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DuPont Opens Technical Center in China for the Development of Solar Electricity Panels

DuPont today opened a photovoltaic (PV) technical center at its China global R&D Center in Shanghai to support material developments for the fast growing crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar energy market. DuPont expects to nearly triple its annual photovoltaic sales to more than $1 billion in 2012

4 May 2009

University of South Carolina Selected for Alternative Energy Research Center

The University of South Carolina has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to house a research center that is expected to bring $12.5 million in federal funding, the largest award in the university's history, to a team of internationally recognized energy researchers in the College of Engineering and Computing

4 May 2009

Sustainable Building Design WIth Advanced Architectural Glass and Metal Roof Coatings

PPG Industries offers architects a single, comprehensive resource for designing sustainable building envelopes through advanced architectural glasses and metal roof coatings

4 May 2009

Building Integrated Photovoltaic Solar Power Coming From Technal

Hydro's Technal brand is bringing new product concepts to the Spanish building systems market, and moving forward in the development of building-integrated photovoltaic solutions that can conserve energy and also produce energy

3 May 2009

Energy Frontier Research Center For Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

Arizona State University to Get New Energy Frontier Research Center

Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Speak at Solar Energy Summit

In partnership with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, SolarTech, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Solar Energy Industries Association announce the participation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as an honorary guest speaker at their inaugural Summit

29 Apr 2009

Biofuel Development To Benefit From Lignocellulose Development Grant

Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State

29 Apr 2009

Greenhouse Gas Storage and Revolutionary Solar Cells to be Developed With New Grants

With two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. Department of Energy

29 Apr 2009