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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

Parity Solar Installs Building Integrated Photovoltaic System in China

Provider of ultra quality photovoltaic products and services to the global solar power market, Parity Solar, has completed the deployment of a sophisticated building integrated photovoltaic system (BIPV) in the New Area Court House complex in Zhenjiang City, China.

3 Feb 2011

Xcel Energy Installs Solar Array in Leyva Middle School in Carlsbad, New Mexico

Minneapolis-based, Xcel Energy has completed the installation of a 13-kW solar photovoltaic array system at P.R. Leyva Middle School in Carlsbad.

3 Feb 2011

GE, Cobra Energia Offer Advanced Services for Wind Turbines

GE declared that it has contracted a 10-year accord with Cobra Energia, a Spanish wind energy developing company, to offer advanced services for its 178 GE wind turbines erected at eight wind farms all over Spain.

3 Feb 2011

AGL Selects KBR to Provide Project Management Services for Wind Turbine Farm in Australia

AGL Energy Limited (AGL) has chosen KBR to deliver project management services for its wind turbine farm in Victoria, Australia.

3 Feb 2011

China Integrated Energy Builds Biodiesel Manufacturing Plant

China Integrated Energy has finished the construction of a new biodiesel manufacturing plant next to its 100,000-ton biodiesel manufacturing plant in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province.

3 Feb 2011

Converting Waste Heat into Electricity

We probably all remember the newspaper pictures of houses and factories captured with infrared cameras. The heat pouring out. And although it may be great for keeping the sparrows warm, there is probably better ways to use this energy. Therefore, Risø DTU received considerable funding from the Danish Council for Strategic Research to develop a technology that can convert waste heat into electricity.

2 Feb 2011

Biomass and Solar Powered Greenhouse Reduces Energy Costs and Improves Crop Yields

Neiker-Tecnalia (The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development) has created an air-conditioned greenhouse using alternative energies that enable the reduction of energy costs, improvements in energy efficiency and an increase in crop yields.

2 Feb 2011

Keeping Roads Clean and in Good Order Reduces Emissions

Road traffic is one of the main sources of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere, above all when the weather situation favors the creation of winter smog, as has been the case over the past few days in the Swiss “Mittelland”. It was found that keeping roads as clean as possible and in good repair makes a significant contribution to reducing the problem of fine particulate emissions.

2 Feb 2011

Sustainable Homes Could be the Solution for First Home Buyers

First time buyers could benefit if the Government and construction industry look to more innovative ways of producing affordable and sustainably produced and run homes, suggests a Loughborough University study.

2 Feb 2011

Turanor PlanetSolar Ship Circumnavigates World to Propagate Solar Energy

Turanor PlanetSolar, the large sized boat powered by solar energy that commenced its world tour four months back from Monaco, has now reached the Galapagos Islands away from the coast of Ecuador.

2 Feb 2011