NYC green building program launches
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe latest green building program in NYC aims to train 1,000 building superintendents in one year.
Solar installer rents rooftops to make megawatts
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Greening the home–from low effort to high tech
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Southwest Windpower’s Air X Wind Turbine Featured in New Book
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAir X, a small wind turbine by Southwest Windpower, is included in this groundbreaking book about products that improve the lives of people around the globe. Air X is part of Southwest Windpower's AIR series of turbines, which are ...
Spire to Present at Solar/PV Manufacturing Market Outlook Discussion at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSpire Enters into Commercial Agreements with Korea’s Uni-CHEM
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffGeothermal Power Could Top 10 Gigawatts, New Industry Report Shows
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA new report by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) shows strong growth in new geothermal power projects continuing through 2009. U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development Update, September 2009 identifies 144 new geothermal projects under development in fourteen ...
Solar Energy Procurement Options for Utilities
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffQ: What kind of procurement options does a utility have for acquiring solar power projects?
Liberia Converting Old Rubber Trees to Electricity
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffWork begins this month on a new, environmentally-friendly power plant in Liberia that will use old rubber trees to generate electricity. It is part of a plan to make Liberia the world's first sustainable biomass-driven economy.
SolarCity and U.S. Bank Expand Solar Project Fund to US $100M
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolarCity and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC) have doubled the size of their fund to finance solar projects. The fund, originally announced in June, will be expanded to finance US $100 million in solar projects in 2009.
AMAT Awarded Multi-Year Service Contract from ENN Solar
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffApplied Materials Inc. has signed a five-year contract with ENN Solar Energy Co. Ltd. to support ENN's solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing facility in Langfang, China, which features an Applied SunFab Thin Film Line.
Chemrec Gets US $73M for Biofuel Project
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Swedish Energy R&D Board will provide an investment grant for industrial scale demonstration of Chemrec's technology for the production of BioDME and Biomethanol motor fuels . The plant will be built at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. ...
RoseStreet Labs Demonstrates Tandem Nitride/Silicon Solar Cell
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRoseStreet Labs Energy Inc. (RSLE) said that it has demonstrated the first known gallium-nitride/silicon tandem solar cell. Utilizing the same nitride material technology as solid state lighting and blue lasers, RSLE fabricated and tested a working photovoltaic cell that couples ...
DOE Awards Poet US $6.85M for Cellulosic Technology
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPoet's ambitious goal of securing 700 tons of cellulosic biomass per day got a big boost this week from a US $6.85 million funding increase to an existing grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
SolFocus To Develop 8.5-MW of CPV Projects
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolFocus, in partnership with Dreen Europe, has reached an agreement with Portuguese utility Águas de Portugal (ADP) for the installation of 8.5 megawatts (MW) of its concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology at the utility's facilities.
Schott Extends PV Guarantee to 30 years
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar energy group Schott Solar AG has announced that it is extending guarantee conditions for photovoltaic modules, offering a 25-year performance guarantee on glass-foil modules and a 30-year guarantee on double glass modules.
RWE npower renewables In Biomass Plant Deal
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA new 50 MW biomass-fuelled co-generation plant is to be developed for papermaker Tullis Russell to supply its paper mill at Markinch, in Fife, Scotland, with heat and power.
Cruel Weather, Arab Middle East Film Festival
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffImage from Slingshot Hip Hop I normally don't blog about events i can't attend but some cultural initiatives call for exceptions. Cruel Weather. Arab Middle East Film Festival is a festival of recent film/video from the ...
What If Climate Action Actually Accelerates Economic Growth?
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffEconomics is not my strong suit, but I'm trying to wrap my brains around the economic discussion of climate action, and where it's gone wrong, since it increasingly seems to me that there's a strong argument ...
‘Bacteria batteries’ For Energy Storage: Methane Technology Mimics Chemical Process Found in Marshes
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Offby Ed Gould A breakthrough in battery technology, which combines waste carbon dioxide with tiny microbes, could help provide an answer to intermittent wind power. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University are pioneering a method whereby electrical energy ...