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Annual China Cleantech Investor Summit 2010 to be Held in September 2010

On September 13-14, 2010, the Annual China Cleantech Investor Summit 2010 will be held in Shanghai, China.

28 Jun 2010

Applied Materials Survey Indicates Americans Want More Solar Power

A new Summer Solstice Survey has revealed that Americans believe in solar technology.

28 Jun 2010

NREL Partners with Solarmer Energy on Plastic Solar Cells’ Life Expansion

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of the US Department of Energy has partnered with Solarmer Energy for signing a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) in terms of collaborating for improving the lifetime of plastic solar cells that seems to be a new kind of solar conversion technology that is quite promising.

28 Jun 2010

NRG Solar to Purchase Solar Development Projects of US Solar

NRG Solar has teamed up with US Solar in the process of acquiring its solar development portfolio, for projects on nine sites in the states of Arizona and California. The development projects are in the size range of 20 MW to 99 MW, having the potential to become operational sometime between the years 2011 and 2013.

28 Jun 2010

Kalahari GreenTech Unveils Solar Collector Details

Kalahari GreenTech has unveiled its solar collector details. Wind as well as solar have been fast becoming leading renewable energy sources. The company designs, produces and also provides solar collectors, wind turbines and other forms of sustainable energy technologies.

28 Jun 2010

Ascent Solar Bags DARPA Contract for Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) Program

Ascent Solar Technologies has bagged the Darpa Contract for its PhotoVoltaics Program. Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded the multi million dollar contract to Ascent Solar for its low cost, high efficiency portable photovoltaics program.

28 Jun 2010

Thin Films to Boost Fuel Cell Efficiency

A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material — less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair — could lead to improved ways of studying the behavior of electrodes and perhaps ultimately to improvements in the rate of power production from one type of fuel cell, according to a report published this week.

27 Jun 2010

China Takes the Lead in Bioethanol Patent Generation

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority on chemical information, reports that in 2009, China surpassed all other countries in the production of bioethanol patents, emerging as the global leader in the commercialization of bioethanol research.

27 Jun 2010

New Generation Biofuels to Run Long Term Biofuels Boiler Test in Baltimore

Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. today announced that the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners has approved a long term boiler test and evaluation of the Company's proprietary biofuel in two of Baltimore City's public schools over a one year period.

27 Jun 2010

Honeywell Wins Contract to Develop Biofuels for Gas Turbine Engines

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop mature technology for Fuel Burn Reduction and test aviation biofuels for use in Honeywell Gas Turbine Engines.

27 Jun 2010

Mistaya Engineering and Second Wind Partner to Integrate the Windographer Analysis Software

Mistaya Engineering and Second Wind have partnered to integrate the Windographer analysis software of Mistaya Engineering and the wind data collection technology of Second Wind into a solution for helping energy companies select and evaluate the most productive locations for installing their wind turbines.

25 Jun 2010

Yingli Green Energy Americas Partners with DC Power to Target Solar Installations

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited has announced that one of its subsidiaries Yingli Green Energy Americas, Inc. has inked a PV module supply contract with DC Power Systems till the close of 2010.

25 Jun 2010

SG Biofuels appoints New Executives to Expand Operations

SG Biofuels has appointed Jeff (J.D.) Davids as its new Chief Financial Officer and Eric Mathur as the company’s new Vice President in charge of Molecular Agronomics & Scientific Affairs. SG Biofuels is an agricultural biotechnology firm that specializes in developing Jatropha as a sustainable, low-cost source of oil.

25 Jun 2010

ALSTOM ECO 100 Wind Turbine from ALSTOM

The wide bodied nacelle incorporated in the wind turbine comprises a central nacelle, two housings on the sides and a hub and allows easy access for maintenance. The electrical yaw and pitch control incorporated in this wind turbine maintains the rotor speed stably and cuts off the rotation during excessive winds.

25 Jun 2010

G128-4.5 MW Wind Turbine from Gamesa

The two sectional blade utilized in the wind turbine measuring a total of 62.50 m in length has an inboard section measuring 30.50 m and an outboard section measuring 32.00 m in length. The rotor of the wind turbine measures 128 m in diameter and offers a swept area of 12,868 m².

25 Jun 2010