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Study Reports Emission Allowances Do not Create Hot Spots of Pollution

A new study titled, "Trading Equity for Efficiency in Environmental Protection? Environmental Justice Effects from the SO2 Allowance Trading Program,” by Evan Ringquist, who works as professor in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, has allayed the fears about the formation of highly polluted ‘hot spots’ in the communities of minority and low-income group due to the trading of emission allowances.

6 Apr 2011

Nissan North America Plans to Erect Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Nissan North America has declared its plans to erect 30 new electric vehicle charging stations that utilize solar power.

6 Apr 2011

SunEdison Completes Solar Facility for University of Maryland Eastern Shore

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), has declared the opening of a new 2.2 MW solar power generation facility installed by SunEdison at the university campus.

6 Apr 2011

Lakeland Electric to Associate with SunEdison to Build Solar Farm

Lakeland Electric, a Lakeland, Florida-based public power utility company, has declared its plans to associate with SunEdison, a Maryland-based company that develops, finances, operates and manages solar power plants, to develop a solar farm at the west end of the runway on Hamilton Road.

6 Apr 2011

Alderville Partners with Silfab to Set Up Ground Mounted PV System

Chief James Marsden of Alderville First Nation and Franco Traverso, Silfab Ontario’s President and CEO, announces that both the organizations have signed an agreement for supporting the development of a 5 MW solar farm that comprises 20,410 solar modules.

6 Apr 2011

Goal Zero Announces the Introduction of a Compact Solar Charging System

Goal Zero, a company that provides portable solar power solutions to power a range of products that utilize USB, AC and DC power sources, has declared the availability of the Guide 10 Adventure Kit, a compact and efficient solar charging facility for use with handheld devices.

5 Apr 2011

Wowjoint Holdings to Supply Wind Tower Hoist for British Green

Wowjoint Holdings, a China-based company that provides tailor-made infrastructure solutions for heavy-duty lifting and carrying machinery, declared that it has entered into a new equipment vending accord with British Green (Tongliao) Wind Power Equipment

5 Apr 2011

Ferro Declares Opening of Solar Test Lab in Taiwan

Ferro has declared the opening of a new laboratory to conduct photovoltaic research and development in Taipei City, Taiwan, located in Neihu Technology Park.

4 Apr 2011

Borrego Solar Completes Solar Installation at Nat L. Eggert Operations Center

The Helix Water District has declared the activation of a new 290 kW solar PV system installed at the Nat L. Eggert Operations Center (OC).

4 Apr 2011

Recent Research Promises Conversion of Waste Oil into Fuel

A recent study submitted by Howard Chase, a Professor of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, revealed a potential recycling method to convert the used and polluted engine oil obtained from the truck and car engines into useable fuel at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

2 Apr 2011