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WMECo Completes the First Phase of Pittsfield Solar Facility

Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECo) announced the culmination of its New England solar power generating facility. The new 1.8 MW solar project located at the William Stanley Business Park, over Silver Lake Boulevard in Pittsfield, is its first development out of the totally planned 6 MW solar facility.

28 Oct 2010

Ferro Electronic Materials Introduces Front and Back Pastes for Silicon Solar Cells

Ferro Electronic Materials, a supplier of fabricating materials for use in photovoltaic silicon solar cells, has announced its plans to launch glues that can be used in front and rear contacts of PV solar panels.

28 Oct 2010

Span Pumps Introduces Solar Hand Pumps

Span Pumps, a Pune city-based company, has announced the availability of solar powered hand pumps.

27 Oct 2010

Gamesa to Set up Global Offshore Wind Operations Headquarters in the UK

Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica, a wind turbine manufacturing company from Spain, declared that it will utilize the UK as a base for its worldwide offshore wind energy operations.

27 Oct 2010

Algal Bio-diesel Demo Receives Appreciation from Algal Biomass Organization

The U.S. Navy has successfully tested the use of a 50-50 mix of regular shipboard fuel with algae based bio-diesel in one of its vessels. The effort received appreciation from Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), an algae industry trade association.

27 Oct 2010

Vision Electro Mechanical to Use SolFocus’s CPV Solar Systems

SolFocus, a producer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, has declared that Vision Electro Mechanical Company, an auxiliary of Construction Products Holding Company (CPC), will use its CPV systems in the first of its kind solar power generating plant in Saudi Arabia.

27 Oct 2010

Mercury Solar Systems Fixes 1.2 MW Rooftop and Carport Systems in Newark

Mercury Solar Systems, a solar integrating company, associated with Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and installed 1.2 MW solar systems on two public schools located in Newark, NJ.

27 Oct 2010

Gebäude-Solarsysteme-the First Franchisee of Day4 Energy's solarSYSTEMS

Day4 Energy, a solar photovoltaic products and solution providing company, declared that Gebäude-Solarsysteme (GSS) of Thuringia, Germany, a solar technology company and a licensed partner of its Day4 solarSYSTEM’S turnkey production program, has become fully functional and produces Day4 labeled solar PV modules for various types of applications.

27 Oct 2010

DTE Energy Services Revives Stoneman Station to Produce Biomass Power

The E.J. Stoneman Station owned by DTE Energy Services has started generating and delivering electric power utilizing biomass energy. Dairyland Power Cooperative, a neighborhood utility company located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is buying the total output of 40 MW to meet the energy requirements of its members.

27 Oct 2010

Good Energies, NIBC Infrastructure Partners Secure Q-Cells Developed Solar PV Plants

Good Energies, an investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries, and NIBC Infrastructure Partners, a company with an investment focus in countries such as Benelux, Germany and the UK, have made an accord with Q-Cells SE, a German solar integrating company, to purchase Finsterwalde II and Finsterwalde III solar PV plants situated in Brandenburg, Germany.

27 Oct 2010