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Viridor Plans to Construct Resource Efficiency Project in Scotland

Viridor has plans of constructing a £200 million resource efficiency project that would take in waste material, which is non-recyclable from landfill areas and produce electricity for powering 40,000 houses.

22 Dec 2010

Processed Used Cooking Oil to Power Truck Fleets in San Diego

At the New Leaf Biofuel located at the Barrio Logan facility, Efren Montoya collects and accumulates used cooking oil that would later be converted into biodiesel, to fuel diesel trucks.

22 Dec 2010

Lopez Group Plans to Invest in Mini Hydro Generation Plants

The Lopez Group has plans of investing around $150 million in Mindanao by developing three new mini hydro generation plants.

22 Dec 2010

23 Wind Turbines Supplied by GC China to Tianhe Wind Power Development

GC China Turbine declared that it has transported 23 turbines on the 29th of November, 2010, to Tianhe Wind Power Development, a company, which is a part of the Guodian Group. GC China is a leading manufacturer of state-of-the art twin blade wind turbines in China.

22 Dec 2010

Energy Quest to Construct Modular Bioenergy Power Plant

Energy Quest (EQI) has proclaimed that it is setting in motion the preliminary work for a modular biomass power plant that would produce 6.4 MW bioenergy to be sold back to the utility in Georgia’s Lee County.

22 Dec 2010

Alstom to Supply Turbine Generators for Guanyinyan Hydropower Project

Alstom announced that it has received a contract to supply equipment for the Guanyinyan hydro power project in China. The total value of the contract is about EUR 70 million.

22 Dec 2010

North Investors to Build Hydro Power Plants in Philippines

Sweden-based, North Investors announced that it has partnered with Constellation Energy, to establish hydro power plants in Mindoro and Nueva Ecija, Philippines. The combined capacity of the plants will be 71 MW.

22 Dec 2010

KenGen Receives Funds for Developing Geothermal Project in Kenya

KenGen, Kenya’s state owned utility, has been granted funds for the development of a 280 MW capacity geothermal plant.

22 Dec 2010

Cleanfield Energy to Install Wind Turbines on Urban Rooftops

Cleanfield Energy, a Pioneering Wind energy company, in Toronto, is planning to install wind turbines on Toronto’s rooftops and also in other cities throughout the world. This initiative is a major change from the conventional huge wind farms in rural areas, which were the norm in the past.

22 Dec 2010

Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce Presents Solar Innovation Award to OPEL

OPEL Solar, a Shelton, Connecticut-based company, has received the recognition award for its enduring involvement in the development of renewable solar energy with its registered solar trackers systems and high-end solar HCPV expertise from the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce.

22 Dec 2010

California Public Utilities Commission Introduces Program to Fuel Renewable Energy Development

The new, “Renewable Auction Mechanism” (RAM), program unanimously endorsed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is expected to fuel the growth among the small to mid-sized clean energy developers in the state of California.

22 Dec 2010

U.S. Solar Market Insight Predicts Growth in Solar Installations

GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in their recently released report declared that in the U.S. solar energy markets have shown an upward rise in the final quarter of 2010.

22 Dec 2010

SunLink Offers Non Penetrating Roof Mount Solutions to Sunset Reservoir Solar Project

SunLink , a commercial level solar photovoltaic solutions providing company, has declared the use of its non-penetrating type of commercial roof mount solar systems for a 5 MW solar power generating facility, owned and controlled by Recurrent Energy.

22 Dec 2010

CTDC Supplies Transparent Solar Modules to Two Companies in Italy

China Technology Development Group (CTDC) declared that its fully-owned auxiliary company, Linsun Power Technology (Quanzhou), has been chosen by two on-grid power plants, located in Verona and Molfetta in Italy, to provide 1.55 MW of transparent multi-crystalline solar modules.

22 Dec 2010

JinkoSolar, Innovalight to Manufacture Solar Cells with Increased Efficiency

JinkoSolar Holding, a solar products manufacturing company, declared that it has contracted a commercial accord with Innovalight, a company that produces the patented silicon ink and extends it patented manufacturing technology to solar cell producing companies.

22 Dec 2010