Ameresco, Inc. has announced a partnership with the city of Englewood, Colorado, has unveiled a new solar initiatives and energy conservation program. Ameresco and Englewood partnership is designed to reduce costs and generate renewable energy for the municipality. This extensive, two-tiered program includes the installation of a solar energy system and an energy conservation program. [...]
REC Opens New Solar Manufacturing Facility In Singapore Norway-based REC has opened an integrated wafer, cell and module manufacturing facility in Tuas, Singapore. The new factory is the largest single investment ever made by REC, the company notes. REC expects initial production volumes of 740 MW for wafers, 550 MW for cells and 590 MW [...]
Nov 7 2010 | Posted in |
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Solar Power International 2010, the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America, broke previous records for exhibitors and exhibit space for the sixth consecutive year. Taking over more than 1 million square feet of total gross space at the Los Angeles Convention Center Oct. 12-14, the sprawling exhibit floors featured 1,122 companies [...]
Oct 31 2010 | Posted in
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SolFocus CPV Solar Systems Installed at U.S.-Mexico Border Region The new solar power project with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) demonstrates the promise of clean power, economic growth and bilateral partnership. SolFocus has installed a 16.8 kilowatt (Kw) installation of high-concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems at the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) BECC offices in [...]
Oct 28 2010 | Posted in
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EPA Administrator Names Executive Director for New Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has named John H. Hankinson, Jr. to be the executive director of the newly established Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. President Obama signed an executive order earlier this month establishing [...]
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AUSTRALIA NEEDS TO LIFT GAME ON CLIMATE ACTION Australia needs to increase its national emission target from five to 15 per cent to meet its fair share of global action on climate change, according to new research from The Australian National University. The study, conducted by Dr Frank Jotzo, Director of the ANU Centre for [...]
Oct 24 2010 | Posted in
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EnviroMission Solar Tower Power Purchase Agreement With SCPPA Up For Approval A Power Purchase Agreement for the sale of electricity from the proposed EnviroMission Arizona Solar Tower development to the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) has been placed on the agenda for approval at the next SCPPA board meeting on October 21, 2010. EnviroMission [...]
NASA Simulates the Sun’s Power on Earth to Test Hardware Intended for Space Testing at the Solar Thermal Test Facility at Marshall Space Flight Center. The Solar Thermal Test Facility’s concentrator mirror is composed of 144 smaller hexagonal segments. When all the mirrors are fully uncovered, the mirror beams about 1,000,000 watts per square meter [...]
Paris – Alstom and BrightSource Energy announced a business partnership agreement to provide solar thermal power plants in particular in the Mediterranean ring and Africa. The agreement brings together Alstom’s experience in the field of turnkey power plants and key power equipment (such as steam turbines) with BrightSource’s Luz Power Powersolar thermal technology. The agreement [...]
Oct 21 2010 | Posted in
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Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ORA), announced today that following the announcement of September 13 ,2010, its subsidiary, Ormat Systems Ltd. (“Ormat”), in accordance with its business partner Solar Millennium AG, has resolved not to submit a bid for the Solar Thermal tender at Ashalim, Israel. This mutually agreed decision is a result of both companies examination [...]
Ameresco, Inc., a leading comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced that the Company has worked with the Massachusetts State Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to sign agreements to design, construct, finance, own, and operate solar power systems on five state facilities. Under 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Ameresco, the state facilities will [...]
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Rovigo PV plant to have 70 MW peak capacity when completed in Q4 2010 SunEdison, a leading worldwide solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, has announced the sale of a 70 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant located in Northeast Italy, near the town of Rovigo. When completed in the fourth [...]
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BRANCHBURG, N.J., Vanguard Energy Partners, a leader in the design and installation of large-scale solar electric systems, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Somerset County Improvement Authority (SCIA) to establish 7.6 megawatts (MW) of energy-producing solar power systems at 31 local and County government locations throughout Somerset County, N.J. It [...]
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