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Archive for May, 2009

Efficient computer maker SiCortex runs out of juice

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Trilliant buys broadband wireless for smart grid

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China/Clean Technologies – one of the best ways out of the financial crisis

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Prism Solar Technologies (PST) releases real-time test of solar module’s power enhancement capability.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

SPG Solar Completes First of Seven Solar Projects for the City of Tucson

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

SPG Solar, Inc., recently completed the first of seven solar projects for the City Tucson. On Friday, May 29, 10 a.m., the City of Tucson will hold a dedication ceremony at the El Pueblo Activity Center, 101 West Irvington, ...

Electric Utilities Rise to Meet Solar Call-to-Action

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

As financial markets deteriorated in October 2008, Solar Electric Power Association Executive Director Julia Hamm challenged the solar and utility industries to deploy solar power on a massive scale despite new economic barriers. She issued the challenge in ...

SEPA Unveils Its Top Ten Utility Rankings for 2008

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) today released its second annual ranking on utility solar integration for 2008, a report that captures information on solar technologies including photovoltaic and concentrating solar power, on both the customer and utility sides of ...

KYOCERA Solar Modules Help Power Morristown, N.J., Wastewater Treatment Plant to be Inaugurated Today

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The Morristown, N.J., Wastewater Treatment Facility will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, Thursday, May 28, 2009 for its new solar electric generating system –the town's first publicly owned system – amid an audience of elected officials, local dignitaries and ...

Can the US Afford Cap-and-Trade?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Many Americans are fearful that if we reduce our carbon footprint, we will compromise our quality of life. This fear, however, is unfounded as evidence from around the United States demonstrates. U.S. states vary only modestly in average incomes, ...

Owens Corning Installs Largest SolarWall® System of 2008

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a world leader in building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, today announced that it has installed North America's largest* SolarWall® system of 2008 at the company's Toronto area insulation manufacturing facility. The use of the ...

SolarWall Technology Takes Ontario by Storm

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

In the past two weeks, two separate installations of Conserval Engineering's SolarWall systems have broken records.

Ascent Modules Powering UAV

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. says its flexible CIGS thin-film photovoltaic modules will be designed into the development of a hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (H-UAV) called the Silent Sentinel being developed by Bye Aerospace, Inc.

Boston Logan In Solar Garage Plans

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) has approved US$55.7 million of funding to rehabilitate the Terminal B parking garage at Boston Logan International Airport. The project includes the installation of photovoltaic solar panels on the garage roof and the replacement of ...

Lunar Underwater Turbine In Grid Trial

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Tidal power company Lunar Energy has announced a successful milestone trial of the submersible Rotech Tidal Turbine (RTT) technology.

AMSC In New Indian Licensing Deal

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

American Superconductor Corporation subsidiary AMSC Windtec has licensed its proprietary 2 MW doubly-fed induction wind turbine design to Inox Wind Limited, part of India's Inox Group of Companies.

BP & SolarEdge Collaborate on PV Module-integrated Power Harvesting System

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

BP Solar and SolarEdge announced that they have formed a joint agreement to explore commercialization of a photovoltaic (PV) module-integrated power harvesting system embedded directly into BP Solar modules.

Obama Announces US $467M in Stimulus Funding for Geothermal and Solar Energy Projects

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

President Barack Obama announced that more than US $467 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act could be used to expand development, deployment and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the United States.

China Puts Its Faith In Solar Power With Huge Renewable Energy Investment

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Off

By Jonathan Watts By 2020, Chinese government is committed to raising the share of ­renewable energy ­in the energy mix to 6%. China is to throw its economic might behind a national solar power plan that could result ...

US Unveils $4bn Plan To Upgrade Public Housing As Part Of Green Jobs Project

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments Off

By Suzanne Goldenberg Renovation scheme will replace windows, insulation and light bulbs in ageing and neglected low-income housing stock. The Obama administration unveiled a $4bn (£2.5bn) plan to upgrade public housing for low-income Americans today, as part of ...

Cities Have Smaller Carbon Footprints

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments Off

By Roger Valdez The Center for Neighborhood Technology has made a new addition to its Housing + Transportation Affordability Index website that maps carbon dioxide emissions. The press release announces that “Urban Living Helps Curb Global Warming” ...