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ACC Supports Tucson Electric Power’s Plans for Purchasing Renewable Energy Projects

The ACC (Arizona Corporation Commission) has expressed support for the plan of TEP (Tucson Electric Power) towards purchasing ten novel renewable energy projects that will produce about 150 MW of energy, sufficient for powering in excess of 30,000 Tucson homes.

30 Aug 2010

TPI Composites Announces Plans for Wind Energy Center in Massachusetts

TPI Composites, Inc., a wind turbine blades supplier, plans to start an innovation center for wind turbine blades at Fall River, Massachusetts which will support the manufacturing facilities of TPI Composites across the world.

30 Aug 2010

Vestas Bags 40 MW Wind Energy Contract from CLP

Vestas has obtained a wind turbine order from CLP for 24 units of V82-1.65 MW capacity wind turbines meant for the first phase of the Harpanahalli Wind Farm project in Karnataka State, India.

30 Aug 2010

New Geothermal Plan Formulated for Rotorua

Rotorua District Council and the Bay of Plenty Regional Council are working together for formulating steps for allocating the geothermal resources of Rotorua following a workshop that was conducted recently.

27 Aug 2010

Shell and Cosan Partner for Ethanol Production

Royal Dutch Shell, an European oil firm, and Cosan SA, a Brazilian ethanol manufacturer, have partnered for producing ethanol.

27 Aug 2010

Tecnalia Joins Sunglass Project for Optimum Usage of Solar Energy

In collaboration with the University of Cantabria, the Construction Unit of Tecnalia has participated in a Sunglass project that aims at developing a novel building product that optimizes the usage of solar energy.

27 Aug 2010

Princeton Power to Develop Commercial Hydropower Conversion System

PPS (Princeton Power Systems) has been awarded with a Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) contract by the U.S. DOE (Department of Energy) Office of Science.

27 Aug 2010

Finavera Joins SSE Towards Developing Wind Energy Project in Ireland

Finavera Renewables Inc. has sold majority interest of its Gate 3 grid-connection from Eirgrid to Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) for €8.4 million.

27 Aug 2010

Cypress and SunPower Jointly Donate for Solar Energy Equipment at Second Harvest Food Bank

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and SunPower Corporation have jointly donated $1.1 million to the Second Harvest Food Bank located in the San Mateo and the Santa Clara counties.

27 Aug 2010

Nevada Solar to Construct Solar PV Project in Reno City

Nevada Solar Works LLC, a collaboration between CleanPath Renewables, Alternative Energy Solutions and Q&D Construction, has won a solar contract for building solar photovoltaic projects with an overall capacity of 1.3 MW for Reno City.

27 Aug 2010