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Cabot Named as a Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes Leader

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) today announced it was named to the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (CII) as a Maplecroft CII Benchmark and a Maplecroft CII Leader.

28 Oct 2010

DuPont Committed to Providing Sustainable Solutions to Health Care, Food and Wire Cabling Industries

DuPont Performance Polymers is committed to providing sustainable and innovative solutions based on its high performance polymers and elastomers. This is reflected by the recent commercialization of products for the health care and food industries, to be presented at K 2010.

28 Oct 2010

Dupont Polymers Improve Sustainablility and Efficiency of Automobiles

Innovative materials and expert application development, aimed at enhancing the performance of vehicle systems, improving their sustainability and reducing their total cost, form the forefront of DuPont Performance Polymers in the automotive sector.

28 Oct 2010

Spire Wins IDIQ Contract from Federal Prisons Industries

Spire, a provider of production lines and capital equipment to PV modules manufacturers, announced that it has received an IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity) contract to provide integrator services for solar PV systems, from Federal Prisons Industries.

28 Oct 2010

Solimpeks PVT Collectors Supply Hot Water to Children's Home

Generating heat and electricity: Since May 2010, 48 Volther PVT collectors by Turkish manufacturer Solimpeks have both supplied hot water to a children's home in Surrey County, Great Britain, and fed solar electricity into the local energy grid. According to the manufacturer, the system's payback period is 12 years, thanks to the Feed-in Tariff scheme for solar electricity.

28 Oct 2010

Neo Solar Power Inks Deal with GCL to Purchase Solar Wafers

Neo Solar Power (NSP), a solar cell manufacturer based in Taiwan, has inked a contract to procure solar wafers from GCL-Poly Energy Holdings. GCL is a provider of polysilicon products in China. The purchase agreement is a bid to secure a constant production material supply to NSP.

28 Oct 2010

Solar Trust to Develop Solar-Thermal Power Project in California

Solar Trust of America, a collaboration of Ferrostaal and Solar Millenium, will develop a 1000 MW solar-thermal power assignment near the city of Blythe located in Southern California. The US Government has granted an approval for the multi-billion dollar project to be developed.

28 Oct 2010

Research Report on Japanese Solar Industry

A new market research report has been released on the solar photovoltaic industry in Japan. The report named as Solar Photovoltaic Power Market Outlook in Japan to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Major Power Plants, Key Companies and Regulations is available in the website of Research and Markets.

28 Oct 2010

Comprehensive Report on Solar Power Systems

Research and Markets has released a new market report titled ‘Innovative Solar Power Initiatives and Business Models –2nd Edition’.

28 Oct 2010

2010 Clean Tech Event Features Latest Innovations in Biofuel, Solar and Wind Technologies

The 2010 Clean Tech Showcase, which was recently held at Sacramento State, featured latest advancements in biofuel, solar and wind technologies. The event was organized by CleanStar, a part of Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA).

28 Oct 2010

SNC-Lavalin Contracted to Construct Waneta Hydropower Expansion

SNC-Lavalin, an Engineering and construction company, has succeeded in getting the $587 million contract to construct the Waneta Expansion.

28 Oct 2010

Independent Energy Solutions to Install Solar PV System for GSA

Independent Energy Solutions (IES), a solar energy developing and building company, made it known that it has signed a contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to formulate and construct a 914 kW solar PV system.

28 Oct 2010

Department of Ecology Permits Biomass Project of Port Townsend Paper

The State Department of Ecology has provided the go-ahead signal to Port Townsend Paper to build an electric power generating facility next to its mill. In May this year, the company had made an application seeking permission from the Department of Ecology to upgrade its power boiler and to erect a steam turbine.

28 Oct 2010

Chevron Energy Solutions Completes Solar Installation for Santa Monica College

Chevron Energy Solutions, a division of Chevron, has completed the 408 kW solar project for the Santa Monica College. The dedication ceremony of the solar project is proposed to be held on 29th of October.

28 Oct 2010

KYOCERA Solar Modules to Power Remote Mongolian Villages

Kyocera has installed two solar energy systems totaling 305.1 kW in Mongolia under the World Bank sponsored Renewable Energy for Rural Access Project.

28 Oct 2010