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Saving Energy and Reducing Carbon Footprint

Soaring gas prices, a looming recession, and higher energy bills all add more pressure to businesses to effectively make money. However, Visionsoft is doing their part to help these businesses to save energy while positively affecting their bottom line.

2 Apr 2008

The Energy Efficiency Block Grant Program

The National League of Cities (NLC) today presented key Senators with the signatures of nearly 400 local officials from 46 states in support of funding for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.

2 Apr 2008

LDK Solar Announces Ten-Year Wafer Supply Agreement

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a ten-year contract which is a blend of "Take or Pay" linked with market-based pricing to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to India-based Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Limited (MBPV), a subsidiary of Moser Baer India Limited (MBI).

2 Apr 2008

Crown Awarded State Grant to Conduct Fuel Cell Research

Crown Equipment Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of lift trucks, is committed to advancing hydrogen fuel cell technology. The company was recently awarded nearly $1 million in grant money from the state of Ohio to conduct fuel cell research.

2 Apr 2008

Horizon Wind Energy Signs Repeat Order for Wind Turbines

Horizon Wind Energy, owned by Energias de Portugal (EDP), announced the signing of a repeat order with Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation (SWECO), a step-down subsidiary of Suzlon Energy Limited, India, for 200 MW of wind turbine capacity.

2 Apr 2008

New Generation Biofuels Demonstrates Biofuel Technology in Power Generation

New Generation Biofuels Inc. announced today that it has entered into a Test Burn Agreement with FirstEnergy Corp. to demonstrate its proprietary biofuel technology in utility scale power generation applications.

2 Apr 2008

New Customer Financing Eliminates High-Cost Barriers to Solar Installations

SolarCity, a leading provider of solar energy systems, today announced a new financing program backed by Morgan Stanley that will change the way residential solar is purchased.

2 Apr 2008

Investing in Energy Efficiency can Increase Cash Flows and Reduce Carbon Footprints

Investing in energy efficiency can increase U.S. businesses' cash flows by $66 billion annually and reduce carbon footprints by 30 percent, according to the new book "Energy Budgets at Risk (EBaR) (R): A Risk Management Approach to Energy Purchase and Efficiency Choices," published by John Wiley and Sons.

2 Apr 2008

EMCORE Corporation Receives $4.6 Million Follow-on Order

EMCORE Corporation a leading provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber-optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, announced today that it has been awarded a $4.6 million follow-on production order for solar cell receiver assemblies from Concentration Solar la Mancha of Manzanares (Ciudad Real), Spain.

2 Apr 2008

IFQC Ranks Countries Based on Sulfur Limits in Gasoline

The U.S. placed ninth overall in the recent global ranking of countries based on sulfur limits in their national clean gasoline standards.

2 Apr 2008

Leading Utilizer of Renewable Energy Among U.S. Universities

UC San Diego, a world leader in climate change research, is taking steps to become the leading utilizer of renewable energy among U.S. universities within the next few years.

2 Apr 2008

World's First Completely Green Sleep System

From packaging to bed frame and mattress materials, FloBeds of Fort Bragg, California has created the world's first completely green sleep system.

2 Apr 2008

Trina Solar Signs Long-Term Polysilicon Supply Agreement

Trina Solar Limited, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, founded in 1997, today announced that the Company has signed a long-term polysilicon supply agreement with a subsidiary of GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Ltd.

2 Apr 2008

ET Solar Announces a 6.6MW Module Sales Contract

ET Solar Group Corp., a Nanjing-based integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products including ingot, wafer, module, and state-of-the-art dual-axis tracking systems with manufacturing facilities located in Taizhou, China, announced today a 6.6MW module sales contract with a leading Italian energy equipment provider.

2 Apr 2008