has resulted in the creation [...]
Audio recorded during an American Petroleum Institute (API) commercial shoot reveals how the oil industry plans to stage citizen support for its agenda to influence the 2012 elections. The ads, which API officials said will launch in January and air during CNN’s election coverage, aim to demonstrate authentic citizen support for the oil industry’s agenda. [...]
IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced plans to install solar energy panels on five more of its United States locations – all of them in the Midwestern U.S. Pending governmental permits, installation can begin this Winter, with completion expected in Summer 2012. Implementation of these projects will extend the IKEA solar presence [...]
Helping to meet California’s environmental goals, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) added more than 220 megawatts of clean wind and solar power to its generation mix in 2011 and signed contracts for future delivery of 463 megawatts of new renewable power, enough to serve tens of thousands of customers, the company said today. “Our [...]
In Unique Move, Sierra Club Sponsors Clean Energy Match-Ups at Indiana and Kentucky Bloomington, IN – As college basketball season heats up, the nation’s largest grassroots environmental organization is getting in on the action sponsoring major conference games at Indiana University on January 12 and the University of Kentucky January 17. The Sierra Club Clean [...]
Canadian Solar Inc, one of the world’s largest solar companies, and the Ningxia Electric Power Group has announced the successful completion and grid-connection of a 10 MW ground mounted solar project, a part of a 50MW solar plant, in Hongsibao, Ningxia, in northwest China at the end of 2011. This 10 MW project consists of an [...]
Johnson Controls, the global leader in delivering solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings, and the U.S. Army today announced a federal contract for a solar energy installation and other energy efficiency improvements at Fort Bliss. The nearly $16 million project, executed through the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Ala., is expected [...]
CHICAGO. -The Clean Energy Trust is excited to announce the semifinalists in its inaugural Clean Energy Student Challenge. A distinguished panel of independent evaluators selected student-led companies from eight states to compete for $50,000 in state prizes and the $100,000 grand prize, provided by the Department of Energy. Applications from eight states were submitted in [...]
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power. According to the UN, over 600 million Africans currently do not have access to electric power. A [...]
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 [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
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Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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