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Spire Corporation Manufactures Globe’s Extremely Efficient Solar Cells

Spire Semiconductor LLC is Spire Corporation’s completely owned subsidiary and has produced CPV (concentrated photovoltaic) solar cells with a global record efficiency. A 0.97 sq. cm. cell measured by U.S. DoE’s NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) was found to have a peak cell efficiency that measured 42.3 %.

15 Oct 2010

Cogenra Solar Receives $1.5 Million Grant from California Solar Program

Cogenra Solar has been awarded with a research grant of $1.5 million from CSI RD&D program (California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration).

15 Oct 2010

Cape Wind Gets Lease for First Offshore Wind Farm in US

Jim Gordon, Cape Wind President and Ken Salazar U.S. Interior Secretary, have jointly signed the country’s first lease towards the offshore wind farm coming under the territory of United States’ federal waters.

15 Oct 2010

First Solar Signs Agreements for Additional 380 MW Solar Orders from Europe

First Solar has signed agreements towards a 380 MW increase in solar orders for 2011 with about seven key customers over the previously announced volumes.

15 Oct 2010

Global Bioenergies Creates Bacterial Archetype for Producing Isobutene from Glucose

Global Bioenergies, located in Evry, France at the Genopole campus has successfully created a bacterial prototype for producing isobutene from glucose.

15 Oct 2010

Ultra Clean Technology Receives Award from FEI Company

Ultra Clean Technology has received the “Manufacturing Partner of the Year 2010” award from FEI company. This award has been presented in recognition of the operational performance of Ultra Clean Technology at the FEI facility located in Hillsboro, Oregon.

15 Oct 2010

JPMorgan to Fund SunEdison’s Solar Projects

JPMorgan is all set to finance $60 million towards SunEdison solar energy projects across the USA. For JPMorgan, this is a pioneer distributed generation solar energy program.

15 Oct 2010

SiGNa Launches an Advanced Electric Bicycle, the Range Extender

The race for creating a portable power platform that is hydrogen-based moved forward at the Interbike International Trade Expo when SiGNa Chemistry Inc. went on to demonstrate its new range extender with ultra-high-performance levels.

15 Oct 2010

Independent Energy Solutions Finishes Solar Panel Installation in California

IES (Independent Energy Solutions) has completed the 1.15 MW solar electric system for Capital Group Companies in Orange County in California.

15 Oct 2010

Arizona Researchers Formulate Ways for Biofuel Production from Microbes

Arizona Researchers have formulated ways for biofuel production from Microbes thus unleashing a cleaner way for unlocking their energy. Algae as well as photosynthetic bacteria hold treasures in the form of fat molecules called lipids that can be converted into renewable biofuels.

15 Oct 2010