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Renova Energia Awards USD 32 Million Wind Power Orders to ABB

ABB with a rich and varied experience of 120 years as a technological leader declared that it has been awarded a $32 million wind power contract from Renova Energia.

25 Jan 2011

Kalahari Greentech Releases Revenue Projection Statement for 2011

Kalahari Greentech has declared a statement containing revenue projections for the company for the year 2011.

25 Jan 2011

ESA Renewables to Construct Solar PV Farm in North Carolina

ESA Renewables has commenced construction activities on a 1 MW PV solar farm in Culberson, North Carolina almost 200 miles southwest of Charlotte. The total generated electricity would be sold as per a 10 year power purchase agreement to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

25 Jan 2011

MarketResearch Releases Report on PV Technologies

MarketResearch.com has released BCC Research’s latest offering titled "Photovoltaics: Global Markets and Technologies". PV technology has been utilized from 1950 onwards. However this technology started advancing and developing for use by consumers and industry only from the 1970s when oil restrictions and embargoes were seen.

25 Jan 2011

Scotland Approves Hydro Energy Scheme Proposed by RWE

Ministers in Scotland’s Government have approved a new hydro energy scheme with a potential of powering 2500 homes. RWE npower renewables had submitted a planning application for a 4.5 MW hydro project located on Maldie Burn near Sutherland’s Kylestrome in the year 2009.

25 Jan 2011

Telluride Plans MicroHydro Projects for Harnessing Energy from Running Water

The town of Telluride after implementing the new Solar PV System at the Telluride Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant has plans of including more Renewable Energy project to reduce the carbon footprint.

25 Jan 2011

Salamon and SPFM to Acquire Solar Power Charging Station

The Salamon Group has declared that it is planning to acquire a solar energy project of General Motors from Sunlogics, a solar power charging station builder.

25 Jan 2011

Rwanda Focuses on Geothermal Power for Generating Power

Rwanda intends to add geothermal power to the renewable energy portfolio of the country to deal with the severe electricity challenges faced by the growing economy. The nation has set a target of 300 MW electricity generation from geothermal sources during the forthcoming six years.

25 Jan 2011

NX Global Plans to Build Waste to Energy Projects with Blue Green Algae

NX Global and its subsidiary Applied Concepts for Energy (ACEC) have been awarded a $100 million from a private organization based in the US. The funding would be utilized to buy a property and construct a waste-to-energy and algae unit in Canada.

25 Jan 2011

Geothermal Power Projects Planned for Jammu + Kashmir

The Central Government of India is planning to utilize geothermal resources that are available in plenty in the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) for a 100 MW geothermal energy power generation.

25 Jan 2011

Keynote Address Delivered by President of Iceland at the GEA 2011 Forum

Geothermal Energy Association (GEA)’s 2011 Annual Geothermal Energy Finance Forum in New York City saw Iceland’s President, Olafur Ragnor Grimsson, delivering the keynote address.

25 Jan 2011

NASA Johnson Space Center Selects EverLast PVW Lighting for Illuminating Parking Lot

EverLast Induction Lighting’s EverLast PV/Wind Hybrid Area Lighting System has been chosen by Houston’s NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas for illuminating a parking lot with an advanced lighting system.

25 Jan 2011

Hanwha SolarOne to Develop Solar Cell and Module Production Plant in China

Hanwha SolarOne, a vertically integrated producer of silicon ingots, wafers, solar photovoltaic cells and solar modules in China, has inked an investment, memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone to develop a new manufacturing plant in Nantong, Jiangsu Province.

25 Jan 2011

IFC Invests in Renewable Energy Projects in India

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, has guaranteed $300 million, for renewable energy project developments in India. Anita George, Director of Infrastructure at IFC, said that the funding would be a blend of debt and equity over the coming three years.

25 Jan 2011

FlexEnergy Acquires Ingersoll Rand’s Energy Systems Business

FlexEnergy, a cleantech firm that generates clean energy with near-zero emissions of unsafe greenhouse gases, has closed the purchase of the Ingersoll Rand’s Energy Systems business based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

25 Jan 2011