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Greenwood Biosar to Deliver Five Santerno Solar Inverters at Romanian Solar Project

Santerno, the Carraro Group company that specializes in alternative energy electronics and industrial automation, has signed an agreement with Greenwood Biosar, the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) division of Greenwood Energy, to deliver five Santerno TG760 1000V solar inverters for installation at a new solar project in Calarasi, Romania.

19 Sep 2013

ASU Student Studies Impact of Climate Change on Nepali Farmers

In a country where she didn’t know anyone, couldn’t speak the language and was a stranger to the culture, Tayler Jenkins pushed through her mission to research sustainable agriculture and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nepal.

19 Sep 2013

Marine Scotland Awards Consent to MeyGen for 86MW Tidal Energy Project

MeyGen Ltd. has been awarded consent by Marine Scotland for an 86MW tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth. The largest tidal stream energy project in Europe to receive consent, it constitutes the first phase of a site that has the potential to yield up to 398MW.

18 Sep 2013

New Approach Provides Early Warning of Potential Overfishing Threats

A new UC Santa Barbara study shows that threats created by overfishing can be identified decades before the fish species at risk experience high overly harvest rates and subsequent population declines.

18 Sep 2013

New Eco-Friendly Compound Decomposes and Converts Landfill Plastics to Clean Energy

Inviroment has developed a new patent-pending compound called PlasTek™ that solves landfill space capacity problems by decomposing plastics in 12–36 months once sprayed onto garbage in a landfill —a process that would normally take thousands of years to occur.

18 Sep 2013

Sunpreme Receives IEC 61701 Accreditation and PID Certification for GX Series Modules

Sunpreme Inc., a US-based Silicon Valley based solar company that designs and manufactures its own photovoltaic cells and panels, announced that its advanced GX300 panels have earned IEC 61701 salt mist corrosion test certification. Additionally, its PV modules successfully passed the Potential Induced Degradation Test (PID) under severe conditions of high voltage, high temperature, and high humidity.

18 Sep 2013

New Generation Power Awarded MATOC Contract for Geothermal Technology

The Army today awarded New Generation Power Inc. of Chicago, Ill., a geothermal technology, a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for renewable and alternative energy production for Department of Defense (DOD) installations.

18 Sep 2013

ESNA Honors Duke Energy’s Notrees Battery Storage Project with Innovation Award

Duke Energy’s Notrees Battery Storage Project, located in Ector and Winkler counties, Texas, was recently honored with the top utility-scale energy storage innovation award at the 2013 Energy Storage North America (ESNA) Conference and Expo in San Jose, Calif.

17 Sep 2013

LEED Platinum Certified Sandy Grove Middle School to Utilize 589 kW DC Solar PV System

PowerSecure International, Inc., announced today that it has designed and installed the power systems for Sandy Grove Middle School (SGMS) in Lumber Bridge, NC, which opened for the 2013-2014 school year as one of the nation’s first net positive energy schools.

17 Sep 2013

3M Purification Achieves WQA Sustainability Certifications

3M Purification is the first to achieve WQA Sustainability Certifications under the new WQA Product Sustainability standards.

17 Sep 2013

Engineers Employ Falling Particle Receiver Technology for Efficient Conversion of Sun’s Energy into Electricity

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun’s energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants.

17 Sep 2013

Malaria Transmission in West Africa May not be Affected by Climate Change

As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5.

17 Sep 2013

History of Solar Energy

The Chinese got it. So did the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Long before the advent of modern photovoltaics and solar grids, these forward thinkers were finding ways to harness the sun's energy - present in infinite supply - and use it to heat their homes and baths, and even to cook their food.

16 Sep 2013

Liberty Power Donates Renewable Energy Certificates for USHCC Annual Convention

Liberty Power, the nation’s largest independent retail electric supplier, is proud to announce its partnership with the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC).

16 Sep 2013

New Munksjö Website for Paper Release Liner Recycling Program

Munksjö announces today the launch of www.full-circle.eu, a website offering to the Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) value chain information and easy access to the company’s paper liner recycling program.

16 Sep 2013