Vacuum Processing for Solar Cells
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffEquipment for making wafer-based silicon solar cells reports throughput not in hundreds, but in thousands of wafers/hour. Equipment for deposition of amorphous silicon must accommodate substrates as large as 5.7 square meters. Though the processes used in solar cell manufacturing ...
Clear Skies Signs US $5.7M Deal in Greece
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffClear Skies Solar Inc. announced that it has signed a US $5.7 million agreement with Achilles Chondronasios & Co. to develop and construct a 960-kilowatt solar power project in Larissa, Greece. This marks the company's second signed agreement in Greece ...
Milbank Closes Financing on 100-MW Mount Storm Wind Project
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced that despite the ongoing turmoil in the global financial markets construction and term financing of the 100-megawatt (MW) Phase II Mount Storm wind project closed on September 26. The firm represented the joint ...
We Energies Applies To Build 207-MW Columbia County Wind Project
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWe Energies filed an application with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) for authorization to build the 207-megawatt (MW) Glacier Hills Wind Park. The proposed wind park would be located in the towns of Randolph and Scott in northeast ...
1-MW Solar System Planned for Western North Carolina
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThree Carolinas companies have partnered to bring the first large-scale solar energy project to Western North Carolina. The 1-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array is expected to produce more than 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity over the course of a ...
Goodhue Wind To Develop 78-MW Community Wind Project
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffNational Wind LLC has announced the formation of Goodhue Wind LLC, a community wind development company in Goodhue County, Minnesota. National Wind, the project's manager, helped capitalize Goodhue Wind alongside local Goodhue County investors. Goodhue Wind intends to develop a ...
Trans-India Acquisition Corporation to Merge with Solar Semiconductor
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffTrans-India Acquisition Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire at least 80% of privately held Solar Semiconductor Ltd. The company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and has subsidiaries in the United States and India.
Moving Beyond Sustainability to Environmental Effectiveness
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThe task at hand -- to create a new reality; a new way of living with fewer resources while providing a prosperous life for every member of our growing population -- is going to require more ...
Pop!Tech: Rice Power to the People With Husk Power Systems
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Social Entrepreneurship | Comments OffChip Ransler is the co-founder of Husk Power Systems (HPS), a for-profit company that cost-effectively converts rice husks into electricity. HPS utilizes a proprietary technology to run 35-100 kilowatt mini power plants, delivering pay-for-use electricity to ...
Jennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments OffFor the past decade or so, there’s been a movement to bring computers, telephones and other “information and communication technology” into developing nations to increase economic development and eliminate poverty. Those of us involved with this ...
Clean-tech fundings: Intel in China, ice-powered air conditioners
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Green news harvest: Google’s energy ambitions, clean-tech snags
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Success In Green Power Marketing Earns 3Degrees and Its Customers Nation’s Top Honor
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday that 3Degrees would be recognized during the Green Power Leadership Awards for their commitment to programs that allow consumers and businesses to purchase clean and green energy options, while also integrating ...
Green Career Conference
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffImagining a silver lining in gloomy news such as that released by the United Nations labor agency recently – announcing that the global economic downturn would likely cost 20 million people their jobs – is a bit difficult. But when ...
New Method Turns Wood into Sugar for Biofuels
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA new method of producing high efficiency and easily available biofuels from wood, grass and plants could soon be available, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Germany.
Cascade Launches SWIFT Wind Turbine System for Commercial and Residential Use
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffCascade Engineering has officially made its SWIFT Wind Turbine available in the United States and Canada. The SWIFT system could provide businesses and homeowners in windy environments an effective solution to lower energy bills and reduce carbon emissions, the company ...
HelioVolt Opens Thin-film Solar Factory
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffHelioVolt Corporation has opened its first factory for manufacturing thin-film solar energy products. The 122,400 square-foot facility in Austin, Texas is expected to create approximately 160 new jobs and will have an initial capacity of 20 megawatts.
Gemma Renewable Power Proceeds on US $50M Wind Contract
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffGemma Power Systems announced that its joint venture entity Gemma Renewable Power LLC, has received an Initial Limited Notice to Proceed on a US $50 million contract to design and build the expansion of a wind farm in LaSalle County, ...
Solar EnerTech Completes 25-MW Cell Line
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar EnerTech Corp. announced that it recently completed the build out of its second solar cell production line. The new 25-megawatt (MW) line is located at the company's solar cell manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.
Finavera Renewables Responds to CPUC Denial of Wave Energy PPA
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has denied Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) application for a 2-megawatt power purchase agreement (PPA) the utility had signed with Finavera Renewables for a wave power project in Humboldt County, California. The decision was ...