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New Website Offers Most Generous Rewards Program for Greener Living

The new EcoPerks experience launches today offering simple ways to live a more carbon neutral lifestyle while earning EcoPoints to be used toward valuable rewards.

14 Apr 2008

Solar Cell Prototypes Reveal a 15-20% Growth of Electrical Power

Global Warming Solutions, Inc. - a developer of technologies aimed at mitigating the effects of global warming -today provided an update on the progress of its joint testing with Solar Wind, Ltd.

14 Apr 2008

Focusing on Energy Efficiency Investments

With everyone talking about skyrocketing energy costs and the environment, executives are continuing to focus on energy efficiency investments, according to new research commissioned by Johnson Controls.

14 Apr 2008

Renewable Electricity Supported Through Creation of Renewables Portfolio Standards

Renewable electricity is being supported by a growing number of states through the creation of renewables portfolio standards (RPS). A report released by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) provides a comprehensive overview of the early experiences with these state-level RPS policies.

14 Apr 2008

Spectrolab to Provide Solar Cell Assemblies Capable of Generating 350MW of Electricity

The Boeing Company today announced a third multimillion-dollar contract award with Solar Systems Pty. Ltd. for concentrator photovoltaic cell assemblies used to produce renewable energy.

14 Apr 2008

Suntech Named Frost + Sullivan's 2008 Solar Energy Development Company of the Year

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it was named Frost + Sullivan's 2008 Solar Energy Development Company of the Year.

14 Apr 2008

Incentives Encouraging Construction of Wind and Solar Energy Projects

The U.S. Senate has approved legislation renewing the incentives which encourage construction of wind and solar energy projects. The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008 passed the Senate with overwhelming bi-partisan support in an 88 to 8 vote.

14 Apr 2008

Performance Fluids Business Enables Large Solar Power Plants to Collect Heat to Electricity

The Dow Chemical Company Performance Fluids business is enabling three large solar power plants in Spain to collect heat and convert it to electrical energy. Taking advantage of the sunny climate, and favorable tax incentives, Spain is pioneering large, commercially viable solar power plants.

13 Apr 2008

Mater Dei's 2,843.4 Mpg Achievement Stretches Boundaries of Fuel Efficiency

Mater Dei High School of Evansville, Ind., set a new mileage record at the 2008 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a challenge to design, build and test fuel-efficient prototype vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel.

13 Apr 2008

The MIT-Fraunhofer Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems

At the MIT Energy Conference this morning, Foreign Minister of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, along with MIT President Susan Hockfield and Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles, participated in the announcement ceremony for the founding of the MIT-Fraunhofer Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems.

12 Apr 2008