Monday, November 3rd, 2008
L.A. Southwest College 4-MW PV Project, California
L.A. Southwest College's new 4-MW solar project, which was designed and constructed by Chevron Energy Solutions, marks another milestone in the Los Angeles Community College District's efforts to make its colleges carbon neutral through its Renewable Energy Plan.
SolFocus Agreement with EMPE Solar
SolFocus ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
The Human Pump
Gunwook Nam, an innovative designer from Seoul, South Korea, recently received one of three awards from San Francisco’s Urban Re:Vision for his innovative "Human Pump" design featured above. The design uses human foot traffic to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
R&D Magazine has awarded two of its annual breakthrough invention awards to solar energy technologies developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
The first is an ultra-light, highly efficient solar cell called the Inverted Metamorphic Multi-Junction solar cell. The second is a process that uses ink-jet printing to ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Satcon Technology, a leading provider of utility scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, today announced that it has partnered with FuelCell Energy Inc. and Enbridge in the production of a new, multi-megawatt hybrid energy system for natural gas pipeline operations in Ontario Canada.
The new product, named the ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Under the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of available credit is causing projects to be delayed or terminated, but the clean energy sector is continuing to attract substantial amounts of investment capital. Ernst & Young noted in early October that the global "clean technology" market is expected to garner ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Add this to the long list of global shortages: engineers and highly-skilled manual laborers.
Over the past decade, the proliferation of massive infrastructure and energy projects in nearly every corner of the world has resulted in shortages of everything from cement to construction cranes. Despite a few delays here and ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Hudson Clean Energy Partners Acquisition of Helium Energy
Hudson Clean Energy Partners announced that it has acquired Helium Energy S.L.U., a renewable energy development company headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Nippon Oil and SANYO Electric Joint Company
Nippon Oil Corporation and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to explore ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
A wave of solar-energy companies are scrambling to adjust to the lingering credit crisis in capital markets. While investors and analysts are still bullish on the sector’s long term prospects, the next year or two could see a major shake up in the crowded solar energy space.
The looming threat of ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The intense surface winds of Typhoon Olga, represented by yellow spirals, can be seen moving around South Korea in the China Sea. QuikScat tracks its birth as a tropical depression in the Philippines and its northward journey in the western Pacific to its landfall in Korea. The eastern North Pacific ...
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