Now’s the Time to Benefit from Green Tax Incentives
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThere is one month left in 2009, which leaves you plenty of time to take advantage of the green tax incentives available to consumers. While some of these tax credits or deductions have been available for several years, many were ...
Pedal-powered Christmas tree lights Copenhagen
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Eco City Proves Waste Management Can Reverse Greenhouse Trend
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffCities can progress from consuming energy and emitting greenhouse gases (GHG) to actually producing energy while saving on GHG emissions, due to substitution of fossil fuels elsewhere. These findings are based on research in the city of Aalborg in Northern ...
Underground data center to help heat Helsinki
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SolarCraft Mourns Loss of VP Sales & Marketing
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffIt is with great sadness that we note the passing of John Maloney, SolarCraft's Vice President of Sales and Marketing, his wife Susan, and young children Gracie and Aiden, who were tragically killed in a traffic accident over the ...
Oyster Wave Energy Converter Begins Producing Power
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffQueen's University Belfast earlier this month launched the Oyster wave energy converter, the world's largest working wave-energy system, in Scotland's Orkney Islands.
IDB Loan Approved for 80-MW Hydro Project in Bolivia
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBolivia will receive US$106 million in loans from the Inter-American Development Bank to finance the construction of the 80-MW Misicuni hydroelectric project.
At COP15, 16 National Associations Say Major Hydrogen Programs Can Reduce Climate Change
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffToday, a coalition of 16 associations from around the world issued a joint statement to underscore how hydrogen technologies can help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. The statement, addressed to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations ...
Hydroelectric Projects Win LIHI Certification
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Governing Board of the Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) has granted low-impact certification to hydroelectric projects in Vermont, Oregon, and New Hampshire.
Leading Washington attorney Sheila Hollis to Discuss Politics of Climate Change at Dec. 9th “Green Salon”
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe December 9th Green Salon is saving the best for last. We are privileged to have a leading Washington DC attorney, Sheila Hollis, present on the US climate change legislation at the time of the Copenhagen climate conference. ...
Opportunities Under DOE’s Financial Institutions Partnership Program
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLast month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a solicitation for one of the most eagerly anticipated Recovery Act energy programs: loan guarantees for renewable energy projects that use commercial technologies. Unlike earlier DOE loan guarantee programs ...
SolarCity & US Bancorp Find New Ways to Finance Solar Projects
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAs the credit crunch was starting to loosen earlier this year, one of the first glimmers of hope came from the solar energy space. In June, SolarCity and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC) formed a partnership to finance ...
Conergy & Sanyo To Install 1.1-MW Solar System for Aqua Pennsylvania
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffConergy and Sanyo announced that they are collaborating on a 1.1-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic system that will be installed at a sedimentation basin owned by Aqua Pennsylvania Inc. The project, which is expected to save Aqua US $77,000 a year ...
Clipper Supplies 67 MW of Wind Turbines for Mexican Project
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffClipper Windpower Inc. is in the process of exporting 27 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to Mexico, backed by a US $80.66 million direct loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). It is the first export of ...
Toshiba Wins 7-MW Solar PV System Contract
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffToshiba Corporation has won a contract to develop a 7-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) generation project for Japanese utility, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Toshiba's systems will be installed in the Ukishima Solar Power Plant in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture.
OU Spirit Wind Agreement Approved By OCC
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffOG&E announced that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved the 101-megawatt (MW) OU Spirit wind farm project. The Commission order approved the agreement which also assigns to OG&E's customers the proceeds from the sales of the wind farm's renewable energy ...
Sovello Receives 49-MW Module Order
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar system integrator Mp-tec GmbH & Co. KG has signed a cooperation contract with Thalheim-based module manufacturer Sovello AG for the purchase of close to 250,000 PV modules. The peak power output of the modules is 49 megawatts (MW).
Enthusiasm and Challenges Highlight National Green Workforce Education Conference
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffMore than 500 participants from across the U.S. and Europe packed plenary and breakout sessions at the third New Ideas in Educating a Workforce in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Conference, November 19-20 in New York's capital city. National ...
Crews Begin Hanging Panels on Largest Solar Array in Martin County
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffCrews from Abundant Energy Inc. began hanging solar panels on the largest privately owned solar panel array in Martin County and quite possibly the largest to date in all of South Florida. The solar energy array will be used ...
Major Health Benefits Seen From Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSlashing carbon dioxide emissions has the added benefit of significantly reducing air pollution and could prevent millions of premature deaths each year, according to a series of studies in the British medical journal, The Lancet. ...