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Kirkwood Community College Gets Permission for Wind Turbine Installation from City Council

The Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids will get its new 417-foot tall wind turbine soon.

14 Feb 2011

Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy to Invest for Upgrading Ludington Hydropower Plant

Utility companies, Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy, have proposed to invest about $40 million each in a year over the next 10 years to upgrade the output of the Michigan-based Ludington pumped storage hydropower plant from 1,872 MW to 2,172 MW.

14 Feb 2011

Schott Solar Receives 20 MW Order for Thin Film Solar Modules from an Indian Company

Schott Solar, a fully owned subsidiary of Schott, a German-based producer of solar modules and components, declared that it has received a major order for its thin-film technology solar modules from Premier Solar Systems, an India-based company.

14 Feb 2011

Materia to Partner with California Institute of Technology in e Bio-inspired Wind Energy Center Grant

Materia, a Pasadena, California-based company, declared that it will function as an industrial partner to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in a $6 million grant granted to Caltech.

14 Feb 2011

Magnolia Solar Makes Multiple Number of Patent Filings Related to Thin Film Solar Cell Technologies

Magnolia Solar declared that its fully owned subsidiary company with the similar name Magnolia Solar has finished the initial requirements of its intellectual property protection plan.

14 Feb 2011

Siemens Climate Award 2010 Presented to Risø National Laboratory Scientist

Trine Klemensø, a young scientist and Project Manager of a vital project at the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, has been chosen for the Siemens Climate Awarded 2010 for his work in fuel cells.

14 Feb 2011

New Solar Fuels Lab Opened by NTU

The researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) would now be able to recreate an energy process that occurs in plants for producing fuel from sunlight and water.

14 Feb 2011

UC Berkeley Engineers Develop Innovative Technique for Growing Nanolasers Directly on Silicon Surface

Engineers working at the Berkeley, University of California, have developed a process whereby nanolasers could be grown directly on a silicon surface.

14 Feb 2011

INM Scientists Develop CIGS Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency

Researchers at the INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials have been able to develop a barrier layer that would separate the metal carrier from the absorber film, leading to increased efficiency for the CIGS Solar Cells, which are metal- based.

14 Feb 2011

Centrotec to Acquire Solar23

Centrotec Sustainable, a company based in Brilon in Germany, has declared that its subsidiary company, Ubbink, has purchased a 60% share in Solar23. Solar23 aims at developing the African solar PV and solar thermal projects like off-grid solar solutions.

14 Feb 2011