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Cimarron Solar Facility Commences Power Production

The Cimarron Solar Facility jointly owned by Southern Company and Turner Renewable Energy, a fully owned auxiliary company of Turner Enterprises, has commenced its commercial power generation.

31 Jan 2011

Pepco Energy Services to Construct Solar Project for the Department of Energy

Pepco Energy Services, a renewable energy contracting company and an auxiliary of Pepco Holdings, declared that it has entered into an accord to formulate and build a solar photovoltaic installation for the campus of Department of Energy (DOE) at Germantown, Maryland.

31 Jan 2011

Euro Solar Parks Acquires Bulgarian Company

Euro Solar Parks declared that it has acquired land measuring around 11,560m2 in two important places in Bulgaria for the construction solar plants to generate 0.7 MWp power.

31 Jan 2011

GreenCo Signs Deal with Duke Energy Renewables to Buy Renewable Energy Certificates

The new solar project taken over by Duke Energy from SunPower already has takers for the power generated from the projects and its renewable energy certificates.

31 Jan 2011

OPDE ITALY Looking Forward to Complete 200 MW Solar Construction by 2012

The year 2010 saw that OPDE ITALY, an Italian-based company and a division of GRUPO OPDE, a Spanish company, which specializes in the formulation of solar PV farms, connecting 11 solar PV farms in 2010 to generate around 17 MW clean power.

31 Jan 2011

Researchers Study Cow’s Rumen for Sustainable Biofuel Production

Researchers at the University of Illinois have made a significant breakthrough by identifying dozens of microbial enzymes which have been previously unknown to mankind, in the cow’s primary grass-digestion chamber.

31 Jan 2011

NC State University Receives ARPA-E Grant to Develop Smart Grid Technologies

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, has awarded a research grant to North Carolina State University to design novel technologies for developing smart grid systems.

31 Jan 2011

Ameresco, Republic Services to Build Landfill Gas-to-Electricity Facility in California

A new 4.3 MW landfill gas-to-electricity (LFGTE) facility will be built in The Republic Services Vasco Road Landfill. Ameresco, a firm specializing in energy efficiency solutions, and Republic Services, a renewable energy firm, will construct and operate the facility.

31 Jan 2011

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy Purchases Hydroelectric Facilities in New York

Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, a division of Hudson Clean Energy, an equity firm declared that it has purchased two hydroelectric units in Orange County and Sullivan in New York State.

31 Jan 2011

French Farmers Looking for Ways to Use Renewable Energy

Renewable energy sector of France is booming with increased participation by farmers. Good numbers of farmers are trying to invest in renewable energy sector to manage the instability in farm price and to support the ren...

31 Jan 2011