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Recharge Solutions Installs EV Charging System at Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology has installed the EV charging system developed by Recharge Solutions International (RSI). The installation is part of the pilot project at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, which was started on December 5.

12 Dec 2011

Bentek Solar Ships Zone Current Monitoring Systems

Bentek Solar has deployed 250 MW of its Bentek Zone current monitoring systems in North America. The monitoring systems are installed inside the company’s disconnect safety systems and re-combiners.

9 Dec 2011

Rebuilding Together Baltimore, Shell Promote Energy Efficiency in Local Homes

Rebuilding Together Baltimore, an affiliate of Rebuilding Together and national sponsor Shell, an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell, join together to enhance energy efficiency in the homes by renovating the home of the local house owner, Ms. Johnson.

6 Dec 2011

Imec Demonstrates Interdigitated Back-Contact Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency

Imec and collaborators have demonstrated interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cells that have a high conversion efficiency of 23.3%. Schott Solar, Solland Solar, GDF-SUEZ, Dow Corning, Kaneka, Photovoltech and Total are imec’s partners in the silicon photovoltaic industrial affiliation program.

3 Dec 2011

Sorubin Becomes Hot Cleantech Startup in Sweden

Sorubin has been recognized as one of the three hottest cleantech startups of Sweden in the ‘Greentech Top 3’ annual competition for 2011.

28 Nov 2011

CSCI Members Release White Paper for Network Power Management

Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) has declared the release of the report titled “Power Management for Networking Devices”. The seven hundred member consortium focuses on information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to minimize its energy usage and the CO2 emission.

25 Nov 2011

Pike Research’s Global Analysis Report on Energy Efficient Buildings

“Energy Efficient Buildings: Global Outlook”, a report from Pike Research has offered information based on the growth and size of the markets of energy efficient buildings, which includes sale of energy efficient lighting from 2011 to 2017, sales of energy efficient HVAC device, incomes from ESCO, key drivers’ qualitative explanation, energy efficiency trends in main markets that target the commercial building segment.

25 Nov 2011

Possibility of Higher Efficiency and Commercially Viable Solar Power in the Near Future

Making solar power commercially viable with low costs, portablity and higher energy efficiency is the task that the University of Pittsburgh researchers have undertaken through the grant given by the National Science Foundation.

24 Nov 2011

GPIC to Study SAGE’s SageGlass Technology at Philadelphia Navy Yard

SAGE’s SageGlass, an electronically tintable glass, will be used as the model window in a novel research and development project for designing energy-efficient buildings at the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy-Efficient Buildings.

24 Nov 2011

Simpson Brothers Greenhouses Choose Insight Management’s Solar Nanotechnology for Manufacturing Operations

Insight Management has announced that Simpson Brothers Greenhouses is intending to use solar nanotechnology products of Insight Management for its daily greenhouse manufacturing operations located in Ovid, Michigan.

22 Nov 2011