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Chevron Energy Solutions Completes Solar Installations for East Side Union High School District

Chevron Energy Solutions, a company that develops and constructs renewable energy projects, has declared the conclusion of the K-12 solar program it undertook with East Side Union High School District.

26 May 2011

UOP Supplies Green Jet Fuel for U.S. Air Force Aircraft Demo

UOP, a Honeywell company, has supplied the green jet fuel to power two F-16 aircrafts of the U.S. Air force in a Thunderbirds demo held at the Joint Base, Andrews, Md. During a Joint Services Open House held on 20th and 21st May, two Thunderbird aircrafts flew utilizing a 50/50 mix of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel produced using camelina-based biofuel and petroleum-based jet fuel.

26 May 2011

Tioga Energy to Install Solar Facility for Union County, New Jersey

Tioga Energy, a supplier of clean renewable energy to government, commercial and not-for-profit organizations, declared that it has firmed-up accords with a number of government agencies located in Union County, New Jersey for the installation and development of 3.4 MW worth solar power systems.

26 May 2011

Stellar Solar Utilizes Solar Powered Car to Induce Solar Power Installations

Michael Powers, Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Co-founder of Stellar Solar has bought a new 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car that is being charged utilizing the power generated by a 3.5 kW solar power system installed at his residence.

26 May 2011

Petra Solar Introduces SunWave Energy Solutions for Global Markets

Petra Solar, a clean technology company, based at South Plainfield, NJ, has declared the expansion of its SunWave Energy Solutions in global markets.

26 May 2011

SolarCraft Installs Solar Electric Panels at Meadow Club in California

SolarCraft, based in Sonoma and Novato, has completed the installation of solar electric panels at the Meadow Club in Fairfax, CA.

25 May 2011

University of Missouri Engineer Introduces Solar Product to Harvest More Solar Power

Collecting the available solar light efficiently is a problem with most of the solar panels supplied in the markets today. A majority of them harvest only 20% of the available light.

25 May 2011

Empa Scientists Improve Conversion Efficiency of CIGS Solar Cells

A team of scientists led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further improved the power conversion capabilities of flexible solar cells manufactured utilizing copper indium gallium (di)selenide or CIGS.

25 May 2011

A Project Discovers Water Conservation Leads to Energy Conservation

A new project report titled, ‘Drops of Energy: Conserving Urban Water in California to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,’ emphasizes the need for saving water to save energy and to cut down green house gas discharges.

25 May 2011

UC San Diego Receives Grant to Improve Clean Energy Usage in California

The Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) of the California Energy Commission has declared a grant of $1.4 million for UC San Diego to speedup the growth and usage of green renewable energy in California.

25 May 2011