Feb 27, 2010 – Congratulations to the Palm Beach Zoo for building the first and only Gold Certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) animal hospital in the nation. A new 80-panel solar installation covers the green facility. It will supply 13 percent of the building’s energy use with clean energy from the sun. [...]
Feb 25, 2010 – Todd Woody reports in The New York Times, “A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply affordable and relatively clean electricity. Google, Bank of America, Wal-Mart and other large corporations have been testing the devices, which will be formally introduced [...]
Feb 25, 2010 – Siemens Energy has acquired a minority stake in Britain’s Marine Current Turbines, a pioneer in the design and development of tidal current energy turbines. With the acquisition of a stake of just below 10 Percent in Marine Current Turbines, which is based in Bristol, England, Siemens is entering a new market [...]
Feb 11, 2010 – Siemens Technologies took first place in 2 categories of the first Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment awarded by Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry and the Federation of German Industries (BDI). German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and BDI Director General Werner Schnappauf presented the awards – totaling €125,000 – to winners in [...]
Feb 24, 2010 – MetLife and John Hancock Financial Services will finance the construction and third-party ownership of a 19-mw (AC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant that SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) is contracted to build for Xcel Energy in Colorado’s Alamosa County, the companies announced today. Construction on the plant, which will be the [...]
Feb 22, 2010 - The market for renewable distributable energy is growing, as is the demand for a source of pure natural spring water from uncontaminated glacial aquifiers. This is an opportunity for the right company. Pure glacial water, wind turbine power and hydro power are a few of the opportunities this undivided track of [...]
Feb 22, 2010 – XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB:XSNX), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, updates its shareholders on the shrinking margins of silicon wafer manufactures and its varying repercussions on the entire photovoltaic (PV) industry.
The solar industry overall began to experience increased demand again in the fourth quarter 2009, [...]
Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter Morton [Who is he?]. The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]
Cleantech Forum XXVII – Paris, France
April 26-28, 2010
Themed “Towards a new normal: taking resource efficiency to scale in the 2010s,” Cleantech Forum XXVII Paris at Le Méridien Etoile over April 26-28th, 2010 will host 500 clean technology leaders, including investors, corporations, policy-makers, entrepreneurs and CEOs from around Europe – and [...]
Feb 15, 2010 – Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss report in The New York Times, that “If electric cars have any future in the United States, San Francisco may be the city where they arrive first.
The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December when Nissan introduces the five-passenger Leaf. The [...]
Feb 10, 2010 – In the few months that have passed since the contracts were signed for The EV Project (US Department of Energy Grant DE-EE0002194) the forward momentum has been constant as we ramp up the largest–ever rollout of electric vehicle infrastructure. Through this five-state, 11-city pilot we are essentially creating five laboratories in [...]
Feb 10, 2010 – SolarWorld AG is again the winner of a quality study conducted by the Photon trade magazine. In the 2009 long-term test, SolarWorld’s solar power modules generated more electricity than all competitive products. In comparison with other modules, the SolarWorld modules produced up to 12% more power. On [...]
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