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Archive for April, 2008

Spire Corporation to Announce First-Quarter Financial Results on May 13

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Bedford, MA – May 1, 2008 – Spire Corporation, (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that the Company will host its first-quarter 2008 conference call on ...

Biofuels: the Good, the Bad and the Unusual

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Within recent months biofuels have gone from making headline news as being the world's salvation for when the oil runs out to becoming a "crime against humanity." Almost every day the world's media run a story on the topic, often ...

Two Energy-Related Conferences Co-Locate for 2008

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Two premier conferences dealing with specific areas of the offshore energy industry are co-locating in Galveston this year. The events take place at the Galveston Island Convention Center on June 24-26, 2008.

State Solar Debate: Will SRECs Create Unhealthy Market Concentration?

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A growing divide is occurring within the solar industry over how best to incentivize state-level solar programs. At issue is the role that solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs) should play in each market and what their impact will be on ...

CleanTech Biofuels Teams with Green Tech

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CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. announced that it has entered into a Joint Research Agreement with Green Tech America, Inc. (GTA) under which GTA will provide research and testing for CleanTech Biofuels on the fermentation stage of CleanTech's municipal solid waste to ...

Solectria Delivers 1.2-MW of Inverters to Sierra Nevada Brewing

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Solectria Renewables has announced the installation of more than 1.2 megawatts (MW) of its solar inverters at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., located in Chico, California.

PPL to Expand Hydropower in Maine

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A PPL Corporation subsidiary will renovate and recommission its Orono, Maine hydroelectric plant, adding 20,000 megawatt-hours of electricity to the region's power supplies per year. Construction work at Orono will begin soon, and the plant's generators are expected to be ...

Waste Management & Linde to Develop Landfill Gas Facility

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Waste Management and Linde North America announced a joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California to convert landfill gas into vehicle fuel. The companies will partner to install systems ...

Sunovia Closes US $12 Million Equity Round

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Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that it has completed its mezzanine round of financing. The company has raised a total of US $12 million, and continues to allocate proceeds to the development of its scalable Cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell ...

Homeowners Face Fight Over Wind Turbines

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City Pushes for Solar Water Heaters

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Green Giants: The World’s Biggest Clean-Energy Projects

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IBM aims to lighten the (energy) load at data centers

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Personal, ‘green’ airplanes propel forward

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Politicos ponder new action against e-waste

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First Solar aiming at $1 billion in revenue this year

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McKinsey: servers need a MPG-like energy rating

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Letter from the Chairman & CEO

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Radically new technology that eliminates the need for fossil fuels is one of the few alternatives that might help to prevent a cataclysm. MPI has been developing a revolutionary breakthrough that will make it possible to generate electricity 24/7 without ...

SolCool One, LLC and Senergy Cooling Systems Deliver First DC Millennia HVAC to Titusville, Florida

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

SolCool One, LLC and its manufacturing partner, Senergy Cooling Systems, delivered the first Millennia direct current air conditioning/heating system to Advanced Cooling Distributors, LLC, the wholesale distribution HUB for the Millennia in Central Florida.

First Solar, Inc. Announces 2008 First Quarter Financial Results

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