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Professor to Obtain Bio-diesel from Algae

Of all the alternate bio-diesel resources, Zhiyou Wen, professor of food science and human nutrition, picked on micro-algae. Wen and his colleagues harvested algae and converted its oil extracts into bio-fuel for alternative energy research.

27 Dec 2010

PUC to Enhance Wind Energy Education

PUC's Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) recently received a federal grant of $749,853 to initiate the Mixed Reality Simulators for Wind Energy Education.

27 Dec 2010

KB Racking Launches Lightweight Solar System

KB Racking has introduced its AeroRack model at a solar conference, which was held in Canada. The Canadian affiliate of Knubix , a provider of flat roof mounting systems, showcased its racking system at the CanSIA Solar Canada 2010.

27 Dec 2010

Western Wind Energy to Procure Wind Turbines from Gamesa for Windstar Project

Western Wind Energy has declared that it has acquired 120 MW of Gamesa G8X-2.0 series of wind turbines. Gamesa would supply the total 120 MW to Windstar wind project at the Tehachapi Pass in Southern California.

23 Dec 2010

Spectrum Solar Offers Special Package for Solar Installations

Spectrum Solar Sydney provides consumers new solar power units that would save 50% of power used over the next 25 years. This offer is for consumers who are environmentally conscious and would value the Christmas season offer by the company.

23 Dec 2010

Hydro Québec Announces PPA with Innergex, Rivière-du-Loup for a Wind Farm

Innergex and the Rivière-du-Loup MRC have declared that they have been chosen by Hydro Québec Distribution for a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with regard to the Viger-Denonville Community Wind Farm.

23 Dec 2010

Distributed Sun Launches Fast-Track Commercial Group with Prospect Solar

Distributed Sun, a solar project innovator, disclosed that it has formed a Fast-Track Commercial Group with new partnership and finance. They were ready to announce both large and small projects.

23 Dec 2010

Two Community Wind Project Contracts Awarded to Boralex, RCM Partners

Boralex in partnership with two county municipalities has been awarded two wind projects of 25 MW capacities each.

23 Dec 2010

Ballard Power Systems to Partner with RTE for Fuel Cell Generator in Singapore

Ballard Power Systems declared that they would sell 1.25 MW of the 1300 fuel cell generators to Real Time Engineering (RTE), which is a System Integrator company, based in Singapore.

23 Dec 2010

Northland Power Income Fund to Build Wind Farm in Frampton, Quebec

Northland Power Income Fund announced that it has received a power purchase agreement for a 24 MW wind farm in Frampton, Quebec, in proximity to the St. Lawrence sea shore. Under the 20-year agreement, the company will build and operate the wind farm.

23 Dec 2010

Energy Technologies to Produce Hydrogen Fuel Economically

Energy Technologies announced that its technological advancements in the process of water electrolysis proved successful. Earlier, the electrolysis of water was considered expensive, as high amount of electricity was required and also because of expensive transportation and storage issues. Now the company has discovered a cost-effective method to produce hydrogen fuel.

23 Dec 2010

Kalahari Greentech Designs Gas Turbine to Work with Solar Collector

Kalahari Greentech declared that an exhaustive study performed on the use of its ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) turbine proved that it can function in the temperature range matching a solar collector.

23 Dec 2010

Goa State Horticultural Corporation Plans to Introduce Solar Powered Carts

The State Government owned Goa State Horticultural Corporation (GSHCL) has decided to harvest solar energy to preserve the vegetables and fruits that are being sold at the beach front. The government has plans to introduce 20 such carts to cater to the needs of the tourists who visit the beaches in Goa, India.

23 Dec 2010

tei Solutions, Mears Technologies to Develop Production Efficiency of Solar Cells

tei Solutions, an integrated metal works company offering 100mm and 300mm R&D services, declared that it has entered in to a partnership with the US-based, Mears Technologies, an up-coming materials technology business.

23 Dec 2010

Solar By Weller Presents Cheap Solar Solutions to Overcome Deregulation

Solar By Weller, a solar panel installing company in Southeastern, PA, persists with its cheap renewable solar energy solutions to enable the citizens of the state to take advantage of renewable solar energy, and to tide over the results of the anticipated deregulation in electric power markets all over Pennsylvania in 2011.

23 Dec 2010