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QuickWatts Offers Innovative Ground-Mounted Solar Systems

Midcoast Maine company, QuickWatts is making and fixing pre-assembled solar panel arrays for homes, businesses and vacation properties. The company has created three ground-mounted solar systems that can help homeowners save their energy bills by providing clean energy from the sun.

4 Oct 2011

Indie Energy Partners with U.S. Green Building Council to Enhance LEED Certification Process

Indie Energy and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have entered into a technology partnership for energy efficient buildings.

3 Oct 2011

Kansas State University Researchers to Use Renewable Energy to Generate Active Power Distribution System

A study being performed by the Kansas State University researchers utilizing renewable energy to produce a nimble distribution system has the prospects to transform the industry.

28 Sep 2011

Carnegie Mellon University Research Finds Smaller Sized Battery Packs More Economical

A recent research reported by Jeremy J. Michalek of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and his co-authors indicates that plug-in type of electric vehicles with smaller sized battery packs and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) that do not use plug-in facility bring down the impact of carbon discharges and improve oil security with low or without any extra cost over the lifetime of the product.

27 Sep 2011

Pike Research Unveils Report on Usage of Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Pike Research unveils its latest report titled, “Electric Vehicle Geographic Forecasts”, which supplies statistical data and estimates for the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market in the USA at the metropolitan and state levels.

26 Sep 2011

Portuguese Apps Developed to Assist Electric Vehicle Users

The proliferation of electric vehicles confronts two basic challenges currently such as the want of more number of charging locations to charge the vehicles and power holding duration of the charged batteries.

26 Sep 2011

Ormat Technologies Chosen for Kenyan Geothermal Project Upgradation

The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment (OPIC), a development finance institution of the U.S. Government, has offered their approval for $310 million finance for doubling the power generation capability of an existing geothermal power plant located in Kenya.

23 Sep 2011

Australian Clean Technologies Competition Finalists Announced

The AZoCleantech.com Editorial and Video team were proud to be selected to interview the finalists for the Australian Clean Technologies Ideas Competition in Sydney last week.

21 Sep 2011

Innovative Window System from PPG and Pleotint Reduces Energy Consumption in Buildings

PPG Industries and Pleotint, LLC, have agreed to jointly market a commercial window glass system that combines Sunlight Responsive Thermochromic, or SRT(TM), interlayer technology by Pleotint, with SOLARBAN(R) low-emissivity (low-e) glass and other glasses by PPG to control solar heat gain and reduce energy costs in buildings.

19 Sep 2011

Siemens Nacelle Assembly Plant in Hutchinson Awarded LEED Gold Certification

Siemens Energy declared that its new wind turbine nacelle assembly plant opened in Hutchinson, Kansas, has been granted LEED Gold Certification by the US Green Council for its efficient operating systems and eco-responsible design.

16 Sep 2011