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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Installs Inline Sputtering Systems for CIGS & CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cell Production

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES has successfully taken its product family of vacuum coating systems for use in solar technology to the next development level and has successfully introduced and installed inline sputtering system for the requirements in the photovoltaic industry for CIGS & CdTe thin-film solar cell production as well as tasks for the manufacturing of heterojunction cells.

29 Jun 2015

Conn Center-Integro Earth Fuels Partnership to Commercialize NuCoal Made from Sustainable Wood Waste

The University of Louisville Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research has formed a partnership with a South Carolina company to accelerate commercialization of a coal-like product made from wood and biomass materials.

27 Jun 2015

Atlantic Power Closes Sale of its Wind Portfolio to SunEdison Affiliate

Atlantic Power Corporation ("Atlantic Power" or the "Company") announced today that it has completed the previously disclosed sale of its wind portfolio to an affiliate of SunEdison, Inc. (NYSE: SUNE) for cash proceeds of approximately $347 million, net of closing adjustments. The wind portfolio consisted of five operating wind projects in Idaho and Oklahoma with a net ownership by Atlantic Power of 521 megawatts.

27 Jun 2015

New Study Shows Corals Can Adapt to Global Warming

Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Oregon State University have found. The discovery has implications for many reefs now threatened by global warming and shows for the first time that mixing and matching corals from different latitudes may boost reef survival.

27 Jun 2015

EDF Renewable Energy Places Turbine Order with Vestas for 150MW Salt Fork Wind Project in Texas

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) has placed a firm order with Vestas Wind Systems A/S to supply the 150 megawatt (MW) Salt Fork Wind Project in Texas. The order marks the first draw on the 1,000 MW Master Supply Agreement (MSA) announced in December 2014. Delivery of the 75 V100-2.0 MW is scheduled for third quarter 2016.

27 Jun 2015

TerraForm Power Announces Acquisition of 9MW Ownership Stake from Duke Energy’s Solar Plant Portfolio

TerraForm Power, Inc., an owner and operator of clean energy power plants, today announced the acquisition of a 9 MW net ownership stake in a portfolio of operating distributed solar power plants from Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, the nation's largest electric power holding company.

27 Jun 2015

Winners of SEAD Global Efficiency Medal Competition for Super-Efficient Household LED Light Bulbs Announced

The Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative, an international collaboration of 17 member economies and an initiative under the Clean Energy Ministerial, today announced the winners of its Global Efficiency Medal competition for super-efficient household LED light bulbs. Manufacturers of winning products were honored at an awards ceremony at the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris, France.

26 Jun 2015

Microvi-ABPDU Collaboration Demonstrates Breakthrough Improvements to Biological Ethanol Production

Microvi Biotechnologies, a leading innovator of biocatalytic processes, working with the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has demonstrated breakthrough improvements to biological ethanol production.

26 Jun 2015

Sybac Acquires 40MW of Yingli Solar Panels for Two Honduras Power Plants

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited ("Yingli"), one of the world's leading solar panel manufacturers, today announced that it will supply 40 megawatts (MW) of solar panels to Sybac Solar, a major global solar integrator, for two power plants in Honduras: the Pacific Solar project, located in Nacaome, and the La Manzanilla y Las Lajas project, located in Choluteca.

26 Jun 2015

SunEdison to Deliver Solar Plus Storage System to Municipal Utility Silicon Valley Power

SunEdison, Inc., the world's largest renewable energy development company, and Green Charge Networks, the largest provider of commercial energy storage in the U.S., today announced that they have teamed up to deliver a solar plus storage system to the municipal utility Silicon Valley Power. This project is part of an ongoing strategic partnership between SunEdison and Green Charge Networks to deliver additional electricity savings to commercial and municipal customers throughout Calif.

26 Jun 2015

DONG Energy to Construct Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm Off Britain’s East Coast

DONG Energy has decided to construct Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, located in the Greater Wash area, approximately 27 km off the east coast of Britain.

26 Jun 2015

Hilton Head Launches Beer in High-Recycled Novelis Beverage Cans

Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, and Hilton Head Brewing Company today announced the launch of Hilton Head Brewing Company beer in aluminum cans, made from Novelis evercanTM – the world’s first and only certified high-recycled content aluminum can sheet.

25 Jun 2015

First Solar to Supply High Performance PV Modules for 200MW Solar Park in Dubai

First Solar, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to supply its high performance photovoltaic (PV) modules to power the 200 megawatt (MW)AC second phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

25 Jun 2015

Canadian Solar Closes Sale of LunarLight 10MW AC Solar Power Plant to BluEarth Subsidiary

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., completed the sale of LunarLight, a 10 megawatt AC solar power plant to a subsidiary of BluEarth Renewables Inc.

From Canadian Solar 25 Jun 2015

Stanford Researchers Develop Water Splitter for Production of Clean-Burning Hydrogen Fuel

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a cheap water splitter with a single catalyst to separate hydrogen and oxygen continuously. The device could be potentially used as a renewable source of clean-burning hydrogen fuel for industrial and transportation applications.

25 Jun 2015