Ernst & Young’s indices that rank renewable energy markets and technologies of the countries world over in recent release ranks China as the leader in utilizing renewable energy sources.
Geostellar, a company that offers market information for renewable energy companies, has declared the availability of a solar energy simulation program for the use of utility scale, commercial and residential solar power generation.
Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) is using a new kind of biodiesel at its power generation station located in the Campell Industrial Park. The biodiesel is made from waste animal fat and cooking oil.
Select Solar And Generator, Michigan-based company that installs solar systems and provides standby generators for emergency situations, has contracted an accord with Jon Boyd, manager of a real estate company in Ann Arbor, to complete a rooftop solar installation for his ranch, located in West Ann Arbor.
Rosendin Electric, the nation’s largest private electrical contractor and a 100-percent employee-owned company, today announced the start of construction of a new 250,000 square-foot parking structure for the Metrolink Station in Tustin, California, including a photovoltaic power system.
The World LP Gas Association, for the fourth time in a row, will represent the LP Gas industry at the COP16 Climate Change Conference. This year the conference is taking place in Cancun, Mexico.
Konarka Technologies, a firm located in Lowell, Massachusetts, stated that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has declared that Konarka’s plastic solar cells are more efficient solar cells, which attained an efficiency of 8.3%.
The Lowell, Mass.-based company Konarka declared that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has certified Konarka's plastic solar cells have achievement of an efficiency of 8.3 percent, the highest that NREL has recorded for organic photovoltaic cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2010
Solar3D Inc. has filed a patent application for its new solar cell design and methods of fabrication. "With the filing of this patent, we are poised to create something truly exciting," commented Jim Nelson, chief executive officer at Solar3D, in a press release.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2010
With focus on developing renewable energy projects Solar Park Initiatives announced that it has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with a Canadian company. Solar Park Initiatives is Florida-based and is a solar energy company dedicated to utility and commercial solar park developments in North America.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2010
EDF Nouvelles has declared the launch of two solar photovoltaic power systems in Italy with a total capacity of 26.1 MWp.
The construction work on the Biomass Heating Project at the Boulder County Jail has commenced. This boiler is one of the many energy efficiency improvements that have been implemented at the Boulder Jail.
Experts in Vietnam have revealed that economic growth would be retarded, if the country persists in using hydro and thermal power and does not develop its renewable energy power sources.
A ruling or verdict in favor of permitting geothermal energy to be extracted from protected forest areas is expected to be issued by Jakarta’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. According to Zulkifli Hasan, the Forestry Minister, the majority of the geothermal reserves in Indonesia are concentrated in protected forests in West Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, East Java and West Java regions.
Matla Solar Water Heating (SWH), an R40 million manufacturing facility, has been launched in East London.