Southborough, MA – January 2013 – Baker Solar, a division of M.E. Baker, announces that its new Web site is now available. The new site, located at www.bakersolarinc.com, is an informative, user-friendly resource for current and prospective customers. The online resource now provides extensive background information about the company including its history, an overview of [...]
OneRoof Energy, the first U.S. residential solar leasing company to work directly with roofers to sell and install its systems, has secured $3 million in additional financing from clean-tech investment firm Black Coral Capital. The company will utilize the funds to expand current markets and launch new markets this year. Black Coral Capital backs innovative [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
HONOLULU. Â 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: [...]
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 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 [...]
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.