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ReneSola Acquires Rights to Develop 22.5MW of Solar Projects in Japan

ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company"), a leading brand and technology provider of energy efficient products, today announced that it has acquired the total project development rights for 22.5 MW of ground-mounted, utility-scale solar projects in Japan.

15 Jul 2015

SPI, GIE Media to Copromote Re|focus Recycling Summit and Paper & Plastic Recycling Conference

SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association and GIE Media, publisher of Recycling Today, announced Tuesday that they would form a partnership to co-promote SPI’s Re|focus Recycling Summit & Expo, which will take place April 25-27, 2016 in Orlando, Fla., and GIE’s Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference (PPRC), which will take place October 14-16, 2015 in Chicago.

15 Jul 2015

MagSOL Labs Introduces Easel Solar Power and Wireless Mobile Charging Station

At MagSOL Labs, they have made it their mission to bring light and hope to places that have none. Our new ESL (*Easel*) is the world's first solar power and wireless (Qi) mobile charging station.

14 Jul 2015

Tabuchi Electric Introduces Residential Solar + Storage Solution at Intersolar North America

Tabuchi Electric, a leading solar inverter manufacturer, today announced it has entered the North American market with the launch of a residential solar + storage solution at Intersolar North America. The company’s EneTelus Intelligent Battery System (EIBS) is a grid-friendly, inverter and storage system that is easy to install and optimized to deliver compelling energy management and cost performance benefits to solar installers and home owners alike.

14 Jul 2015

Amazon Web Services Contracts Iberdrola for 208MW Wind Farm in North Carolina

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that it has contracted with Iberdrola Renewables, LLC to construct and operate a 208 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, North Carolina, called the Amazon Wind Farm US East.

14 Jul 2015

Panel Discussion on 'Ocean Plastic Pollution' at UCLA

Join experts for a panel discussion of plastic pollution, one of the most significant environmental problems facing our oceans, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14 at the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater.

14 Jul 2015

Genovation Cars' High-Performance All-Electric Corvette Prototype Nearing Completion

Genovation Cars is nearing the completion of a prototype high-performance all-electric Corvette called the Genovation Extreme Electric or GXE. Assembly of the GXE will be completed by the end of July, followed by a three-week testing phase. The GXE is based on a 2006 Z06 Corvette.

14 Jul 2015

Intersolar 2015: Innovative Solar Systems Offers Large Scale Shovel Ready Solar Farm Projects

Intersolar 2015 should be an interesting solar trade show and conference due to the fact that Innovative Solar Systems, LLC will be interviewing potential clients for the purchase of their current portfolio of large scale shovel ready solar farm projects, both for current shovel ready projects and also for projects in final stages of approvals.

14 Jul 2015

NCCETC Supports Koolbridge's Advanced Smart Solar and Smart Energy Management Technology

The North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) at North Carolina State University has signed a Five Year Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Koolbridge Solar, Inc., a North Carolina based company, in support of Koolbridge's advanced smart solar and smart energy management technology.

13 Jul 2015

Fraunhofer ISE Starts Spin off to Transfer Kerfless Wafer Technology for PVs into Production

The global market for photovoltaics (PV) is expected to grow by 25% in 2015, with similar increase in the years to follow. The price for PV modules has come down drastically, however, there is still great potential for further reduction in the value chain.

13 Jul 2015

Yingli Supplying 240MW of Solar Panels for Large Hybrid Solar PV and CSP Power Plants in Northern Chile

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world's leading solar panel manufacturers, today announced that it is supplying 240 megawatts (MW) of solar panels for Latin America's two largest hybrid solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) power plants. Both projects, located in northern Chile, will also be equipped with 110 MW of CSP and 17.5 hours of thermal storage each.

13 Jul 2015

Pacific and Indian Oceans Trap Extra Heat from Greenhouse Gases

A new NASA study of ocean temperature measurements shows in recent years extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped in the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

13 Jul 2015

Study Reveals Vulnerability of Bumblebees to a Warming World

While the geographic ranges of many animals are expanding northward in response to climate change, those of North American and European bumblebee species are shrinking, a new study shows.

13 Jul 2015

Just Slight Global Warming has Led to Significant Rise in Global Sea Levels

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

13 Jul 2015

Retail Electricity Rate Design Can Have a Dramatic Impact on Future Distributed Solar PV Deployment

Future distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment levels are highly sensitive to retail electricity rate design, according to a newly released report by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

13 Jul 2015