It is now possible to have locally grown tomatoes in northern Nevada — in January. This has been proven by the partnership of SunScience Corporation (SSC) and the DoubleTree Ranch (DTR) research facility in Lovelock, NV. Together they launched a Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA) project using SSC’s Energy Management System (EMS) and DTR’s greenhouse farming operations. [...]
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Southwest Solar Technologies Inc. announced today its development program for a solar thermal technology that will serve industrial needs for process heat and steam. The solar thermal application leverages the Company’s solar dish and other core competencies and will be a new addition to its product portfolio. Industrial heat accounts for a very large share [...]
Solyndra and other troubled, taxpayer-funded solar electric companies might have momentarily derailed the green movement’s progress this year, but a solar hot air collector will be working wonders at Sanborn Regional High School. Installed this month and funded by the world’s first power purchase agreement (PPA) for ultra-efficient solar hot air, Sanborn’s fuel-oil heating bills [...]
FREMONT, Calif. and MUSCAT, Oman Building on the launch of its solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project with Berry Petroleum earlier this year, GlassPoint Solar announced today the award of a contract to build a 7 MW solar EOR system for Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the national oil company of Oman. PDO, the largest producer [...]
Southwest Solar Completes Proof of Concept Testing of Solar-Turbine Receiver Southwest Solar Technologies Inc. announced recently the successful on-sun testing and proof of concept of a high temperature air receiver. The high temperature air receiver is a prototype test component to validate the design for the advanced solar-turbine power system being developed by the Company. [...]
Washington, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Dr. Francis Eberle, Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), today to announce the launch of a new energy education initiative: America’s Home Energy Education Challenge.
SACRAMENTO – The California Energy Commission today awarded $2,872,755 for four research projects. The research areas include renewable energy, climate change, and the safety of natural gas pipelines. Funds for the projects come from the Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.
At SENER ,the engineering and technology group is making sustainable advances in thermal storage such as a single-tank system and a graphite storage system. At present SENER has a portfolio of 19 solar plants in which it has provided its solar technology, most of them count with the molten salt storage system developed by SENER, including [...]
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass. — BTU International today announced the shipment of the 3000th thermal processing system from its manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China. BTU opened the facility in China in February of 2004. Located in the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in Pudong, China, the plant has been expanded a number of times since opening. In [...]
PowerVerde enters into a distribution/manufacturing agreement with Newton Investments BV of the Netherlands, to distribute and manufacture their 50Kw renewable energy system.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-EGPI Firecreek, Inc. (OTCBB: EFIR) is pleased to announce that their latest acquisition candidate Arctic Solar Engineering, LLC. (“ASE”) has received a new purchase order for the Sheet Metal Workers Union based out of St. Louis, Missouri.
Sopogy, Inc., a leading developer of reliable and cost-effective micro concentrated solar power(MicroCSP) technologies, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yu Hao Long (YHL) Corporation, the developer of a patented Stirling energy generator for the installation of a 200MW concentrating solar plant for the China National Utility. The MOU also formalized a goal to [...]
Chromasun and Australian Research Partners Win $3.2 Million Grant From Australian Solar Institute to Develop Next Generation Solar Hybrid System Industrial rooftop solar solutions company Chromasun today announced that it has partnered with a number of leading Australian research institutions to win a $3.2 million applied research grant from the Australian Solar Institute (ASI). This [...]
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