Solar Industry Analyst Supports CASM Position on Chinese Trade Practices

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(BUSINESSWIRE) -The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM), supported by more than 150 U.S. employers of more than 11,000 workers, today applauded an analysis by Hari Chandra Polavarapu, managing director of solar and clean-technology research for brokerage firm Auriga USA, that underscores the importance of holding China accountable to international trade law. Polavarapu’s target is [...]

World Bank Supports Morocco’s Bold Plans for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plants

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The World Bank this week  approved $297 million in loans to Morocco to help finance the Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project, taking a historic step toward realizing one of the first large-scale plants of this kind in North Africa to exploit the region’s vast solar energy resources. With this approval from the Bank’s Board [...]

ARPA-E Announces 2012 Energy Innovation Summit Featuring Bill Gates

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) will hold its third annual Energy Innovation Summit from February 27–29, 2012 at the Gaylord Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C. Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft; Susan Hockfield, president and professor of neuroscience at MIT; Lee Scott, former CEO of Wal-Mart; [...]

World Bank Supports South Africa’s Concentrated Solar Energy Plans

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Pilot efforts will mark first transformational solar and wind power projects in Africa The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved $250 million in funding for the Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project (ERSP) to help implement the pioneering and innovative Upington concentrating solar power and Sere wind power plants in South Africa. The US$250 [...]

Canadian Clean Energy Businesses Initiative Announced

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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. [...]

Clean Energy Innovation Competition for Massachusetts College Students

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This fall, Mass Energy Lab will sponsor the Seek Energy Innovation Competition, a contest intended to encourage students to research and identify cutting-edge, new to market energy efficiency solutions and to think deeply about how the technology can be applied to facilitate the reduction of energy waste in commercial and industrial buildings. The contest directly [...]

PortaTechLA Joins National Association of Clean Energy Business Incubators

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GOLDEN, CO–Clean Energy Alliance, Inc. (CEA), the national association of clean energy business incubators, announced that PortTechLA, a technology center and business incubator adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, has become the 24th member of CEA. “PortTechLA’s decision to join the Clean Energy Alliance represents a reinforcement of the value proposition that interaction among [...]

The Defense Energy Technology Challenge for Companies Developing Defense Targeted Energy Solutions

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HONOLULU.  In conjunction with the Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit on September 13, 2011, the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) is hosting a defense-focused challenge — the Defense Energy Technology Challenge. The program, based on CTSI’s annual Utility Technology Challenge, is designed to pair companies developing defense targeted energy solutions with partners, including: [...]

The World’s First Self-recharging Fuel Cell System for Backup Power

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Electro Power Systems SpA is officially launching in India ElectroSelf, the world’s first entirely self-recharging fuel cell system for backup power at India Telecom, New Delhi (stand in hall 14). A preview of ElectroSelf was presented in February 2010 at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona and, after being successfully trialed in Europe, Americas and [...]

Cinco Solar Wins City Of San Antonio 2010 Green Building Award For Solar Technology

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 Cinco Solar has been honored as the recipient of the Bill Sinkin Solar Technology Award, in recognition of the outstanding solar thermal system the company installed at the Army Residence Community (ARC) in San Antonio. As one of the City of San Antonio 2010 Green Building Awards, the Bill Sinkin Solar Technology Award recognizes extraordinary [...]

Remarkable Increase in Solar Energy Demand Anticipated Over the Next Three Years

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Worldwide Energy & Manufacturing USA, Inc., a rapidly growing international supplier of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, announced today that it anticipates strong demand for its photovoltaic (PV) modules based on the continued shift to alternative energy sources such as solar.

Micro Concentrated Solar Power with Thermal Storage. Clean Technology Born in Hawaii

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Sopogy, Inc., a leader in micro Concentrated Solar Power (MicroCSP(TM)) technology, will be supplying its proprietary solar thermal collectors for a five-megawatt MicroCSP plant, which broke ground on October 27 in the Kalaeloa district of Oahu — marking the largest CSP project in Hawaii. The Kalaeloa Solar One project is a partnership between the State [...]

Research Center will Identify Solar Power, Solar Air-Conditioning and Building Efficient Technologies – Chevron

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To follow up on an article that we wrote yesterday about the growing relationship between oil companies and the solar energy industry we bring your attention to another oil giant , namely Chevron. Chevron Qatar Energy Technology, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation, and GreenGulf Inc.), a Qatar-based renewable energy and clean technology company, this year [...]

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