In response to a relative slump in Solar Power / Photovoltaic sales in domestic and international markets, China's State Council has backed a target for the country to massively increase installed solar power to 35GW by 2015.
A team of Penn State engineers has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research reducing power consumption at data centers.
IDS Industries today announced it will be attending Intersolar North America, held from July 9-11, 2013 in San Francisco. Co-located with SEMICON West, the flagship annual microelectronics conference, Intersolar is the premier solar industry exhibition in North America.
A discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may represent a significant advance in the quest to create a "hydrogen economy" that would use this abundant element to store and transfer energy.
Westport Innovations Inc., the global leader in natural gas engines, today announced that it has acquired BAF Technologies, Inc. (BAF) and its subsidiary, ServoTech Engineering, Inc. (ServoTech), subsidiaries of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. for $25 million in Westport stock. Westport and Clean Energy also announced a $5 million joint marketing and sales program.
Northwest Energy Angels (NWEA) announced it has invested a total of $1,848,800 in ten clean technology companies during the first half of 2013. The amount is two-thirds of the total amount invested during all of 2012 by NWEA (not counting institutional investments). More than half of the investments were made in companies outside the state of Washington, continuing a trend of out-of-state interest in NWEA among cleantech entrepreneurs.
The Cleantech Fellows Institute today announced that it has changed its name to the Energy Fellows Institute. The Energy Fellows Institute is the nation’s first targeted program to educate experienced entrepreneurs and executives in technology sectors of the advanced energy industry.
Theoretically, hydropower can step in when wind turbines go still, but barriers to this non-polluting resource serving as a backup are largely policy- and regulation-based, according to Penn State researchers.
The innovative energy efficiency program at the Empire State Building has exceeded guaranteed energy savings for the second year in a row, saving $2.3 million and providing a new model for building retrofits that is now being rolled out nationwide.
Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly energy source.
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