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Viridis Africa Clean Technology Conference to be Held in October in Johannesburg

This October 15 & 16 will mark the third year Viridis Africa is to be held. It will be bigger, better, more defined and refined in achieving its stated goal of bringing together both investors and entrepreneurs from Africa to meet with their counterparts from around the world in order to pursue the objective of setting up clean technologies businesses in the continent holding commercial promise.

19 Mar 2013

Masdar Partners with Total and Abengoa to Launch World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

Masdar, along with its partners, today launched Shams 1, the largest concentrated solar power plant (CSP) in operation in the world. Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, partnered with French energy company Total and Spain’s energy infrastructure company Abengoa.

18 Mar 2013

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power Completes First Phase of Copper Mountain Solar 2 Facility in Boulder City

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler today joined Sempra U.S. Gas & Power officials and community leaders to dedicate the state's newest solar energy project, the 92-megawatt (MW) first phase of the company's Copper Mountain Solar 2 facility in Boulder City.

18 Mar 2013

Rexel Energy and Natural Sparx Have a Successive Year at Ecobuild 2013

Rexel Energy Solutions and Natural Sparx together had yet another successive year exhibiting at Ecobuild 2013, ExCeL London. The well received joint venture included Commercial Green Deal Specialists to help explain the new government initiative designed to help businesses to employ more green technologies into their buildings.

16 Mar 2013

Global Solar PV Demand to Increase by 7% to 31 GW During 2013

Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand will increase two gigawatts (GW), from 29 GW to 31 GW during 2013, up 7% Y/Y according to the new NPD Solarbuzz Marketbuzz 2013.

12 Mar 2013

New 5 MW Kalaeloa Solar Farm Dedicated in West Oahu

Today, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie will join representatives of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and Hawaiian Electric Company in a dedication ceremony for a new five-megawatt Kalaeloa Solar Farm in West Oahu.

From SunPower Corporation 11 Mar 2013

Challenges in On-Demand Delivery of Renewable Energy

Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging.

11 Mar 2013

Doped Carbon Gel Enables Production of Low-Cost Energy

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have developed a new material using doped carbon that allows low-cost energy to be produced and also reduces the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere. The recently-patented material is a gel that enables the CO2 to be turned back into hydrocarbons via electro-catalytic transformation, with great savings both in time and money

11 Mar 2013

Power from Six Pristine California Solar Projects to be Connected to the Grid

Pristine Sun, LLC and Solar Mosaic, Inc. ("Mosaic") have executed several agreements to close on post-construction permanent loans on the first phase of a portfolio build-out of solar PV farms in California over the next nine months.

7 Mar 2013

Commercial Operations Begin at NRG’s 26 MW Borrego I Utility-Scale Solar Facility

NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, announced the start of commercial operations for the Borrego I Solar Generating Station, a 26 megawatt (AC) photovoltaic facility located northeast of Borrego Springs, Calif. The station’s electricity will be sold to San Diego Gas & Electric under a 25-year power purchase agreement.

From NRG Energy, Inc. 7 Mar 2013