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ASES to Hold National Conference in Conjunction with Seventh Annual Intersolar North America

Intersolar North America, the most attended industry exhibition and conference in North America for solar professionals to exchange information and develop business opportunities in the U.S. solar market, today announced that partner American Solar Energy Society (ASES), the nation's leading association of solar professionals and advocates focused on technological innovation, will hold their annual conference in conjunction with the seventh annual Intersolar North America in San Francisco this July.

23 Jan 2014

Renewable Energy Group Acquires Renewable Chemical Technology Developer, LS9

Renewable Energy Group, Inc.® today announced it has acquired leading renewable chemical technology developer LS9, Inc. for a purchase price of up to $61.5 million, consisting of up front and earnout payments, in stock and cash. Most of the LS9 team, including the entire R&D leadership group, will join the newly named REG Life Sciences, LLC, which will operate out of LS9’s headquarters in South San Francisco, CA.

23 Jan 2014

UT Austin Researchers Develop New Source of Renewable Energy

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar. This yeast produces oils and fats, known as lipids, that can be used in place of petroleum-derived products.

23 Jan 2014

New Battery Recycling Processes to Recover Critical Metals

The CoLaBats initiative works in provide new industrial processes for the recycling of the critical metals Cobalt and Lanthanides and key economic metals Nickel and Lithium, from waste batteries, significantly improving recycling efficiencies and metal purity from existing recovery routes. Tecnalia will operate the pilots in an industrial setting at battery recycling plants and demonstrated to the wider recycling and battery communities.

23 Jan 2014

Zayed Future Energy Prize Committee Honors Fraunhofer Solar Researchers

"We are absolutely delighted that the Zayed Future Energy Prize committee has decided to honor Fraunhofer ISE's more than 30 years of work on sustainable energy supply in this way," says Prof. Eicke R. Weber, director of Fraunhofer ISE. "This generous prize will enable us to offer our re- search in support of countries that haven't yet set out to develop a new energy economy.

23 Jan 2014

Virginia Tech Research Team Creates Sugar Battery with High Energy Density

A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable.

23 Jan 2014

Kuakini Medical Center Signs Energy Efficiency Contract with Metrus

A Hawai'i hospital will save energy and money, thanks to a contract with efficiency services financer Metrus Energy.

23 Jan 2014

Low carbon research centre at Imperial College launch by Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister

Developing low emission vehicles of the future will be the focus of a major collaboration launched today by the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister at Imperial College London.

22 Jan 2014

Global Climate Continues Warming Trend, Say NASA Scientists

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

22 Jan 2014

UC Riverside to Host Solar Energy Conference in Inland Southern California on Feb. 6

The University of California, Riverside will host a conference focused on solar energy in Inland Southern California on Thursday, Feb. 6 at its Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology.

22 Jan 2014

New Energy Achieves Compatibility of SolarWindow Architecture with Electricity-Generating Coatings

New Energy Technologies, Inc. developer of the world’s first-of-its-kind, see-through technology capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, announced today that the Company has achieved compatibility of the SolarWindow™ architecture with a variety of active layer electricity-generating coatings. In organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, the active layer plays a critical role in determining a number of the key properties of the device, including: color, amount of visible light transmission (VLT), wavelength response, and power production.

22 Jan 2014

Xylem Launches New Energy-Efficient Pumps for HVAC and Plumbing Applications at 2014 AHR Expo

Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, launched new energy-efficient pumps for commercial heating and cooling applications at the 2014 Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo) at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

22 Jan 2014

Volvo Construction Equipment Site in Sweden Now Powered Entirely by Renewable Energy

No harmful emission, no contribution to the greenhouse effect. At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s site in Braås, Sweden, completed its journey towards becoming carbon dioxide neutral. It is the first construction equipment production facility in the world to be powered entirely by renewable energy.

22 Jan 2014

Yingli Green Energy Subsidiary Gets Certificate for Contracting Foreign Engineering Projects in China

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") module manufacturer in the world, known as "Yingli Solar", today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited ("Yingli China"), has obtained the Certificate for Contracting Foreign Engineering Projects from governmental authority of People's Republic of China.

22 Jan 2014

Canadian Solar Achieves Highest PTC Ratings for Polysilicon Modules

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that the Company's polysilicon ("PV") modules achieved the highest PTC ratings amongst all major poly module manufacturers.

From Canadian Solar 22 Jan 2014