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Amtech Systems Receives New Solar Orders for January 2011

Amtech Systems, a producer and provider of manufacturing and automation systems and other systems required for the production of solar cells, silicon wafers and semiconductors, declared that its solar auxiliary company, Tempress Systems, has obtained around $32 million worth of solar supply orders for the month of January.

4 Feb 2011

Biodiesel from Plant Waste

For the last ten years, biodiesel in the form of fatty acid methyl ester has been promoted as a replacement for fossil-fuel-based diesel fuel. It was soon found that this has its problems because the required plants, such as rape, occupy cropland that can then no longer be used to grow food. A second-generation biodiesel is now supposed to be gained from plant waste.

3 Feb 2011

Hydrovolts Obtains New Funding and Partners for Hydrokinetic Turbine Development

Hydrovolts, a company producing innovative hydrokinetic turbines, has obtained new funding and has also developed strategic alliances with three companies in Washington for developing hydrokinetic turbines for renewable energy generation from water currents in channels and canals.

3 Feb 2011

Waste Recycling Group Announces Plans to Build Energy from Waste Plant

Waste Recycling Group (WRG) has proposed to construct and run an Energy from Waste (EfW) facility. The company is currently discussing the proposed plan with Waste Recycling Group (WRG) and plans to run the EfW facility with combined heat and power facility (CHP) at its Cardiff Road location.

3 Feb 2011

AEG PS to Deliver Power Supply Systems to GCL-Poly

Hong Kong-based company, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, has signed a €36 million contract with AEG Power Solutions (AEG PS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3W Power Holdings.

3 Feb 2011

Research and Markets Releases Report on Renewable Energy in Australia

Research and Markets has declared the availability of a new report titled, ‘Renewable Energy in Australia’, in their offerings.

3 Feb 2011

Pattern Energy Sets Up Operations Control Center in Houston

Pattern Energy declared that it has set up a new advanced Operations Control Center at Houston, Texas, to monitor wind energy projects.

3 Feb 2011

Unirac Commences Operations of its New Subsidiary Company in Canada

Unirac, a North America-based company providing infrastructure for installing solar systems, declared that it has formed a new subsidiary company named as Unirac Canada.

3 Feb 2011

Suntech Commences Second Shift at its Arizona Solar Panel Production Plant

Suntech Power Holdings, a manufacturer of solar panels for residential, commercial, industrial, and utility applications, declared that it has commenced the working of second production shift at its newly installed solar panel production facility in Goodyear, Arizona.

3 Feb 2011

SDE Receives Official Sanction for Wave Power Generation Plant in Kenya

SDE Energy declared that it has received official sanction from the Kenyan Ministry of Energy for installing a 100 MW power plant on the coastline of Kenya.

3 Feb 2011

KYOCERA Powers Japanese Schools with Solar Facility

Kyocera , a supplier of solar power generating systems, declared that it has erected over 1,200 solar power producing systems at public schools located in Japan.

3 Feb 2011

Recurrent Energy Enters Solar Module Supply Accord with Celestica

Recurrent Energy stated that it has entered into an accord with Celestica for the delivery of solar modules required by it for completing the projects it was awarded under the renewable energy Feed-in Tariff (FIT) agenda of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA).

3 Feb 2011

Georgia Power Enters Solar Power Purchase Agreement with Dalton Utilities

Georgia Power declared that it has acquired ownership of a number of solar projects up to 1 MW power production capability in Murray County, GA.

3 Feb 2011

EGPI Firecreek to Take Over Arctic Solar Engineering

EGPI Firecreek declared that it has signed a binding letter of intent for take over of Arctic Solar Engineering (ASE), which has contracted a new solar installation order from Sheet Metal Workers Union based in St. Louis, Missouri.

3 Feb 2011

NREL Verifies Conversion Efficiency of Nano-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell

Energy Conversion Devices’ subsidiary and producer of UNI-SOLAR-branded photovoltaic laminates, United Solar, has declared that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has verified an initial 12% conversion effectiveness of a huge-area solar cell utilizing the in-house Nano-Crystalline silicon of UNI-SOLAR.

3 Feb 2011