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Case Western Reserve, Replex Plastics Study Durability of Photovoltaic Systems

Case Western Reserve University will collaborate with Replex Plastics and embark on research to increase light intensity using mirrors on flat-panel modules for use in solar photovoltaic energy systems.

18 Feb 2011

Bureau of Land Management Appoints Bureau Veritas as Compliance Manager for Genesis Solar Energy Project

Appointed by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior; Bureau Veritas will serve as the Compliance Manager at Riverside County, California for the Genesis Solar Energy Project, which is slated to be one of the largest solar energy plants in the country.

18 Feb 2011

Tecnalia to Devise System to Collect Solar Energy from Asphalt Paved Surfaces

Tecnalia’s construction unit is participating in a two-year Pavener project led by the Campezo Group with the focus to devise a system to collect solar energy that asphalt paved surfaces absorb.

18 Feb 2011

China Sunergy Enters Agreement with GCL-Poly to Strengthen Supply Chain

A strategic agreement on long term supply of wafers between Nanjing-based solar cell and module manufacturer, China Sunergy, and a leading wafer supplier, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, (GCL-Poly) has been announced.

18 Feb 2011

UTC Power's PureCell Model 400 System Fleet Achieves Milestone

UTC Power announced, at the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Conference for 2011 held at Washington, D.C., that its PureCell Model 400 System fleet, a stationary fuel cell, has completed 100,000 hours of field operation, which is a major milestone in the history of United Technologies Corp.

18 Feb 2011

Pike Research Reports Homeowners Prefer Financing for Clean Energy Programs

Pike Research, a market research and consulting company, which offers in-depth examination of global clean technology markets, has declared the availability of a new survey and a white paper titled ‘PACE Financing Consumer Survey’ showing the preference of homeowners towards renewable energy projects.

18 Feb 2011

Constellation Energy Takes over Solar Power Project from Community Energy

Constellation Energy and Community Energy Solar declared that Constellation energy by utilizing one of its retail business units has consented to take over a 7.8 MW DC solar power production project from Community Energy, the developer of the project.

18 Feb 2011

Ukraine Aims for More Renewable Energy Power Generation

Ukraine, an East European country, is taking concrete steps to build renewable energy generation facilities.

18 Feb 2011

Bayer to Produce Plastics from Waste CO2 from the Energy Sector

Bayer is taking a new direction in the production of high-quality plastics with the help of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the energy sector. A pilot plant has come on stream at Chempark Leverkusen to trial the new process on a technical scale.

17 Feb 2011

Spectro Launch White Paper and Webinar on Aluminum Recycling

Aluminum recycling has quickly become an independent, flourishing commercial sector. The coveted light metal can be re-processed with no loss in quality – and that with only 5 percent of the energy required for the manufacture of new aluminum.

17 Feb 2011

Research and Markets Releases Report on Chinese Renewable Energy Market

Research and Markets, has declared that they have added a new report titled "China Renewable Energy Market Outlook” in their available reports list.

17 Feb 2011

Moser Baer Clean Energy Buys Thin Film Solar Modules from First Solar

Moser Baer Clean Energy (MBCEL), the auxiliary solar company of Moser Baer Projects (MBPPL), and First Solar, have signed a purchase agreement.

17 Feb 2011

Veeco Instruments Granted Funding for Solar Research

Veeco Instruments, a process equipment technology company, declared that it has been granted $4.8 million funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to speedup the research and development in making its Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium (CIGS) depositions arrangements commercially viable.

17 Feb 2011

The University of Maryland College to Sport Solar Panels

The University of Maryland, which was chosen as the Sunburst Initiative Partner for the Maryland Energy Administration Project, in Maryland and granted funding to encourage the usage of renewable energy in public buildings will soon sport 2,600 solar panels and generate green solar energy.

17 Feb 2011

Eaton Receives Federal Stimulus Funding to Develop Micro-Grid for U.S. Army

Eaton, engaged in power delivery, power quality, management and industrial mechanization products and services, declared that it has been selected to obtain a federal stimulus funding of $2.4 million to develop a micro-grid to assist the military base units to handle their power storage facilities while cutting down on their green house gas emissions.

17 Feb 2011