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Materia to Partner with California Institute of Technology in e Bio-inspired Wind Energy Center Grant

Materia, a Pasadena, California-based company, declared that it will function as an industrial partner to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in a $6 million grant granted to Caltech.

14 Feb 2011

Magnolia Solar Makes Multiple Number of Patent Filings Related to Thin Film Solar Cell Technologies

Magnolia Solar declared that its fully owned subsidiary company with the similar name Magnolia Solar has finished the initial requirements of its intellectual property protection plan.

14 Feb 2011

Siemens Climate Award 2010 Presented to Risø National Laboratory Scientist

Trine Klemensø, a young scientist and Project Manager of a vital project at the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, has been chosen for the Siemens Climate Awarded 2010 for his work in fuel cells.

14 Feb 2011

New Solar Fuels Lab Opened by NTU

The researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) would now be able to recreate an energy process that occurs in plants for producing fuel from sunlight and water.

14 Feb 2011

UC Berkeley Engineers Develop Innovative Technique for Growing Nanolasers Directly on Silicon Surface

Engineers working at the Berkeley, University of California, have developed a process whereby nanolasers could be grown directly on a silicon surface.

14 Feb 2011

INM Scientists Develop CIGS Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency

Researchers at the INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials have been able to develop a barrier layer that would separate the metal carrier from the absorber film, leading to increased efficiency for the CIGS Solar Cells, which are metal- based.

14 Feb 2011

Centrotec to Acquire Solar23

Centrotec Sustainable, a company based in Brilon in Germany, has declared that its subsidiary company, Ubbink, has purchased a 60% share in Solar23. Solar23 aims at developing the African solar PV and solar thermal projects like off-grid solar solutions.

14 Feb 2011

Southern California Edison Enters Power Purchase Agreement with First Solar

Southern California Edison (SCE) declared that it has entered into a power purchase agreement with First Solar for250 MW AC solar photovoltaic power generated with photovoltaic panels. The signed accord is subject to approval of the project by the California Public Utilities Commission.

14 Feb 2011

Southern California Gas Erects Wastewater Biogas Demo Plant in Escondido

Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), and the city of Escondido, declared the beginning of the first renewable energy project to cleanse the wastewater biogas to achieve the criteria of natural gas provided to homes and businesses.

14 Feb 2011

Iberdrola Renewables, FirstEnergy Solutions Sign Power Purchase Accord

FirstEnergy Solutions, an auxiliary company of FirstEnergy, will buy 100 MW of clean energy from the 304 MW Blue Creek Wind Farm being constructed by Iberdrola Renewables in Western Ohio.

14 Feb 2011

Suniva to Introduce ARTisun Select Poduct Line to Produce Efficient Solar Cells

Suniva, a USA-based producer of monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, has declared that its patented ARTisun Select series solar cells are designed to achieve an efficiency of 19%, an achievement for screen-printed cells under mass-scale production.

14 Feb 2011

Sunvalley Solar Signs MOU with Tianwei SolarFilms to Develop Solar Projects in the USA

Sunvalley Solar declared that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tianwei SolarFilms to institute a strategical joint venture in the United States.

14 Feb 2011

Solar Energy Initiatives Signs Development Deal for Solar PPA Project

Solar Energy Initiatives, a company operating in the solar power development market, has declared that the company has arranged to secure a developer fee as well as the reimbursement of project expenditures on a 1-MW solar power purchase agreement (PPA) project with ESA Renewables.

14 Feb 2011

Sprott Power Acquires Wind Power Assets in Canada

Sprott Power, a Canada-based developer and financier for alternative energy projects, has proclaimed that the company has closed the acquisition of a wind power company, Sky Generation.

14 Feb 2011

GENCO Joins Four Others to Open Hydrogen Fuel Supply in South Carolina

GENCO, a third-party logistics providing company, declared that it is associating with Kimberly-Clark, Plug Power, Air Products and the Aiken-Edgefield Development Partnership

14 Feb 2011