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Mar 5, 2010 — Jad Mouawad reports in The New York Times that FPL Group “is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.  Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the … utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors and thousands of steel pylons that stretch as far [...]

Mar 3, 2010 – Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (NASDAQ: ENER), the leading global manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building integrated and commercial rooftop markets, announced it has been selected by ProLogis and Portland General Electric (PGE) to deliver 2.4MWp of UNI-SOLAR® laminates for installation on seven ProLogis distribution warehouses in [...]

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 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 & [...]

Jan 28, 2010 – Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (NASDAQ: ENER) and Enfinity Corporation announced plans to collaborate on the development of a 10MW portfolio of rooftop solar installations in Ontario, Canada.
ECD and Enfinity will partner to co-develop a series of rooftop solar projects throughout Ontario, Canada under the province’s new feed-in-tariff program. The companies [...]

Jan 12, 2010 – Beginning in 2010, intelligent electric meters from Siemens will make buying electricity more transparent for Austrian customers and help to reduce consumption.  The company is installing 100,000 AMIS meters in Upper Austria for the utility Energie AG. AMIS (Automated Metering and Information System) sends time-resolved usage data to the utility and [...]

Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting?  If so, please provide your comments here.  USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world.  People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]

Nov 26, 2009 – Get the details of Obama’s visit to Copenhagen in John M. Broder’s article in The New York Times.

Nov 22, 2009 -  Here is a how-to article by Elizabeth A. Harris in The New York  Times.  Thirty-nine percent of New York City’s greenhouse gases come from residential buildings. And there are New Yorkers who have looked hard at their homes, in buildings of all ages and sizes, and found ways to [...]

Nov 19, 2009 -  The New York Times published a full section titled “Business of Grren” Nov 19, 2009.   The following articles are included.  Click on the title to go to The New York Times article.  “Making Renewables Reliable“, “Storm Over the Chamber“, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last“, “Companies Call Government Incentives [...]

Nov 19, 2009 – SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced the completion of a 1-megawatt solar power rooftop system on three buildings at Agilent’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. This is SunPower’s second project with Agilent, following the [...]

 
 
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North America’s largest business to business solar industry event
October 27 – 29, 2009 in Anaheim, California
900+ exhibitors and an exhibit hall that includes all solar technologies: PV, CSP, solar hot water, solar heating and cooling and solar pool heating
25,000 + Attendees: sellers, buyers and stakeholders including manufacturers, integrators, installers, utilities, investors, builders, architects, large [...]

Greenbuild 2009 Residential Summit
 
The Greenbuild Residential Summit is a unique event that brings together leaders in the residential green building industry for two days of information sessions, networking, and sharing of best practices.
 
This year’s multi-day Summit will feature targeted educational tracks, and an opening general session, “Greening Our New Housing Stock: A Discussion Across Multiple [...]

Britain is requiring home builders to design super-efficient houses that use only clean power and produce no net carbon. All new homes must be zero-carbon by 2016.
The construction industry will have to approach development in a fundamentally new way, planning  from the earliest stages the use of solar panels, communitywide heat-sharing systems and other energy saving items.  [...]

Apr 28, 2009– First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) announced today that it will supply photovoltaic (PV) modules to Solar Shop Australia, Pty Ltd. (Solar Shop), for a 1 MW DC rooftop project.  The solar power system, installed on 6 separate buildings at the Adelaide Showground in South Australia, will be the largest PV installation in [...]