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Carbon Dioxide-Caused Warming Exceeds Amount of Heat Released by Combustion-Caused Warming

The heat generated by burning a fossil fuel is surpassed within a few months by the warming caused by the release of its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new work from Carnegie's Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The release of CO2 into the atmosphere contributes to the trapping of heat that would otherwise be emitted into outer space.

3 Jun 2015

Scaled-Up Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch Device May Help Achieve Sustainable Fusion Reaction

Producing reliable fusion energy -- the same process that powers the sun -- has long been a holy grail of scientists here on Earth. It releases no greenhouse gases, can be fueled by elements found in seawater and produces no long-lived nuclear waste.

3 Jun 2015

TI Receives LEED Gold Certification for Sugar Land Design Center in Texas

Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated today announced the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification to TI's new design center in Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston.

3 Jun 2015

Blue Mountain Power Acquired by Baseload Clean Energy Partners

Baseload Clean Energy Partners (BCEP), a yieldco owned and operated by AltaRock Energy, is announcing the acquisition of Blue Mountain Power LLC. Located in northern Nevada, Blue Mountain Power owns the 49.5 MW Faulkner 1 geothermal power plant supplying electricity to Nevada’s public utility, NV Energy.

3 Jun 2015

Fraunhofer Researchers Develop Contact System for Rapid Recharging of Electric Buses

Electric buses are an eco-friendly alternative to diesel. With several project partners, Fraunhofer researchers have developed a concept to swiftly recharge buses while they operate routes. System testing in Dresden has been underway since November last year.

2 Jun 2015

DEPCOM Power Partners with Southern Power to Serve as EPC Firm on Pawpaw Solar Facility

DEPCOM Power today announced it has reached an agreement to serve as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm on the Pawpaw Solar Facility with Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company.

2 Jun 2015

Trina Solar Provides its IBC Cells and Modules for Constructing OSU's Solar Car

Trina Solar Limited ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a global leader in photovoltaic ("PV") modules, solutions, and services, is pleased to announce that it provided Osaka Sangyo University ("OSU") with its newly developed Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) cells and modules for OSU's Solar Car, the "OSU-Model-S".

2 Jun 2015

SPI Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Certain Assets of Energiebau Solar Power

Solar Power, Inc. ("SPI"), a vertically-integrated photovoltaic ("PV") project developer, today announced that a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Energiebau Solar Power GmbH ("Energiebau"), named the "Top PV Wholesale Supplier" for 2012, 2013 and 2014 by the independent market research institute, EuPD Research.

2 Jun 2015

CHS Acquires Renewable Ethanol Plant with Annual Ethanol Production of 125 million gallons from Patriot

CHS Inc., North America's leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company, announced today it has acquired the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant from Patriot Holdings, LLC, Annawan, Ill.

2 Jun 2015

Southern Power Acquires 30MW Pawpaw Solar Facility from Longview Solar

Building on one of the nation's largest renewable energy portfolios, Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power has announced the acquisition of the Pawpaw Solar Facility – a 30-megawatt (MW) project – from Longview Solar LLC. With the addition of the company's fifth solar acquisition in Georgia, Southern Power is developing a total of 385 MW of solar generation in the state.

2 Jun 2015

First Site of Mito Solar Project in Japan Becomes Fully Operational

Etrion Corporation (“Etrion” or the “Company”), a solar independent power producer, today announced that the first site of the Mito solar project in Japan has been connected to the grid and is fully operational. Mito is a 9.3 megawatt (“MW”) utility-scale solar photovoltaic (“PV”) power project including five sites in the Ibaraki Prefecture with staggered connection dates expected through August 2015.

1 Jun 2015

Toshiba Receives Supply Order for Large-Scale Battery Energy Storage System

Toshiba Corporation has received an order to supply a large scale battery energy storage system (BESS) for Tohoku Electric Power Company's "Minami-Soma Substation Project to Verify the Improvement of Supply-demand Balance With Large-capacity Power Storage Systems" [1] . Toshiba will supply a 40MW-40MWh lithium-ion BESS, Japan's largest[2], integrating an array of SCiBTM lithium-ion batteries. Construction of the system began today and the start of operation is scheduled for the end of February 2016.

1 Jun 2015

Suntech to Provide 63MW of Solar Panels to Gunkul Engineering

Suntech has announced today that it will supply approximately 63 megawatts (MW) of solar panels to 8 separate Gunkul Engineering projects being constructed across Thailand. The projects are expected to be grid connected and operational by the end of 2015.

From Suntech 1 Jun 2015

GE to Supply President Container Group with New 2MW Ground-Mounted Solar Installation

GE’s renewable energy business today announced it will supply President Container Group (PCG), a manufacturer of corrugated shipping containers and point-of-purchase displays, with a new 2 MW ground-mounted solar installation outside its factory in Middletown, NY. The GE solar solution is expected to provide approximately 25 percent of PCG’s future energy needs.

1 Jun 2015

Ubiquitous Energy to Debut its Award-Winning ClearView Power Solar Technology at Display Week 2015

Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., a leader in transparent photovoltaics, will debut its award-winning ClearView Power™ technology next week at Display Week 2015, the Society for Information Display's international symposium and exhibition, at the San Jose Convention Center.

30 May 2015