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Company Offsets 100 Percent of Electricity Use and Emissions Produced from Business Travel

Sterling-Rice Group, a Boulder, Colo.-based brand-building and marketing communications firm, today announced it has purchased 339,300 kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy credits (RECs) generated by wind farms across America.

10 Jun 2008

Network Aims to Inspire Consumers to Learn and Take Action to Lighten Environmental Footprint

Today The Timberland Company announced the global launch of the Earthkeeper campaign, a movement to recruit one million people to become part of an online network designed to inspire real environmental behavior change.

10 Jun 2008

AMSC Receives Order for Electrical Components for Wind Turbines

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a $450 million order from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited for core electrical components for 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines.

10 Jun 2008

Suntech Power Introduces BIPV Products to the European Market

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it will introduce its Just Roof(TM), Light Thru(TM) and QuikSnap building integrated PV (BIPV) products from Suntech's MSK Solar Design Line(TM) to the European market at the upcoming Intersolar Technology Trade Fair 2008. Intersolar will be held from June 12-14, 2008 at The New Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany

10 Jun 2008

DuPont Expands Production of Solamet to Support Fast-Growing PV Market

To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont today announced that it will expand production of DuPont(TM) Solamet(R) thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility here.

10 Jun 2008

Duke Energy Plans to Install Solar Panels at up to 850 North Carolina Sites

Duke Energy Carolinas is proposing a $100 million plan to install electricity generating solar panels at up to 850 North Carolina sites including homes, schools, stores and factories.

10 Jun 2008

Largest Residential Solar Electric System Still Standing After Tornado

Bella Energy, a Louisville, Colorado-based solar energy company serving the Rocky Mountain Region, found that one of their systems, the largest residential solar electric system in Colorado, is still standing after a Class F3 tornado blew through Northern Colorado last week. Tornados are rated 1-5, with 5 being the strongest.

9 Jun 2008

Democratic and Republican National Conventions to be Powered by Renewable Energy

The 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions will be powered with clean, renewable wind and solar energy, Xcel Energy announced today. This is also the first time the same electric utility will serve both conventions in separate cities in the same year.

9 Jun 2008

Utility Signs a Third Long-Term Agreement for Low Cost Wind Power

Delmarva Power and Arlington, Virginia-based energy supplier AES Corporation have signed a long-term contract under which Delmarva Power would purchase up to 70 megawatts of land-based wind power to help meet its renewable energy goals in Delaware.

9 Jun 2008

Callaway Gardens Chooses Wind Power to Offset 100 Percent of Its Electricity

Callaway Gardens, a 13,000-acre destination comprised of award-winning gardens, upscale lodge and spa, recreation and residential communities all focusing on connecting man with nature, has offset all of its electricity use with renewable energy by purchasing 21,000,000-kilowatt hours of renewable energy credits (RECs).

7 Jun 2008