First Solar, Inc. Announces 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffInterstate Transmission Superhighways: Paving the Way to a Low-carbon Future
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffImagine, for a moment, that today's Interstate superhighway system did not exist. Coast-to-coast delivery time for all sorts of goods we take for granted, from automobiles to asparagus, would take much longer and cost substantially more. Some goods ...
Suntech & Enel Sign 30-MW Supply Deal
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSuntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced it has signed a two-year agreement with Enel.si, a subsidiary of Enel, to supply 30 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in late 2008 and 2009.
REpower Installs 5-MW Wind Energy Turbine at Thornton Bank
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffREpower Systems AG has successfully installed the first of six wind energy turbines for the Belgian offshore wind farm Thornton Bank. The project, located about 30 kilometers off the coast, is the first Belgian offshore wind farm. For the first ...
Intel Capital Invests US $12.5M in Voltaix
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffVoltaix, a provider of materials that enhance the performance of semiconductor chips and solar cells, announced that it has received US $12.5 million in financing from Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation. The company said that ...
BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment of DOE Grant Funds
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of the BlueFire Mecca LLC plant in Southern California. Upon completion, the plant will produce approximately 17 million gallons ...
VIDEO: Interview with Gaetan Borgers of Dow Corning
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRenewableEnergyWorld.com talked with Gaetan Borgers, Director of Dow Corning Solar Solutions at Intersolar North America in San Francisco, California.
Spire Enters Multi-Year Contract with Trina Solar
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBEDFORD, MA – July 30, 2008 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules worldwide, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to ...
Inside WCI: State Carbon Budgets
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffHow to hand out allowance money. By Eric de Place for the Sightline Institute's Daily Score blog. This is the second in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the ...
Visualizing Social Networks… in Excel
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffIn the spirit of attending OPCs - “other people’s conferences”, conferences where you’re invited, but not part of the demographic/professional group the conference is aimed at - I’m now at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. ...
Old homes get smart
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffSmart metering is coming. Within a decade, you’ll know exactly how much every flip of a switch or turn of a knob costs in monthly utility charges. By Adam Stein The Times profiles two British seaside towns on ...
ISEA 2008: Sourcing Water, Gendered Loitering
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffBorn 20 years ago, ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art has the objective of discussing and showcasing creative productions that apply new technologies in interactive and digital media. While i'm spending my last hours in ...
LED maker Lamina acquired by Lighting Science
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Changing the World One Block at a Time
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffThe neighborhood is a powerful--but often overlooked--tool for social improvement. By Jay Walljasper Tuesday August 5 is National Night Out, a red-letter day in thousands of towns and cities around the country. Up to 30 million people will ...
Inside WCI: Scope
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffWhat's in, what's out, and what's wrong. By Eric de Place for Sightline's Daily Score. Last week when the Western Climate Initiative's latest draft appeared it mystified most folks who aren't insiders to the process. That's a shame because ...
Tendril: Smart grid meets Zigbee home networks
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One-third of China’s carbon emissions tied to exports
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Green news harvest: Trash-to-electricity, a Sahara-to-EU ’supergrid’
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