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Groundbreaking Ceremony for First Wind’s Solar Project in Warren, Massachusetts

First Wind, an independent U.S.-based renewable energy company, was joined today by state and community leaders, Massachusetts energy officials, and renewable energy and solar industry representatives for a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of its 14 megawatt (MW) (AC) solar project in the town of Warren, Mass.

7 Nov 2013

Green Plains Enters Acquisition Deal for BioFuel Energy’s Two Ethanol Plants

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two ethanol plants of BioFuel Energy Corp. ("BIOF") from an entity composed of its lender group. The ethanol plants are located in Wood River, NE and Fairmont, MN. BIOF had previously agreed to transfer the ethanol plants to the lender group entity pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure.

7 Nov 2013

New Research on Tethered Undersea Kites for Electricity Generation from Tides and Currents

Worcester, Mass. – As the world looks for new ways to wean itself from fossil fuels, a new answer may be emerging: underwater kites.

7 Nov 2013

Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Partner to Develop 10 MW Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant

Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group have signed a contract to start design of a 10-megawatt Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant, which, when complete, will be the largest OTEC project to date.

From Lockheed Martin 31 Oct 2013

Liberty Power to Donate Renewable Energy Certificates to 2013 NMSDC Event

Liberty Power, the nation's largest independent retail electric supplier, announced today that it will donate Green-e Energy Certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match 100 percent of the estimated electricity consumption at the 2013 National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Conference and Business Opportunity Fair.

28 Oct 2013

ABB to Supply Sub-Sea AC Link for Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a significant order from the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT to supply an AC (alternating current) power transmission link connecting Sandbank, an offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, to the HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station SylWin alpha.

23 Oct 2013

CNES Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology Aims to Solve Technological Problems in Clean Energy

In the past two years, the price of solar panels has dropped about 80 percent. Yet electricity from solar panels is still too expensive to compete with power from fossil fuels because the cost of all the other components and activities involved in installation— hardware, labor, permitting and inspection — hasn’t seen a comparable decline.

21 Oct 2013

Number of Patents for Renewable-energy Technologies Increases Significantly

The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). The study shows that investments in research and development, as well as in the growth of markets for these products, have helped to spur this dramatic growth in innovation.

11 Oct 2013

Shaw Industries Installs SolarWorld Solar Panels to Power its Carpet-tile Manufacturing Plant

About 1 megawatt of solar panels from SolarWorld, the largest U.S. manufacturer of solar technology for more than 35 years, soon will go live atop a carpet-tile manufacturing plant of Shaw Industries Group Inc. (Shaw) in Cartersville, Ga., located about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta.

11 Oct 2013

JinkoSolar Enters Agreement with Lightsource Renewable Energy

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company"), a global leader in the solar PV industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK's largest solar energy generator and asset operator, to supply 18.5MWp of solar PV modules for a solar farm project located in the United Kingdom.

5 Oct 2013