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Globeleq Inaugurates 44 MW Eolo Wind Farm in Nicaragua

Globeleq Inaugurates 44 MW Eolo Wind Farm in Nicaragua

Globeleq, the emerging markets power company, has inaugurated its 44 MW Eolo de Nicaragua S.A. (Eolo) wind farm in Nicaragua, strengthening its position as the leading renewable energy company in the Central American region. [More]
New Mexico Non-Profits Offered Solar Grants by ReneSola and Positive Energy Solar

New Mexico Non-Profits Offered Solar Grants by ReneSola and Positive Energy Solar

ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola"), a leading brand and technology provider of solar photovoltaic ("PV") products, and Positive Energy, Inc. ("Positive Energy Solar"), New Mexico's leading residential and commercial solar installer, have announced three 2.5-kilowatt solar grants for non-profit organizations in Las Cruces, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [More]
Live Oak School District Dedicates Solar-Shaded Garden Bench to Sustainability Champion

Live Oak School District Dedicates Solar-Shaded Garden Bench to Sustainability Champion

On Friday, May 17, the Live Oak School District will celebrate completion of solar power installations and lighting efficiency upgrades at its six schools by dedicating a solar-shaded garden bench to the late Bernard "Barney" Bricmont, former member of the Live Oak School District Board and long-time supporter of solar and sustainability projects in the district. [More]
P2 Acquires Renewable Energy Project to Develop Mini-Hydro Facility in India

P2 Acquires Renewable Energy Project to Develop Mini-Hydro Facility in India

P2 Solar, Inc. (the "Company" or "P2") today announces it has acquired a unique renewable energy project to develop a mini-hydro facility in Punjab, India, on the Sidhwan irrigation canal in the city of Ludhiana. P2 now owns the project outright through its new wholly owned subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited and will be moving to begin construction as soon as this summer. [More]
DOE Early Career Award to Fund UCSB Research on Biomass-Derived Fuels

DOE Early Career Award to Fund UCSB Research on Biomass-Derived Fuels

Michelle O'Malley, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a 2013 Early Career Award by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. O'Malley is among 61 recipients of the annual research award, chosen from a pool of approximately 770 proposals. [More]
Fortum's Klaipeda Power Plant Utilizes Municipal, Industrial Waste and Biomass

Fortum's Klaipeda Power Plant Utilizes Municipal, Industrial Waste and Biomass

Dalia Grybauskaitë, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland, have today inaugurated Fortum's new combined heat and power plant in the city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. [More]
Tampereen Energiantuotanto’s Pellet-Fired Heating Plant Helps the Region Lower CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Tampereen Energiantuotanto’s Pellet-Fired Heating Plant Helps the Region Lower CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant, which was supplied by Metso to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, is based on a technological solution that is the first of its kind in the country. It will bring new opportunities to gear the structure of Finnish district heat production towards the goals of sustainable development. Previously, peak load plants have been using fossil fuels because there was no other technology available. [More]
Novel Energy Production System to Convert Food Waste into Clean Energy

Novel Energy Production System to Convert Food Waste into Clean Energy

The Kroger Co. today unveiled a clean energy production system that will convert food that can't be sold or donated into clean energy to help power its Ralphs/Food 4 Less Compton distribution center. [More]
Agreement on Provincial Share of Total Greenhouse Gas Reduction Critical to Address Climate-Change Challenge

Agreement on Provincial Share of Total Greenhouse Gas Reduction Critical to Address Climate-Change Challenge

To reach Canada's goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 17 per cent below the 2005 level by the year 2020, federal and provincial governments, led by the Prime Minister and provincial premiers, must reach agreement on what portion of the total GHG reduction will be provided by each province say researchers from the University of Toronto's School of the Environment. Their report is being sent to all Canadian federal and provincial governments, opposition parties and other participants in the climate policy dialogue. [More]
UBThisSummer Lecture Series to Showcase UB’s Research Pertaining to the Environment

UBThisSummer Lecture Series to Showcase UB’s Research Pertaining to the Environment

“The Environment” is the theme of the eighth edition of the UBThisSummer Lecture Series, the annual summer series of talks by prominent UB faculty members. [More]

Urban Green Energy (UGE) Launch New Wind Turbine

NEW YORK, New York, May 15th, 2013 - Urban Green Energy (UGE) announced today the launch of a new wind turbine, VisionAIR™, which will become the standard option in UGE’s leading hybrid energy solutions. T... [More]
Potentially Cost-Effective Method to Generate Hydrogen Gas from Water and Sunlight

Potentially Cost-Effective Method to Generate Hydrogen Gas from Water and Sunlight

Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas directly from water and sunlight. [More]
Environmentally Friendly Way of Pretreating Miscanthus for Biofuel Production

Environmentally Friendly Way of Pretreating Miscanthus for Biofuel Production

Two University of Illinois scientists have developed an environmentally friendly and more economical way of pretreating Miscanthus in the biofuel production process. [More]
Promising Technique Improves Production of Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Promising Technique Improves Production of Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass

The production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass would benefit on several levels if carried out at temperatures between 65 and 70 degrees Celsius. Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) have employed a promising technique for improving the ability of enzymes that break cellulose down into fermentable sugars to operate in this temperature range. [More]
Vehicles Powered by Alternative Energy Sources Displayed at 21st Century Automotive Challenge

Vehicles Powered by Alternative Energy Sources Displayed at 21st Century Automotive Challenge

The Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s Hybrid and Hydrogen Vehicle Research Laboratory will host the 21st Century Automotive Challenge on May 16-19 at Penn State’s University Park campus. [More]
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