Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, announced that its panels will soon be helping to meet more than 75 percent of the electric needs of Bonnie Brae’s campus in Bernards Township, NJ. Bonnie Brae is one of the nation’s preeminent therapeutic learning environments for at-risk adolescent boys. “This [...]
Pilot Project Will Help Maintain Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs as More Renewable Energy is Added to Island Grids Honeywell has announced a pilot program with Hawaiian Electric Co. in Honolulu to demonstrate how demand response technology can help integrate more intermittent renewable energy to the electric grid. During the two-year pilot, the utility will [...]
SPI Solar, a leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) solar developer and engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) services provider, announced today that it has been awarded an EPC contract by Seashore Solar Development, LLC (“Seashore Solar”), a New Jersey-based solar development company. As EPC contractor, SPI will design, engineer and construct an 11.3 megawatt fixed ground [...]
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Concentrated Solar Power Market Trends, Policy Landscape, Technology Drivers, Competitive Threats, and Global Forecasts Concentrated solar power (CSP) has been a “start-stop” industry since the 1500s, when Leonardo da Vinci conceived the use of a parabolic mirror concentrator to heat water for [...]
Boulder Colorado—Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. Coal, natural gas, and climate: Shifting from coal to natural gas would have limited impacts on climate, new research indicates. If methane [...]
EIA reports a 3.9-percent increase in U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels were 5,638 million metric tons carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2010, an increase of 3.9 percent from the 2009 level, according to Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010, an online analysis released today by [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is accepting applications for a total of up to $74 million to support the research and development of clean, reliable fuel cells for stationary and transportation applications. The solicitations include up to $65 million over three years to fund continued research and development (R&D) on fuel cell [...]
 Ditlev Engel, President and CEO of Vestas Wind Systems A/S and convener of the working group for creating green jobs, is asking every G20 Head of State for a date – one hour in their calendar over the coming months. Mr Engel and working group colleagues offer to personally present tailor-made recommendations specific to each [...]
Envision Solar Unveils CleanCharge™ Electric Vehicle Charging Station during GM’s “Volt Unplugged†U.S. Tour in San Diego Envision Solar International, Inc., a leading sustainable infrastructure designer and developer, is announcing the unveiling of its new CleanCharge™ solar-powered electric vehicle charging station integrated into EnvisionTrak™ tracking Solar Trees®. Envision Solar displayed its single vehicle CleanCharge charging [...]
Siemens to present solutions for sustainable power supply at the World Energy Congress 2010 Siemens has announced their intentions to again take part in the World Energy Congress (WEC), held from September 12 to 16, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. This event, which takes place every three years, has become a key gathering point for the [...]
“For several years, the IEA has been calling for an energy revolution to tackle climate change and enhance energy security and economic development. For the first time, we see early indications that such a revolution is under way,†said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Presenting the new IEA study Energy [...]
At the end of June the participants of the 4th Concentrated Solar Power Conference in San Francisco voted for HelioTrough, the Solar Millennium Group’s newest collector generation, for the award in the “CPS Innovation” category. The HelioTrough collector, which was developed by Flagsol GmbH, the joint venture between Solar Millennium AG and Ferrostaal AG, together [...]
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