A team of ecologists led by Peter Curtis, professor and chair of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University have voided some of the theories about the aging forests and the resultant concern about the continual benefits such as carbon storage to counterbalance greenhouse gas emissions, filtered water, soil fertility and cleansed air.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Aug 2011
First Wind, a wind energy company in the US, has completed its 60 MW Rollins Wind project located in Penobscot County, Maine.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Aug 2011
U.S. Green Building Council’s Orange County Chapter has declared its proposal about a planned pilot project to furnish a currently existing class room at Costa Mesa-located Davis Magnet School.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Aug 2011
AEG Power Solutions, declared that it has contracted an accord with Surana Venture, an Indian company to supply balance of electrical systems such as measurement equipment, monitoring systems and inverters for a 5 MW solar power project located in Gujarat, an Indian State.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Aug 2011
MicroGen Systems, an Ithaca based company and Cornell Nanoscale Facility of Cornell University, have joined to build battery-free sensors that can function using energy harvested from any type of motion such as shakes, jiggles, rolls and spins and can function in clothing dryers or car tires.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Aug 2011
Atlantis Resources Corporation, the international marine energy developer, has connected its 1MW AR1000 tidal turbine to the grid at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland.
DuPont’s Packaging & Industrial Polymers operations site in Orange, Texas, has been honored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a U.S. trade association, for energy-efficiency improvements that also resulted in green house gas (GHG) reductions.
From the first of May 2011, the commercial operation for the power plant, the first commercial plant in the world to use molten salt storage in a central tower configuration with a heliostat field, yielded better results than were expected. With its 19.9 MW of power, Gemasolar reached peak production levels of over 350 MWh in 24 hours of uninterrupted operation.
Washington and Lee University has declared the contracting of an accord with Secure Futures, a Staunton, VA-based solar power developing company to erect two solar PV panels at two locations on the W & L campus to generate a total of 450 kW power.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Aug 2011
A new research performed by the researchers at the University of Southampton, has led to the development of a mechanism that incorporates computerized management facility to handle energy storage devises utilized at home thus enabling up to 16% energy savings.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Aug 2011
Bharat Renewable Energy, a partnership venture of the Indian government owned petroleum company, Bharat Petroleum, has initiated a plan with SG Biofuels (SGB) to grow and utilize a crossbreed variety of Jatropha in the manufacture of biodiesel in India.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Aug 2011
REC Solar, a solar power providing company, declared that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has granted it two accords to design and erect turnkey type of solar panels over the carport and ground for VA hospitals located in Texas and California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Aug 2011
The remote airfield located at the Northern Canadian Tsay Keh Dene First Nation will have solar LED light facility supplied by Carmanah Technologies.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Aug 2011
To spur growth of the solar industry and support education, Dow Corning has announced that it is a sustaining sponsor of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, which will be held Sept. 23 - Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.
International Power Canada, a company that manages an array of power business services such as liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural gas, cogeneration and electric power generation in Canada, Mexico and United States, meeting the power requirement of industrial and commercial clients, is readying to begin the building of its Cape Scott Wind Farm.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Aug 2011