Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has announced the signing of a 25 year power purchase accord with the Bowersock Mills and Power (BPMC) to buy 7 MW of electricity generated from its proposed hydroelectric power generation facility.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 May 2011
FOBSUN ELECTRONICS LIMILTED releases their new FCL recessed downlights with Cree or Osram LEDs recently. As one of the biggest Chinese LED Lighting Manufacturers, Suppliers and Exporters, FOBSUN always insists on supplying LED Lighting products with best design and quality at the lowest price to the market.
SEMI, the global trade association for the nano and microelectronics manufacturing, and VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau), the German Engineering Federation, released their new quarterly Worldwide Photovoltaics (PV) Equipment Market Statistics report.
SolarCraft, based in Sonoma and Novato, has completed the installation of solar electric panels at the Meadow Club in Fairfax, CA.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
San Diego Gas &Electric (SDG&E) has signed two 25-year agreements with Soitec Solar Development’s subsidiaries to generate solar energy of 125 megawatts (MW) in total at the service territory of the facility.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Georgia Tech and Ford Motors have developed an innovative "Green Eco School Bus”.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Enel Green Power North America (EGP NA) has commenced the construction work at its Caney River Wind Project (Caney) in Elk County, Kansas.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
AlumiFuel Power (API), a Pennsylvania-based hydrogen producing company, has combined with its Illinois-based key contractor, Ingenium Technologies to develop a hydrogen generating system for powering Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) with its own AlumiFuel powders.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Metabolix (NASDAQ: MBLX), a bioscience company focused on developing clean, sustainable solutions for plastics, chemicals and energy, today announced that Senior Scientist Dr. Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy was honored by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) with a lifetime achievement award for his considerable contributions to the polymers industry.
Voith Hydro, a joint venture of Siemens and Voith, declared that it has received two orders from two Chinese utility companies for hydro power projects in China.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Collecting the available solar light efficiently is a problem with most of the solar panels supplied in the markets today. A majority of them harvest only 20% of the available light.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
A team of scientists led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further improved the power conversion capabilities of flexible solar cells manufactured utilizing copper indium gallium (di)selenide or CIGS.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
A new project report titled, ‘Drops of Energy: Conserving Urban Water in California to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,’ emphasizes the need for saving water to save energy and to cut down green house gas discharges.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
The Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) of the California Energy Commission has declared a grant of $1.4 million for UC San Diego to speedup the growth and usage of green renewable energy in California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
At Chinaplas 2011, booth 10.2E21, the Innovative Plastics strategic business unit of SABIC announced a new milestone in its expanding sustainability efforts to provide customers with a diverse portfolio of high-performance, environmentally responsible materials.