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SunPower Signs €48 Million Definitive Sale Agreement with Etrion Corporation

SunPower Corp, which has designed and constructed the 28 MW power plant located in the Lazio region of Italy will also extend services for running of the plant and its maintenance.

10 Aug 2010

Grant Fund Propels Research Projects Boom at Utah State University

A grant funding of $187 million in the 2010 fiscal year has propelled research projects to increase at the Utah State University (USU).

10 Aug 2010

Airlines Test Jet Biofuel to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Care2 report indicates that airlines in the USA alone generate around three percent of the total carbon dioxide produced in the country and the use biofuels is expected to make considerable drop in greenhouse gas emissions.

10 Aug 2010

Mexico Aims to Supply Jet Biofuel to USA by 2015

Gilberto Lopez Meyer, Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services Director, said that his country is advantageously positioned than other similar countries to produce biofuel that can be utilized in aircrafts.

10 Aug 2010

Gevo Converts Plant Stalks and Wood Chips into Butanol, a Jet Fuel

Butanol contains more energy than biofuels such as ethanol and burns more efficiently to offer more mileage per gallon. Unlike biofuel, butanol does not suffer quantity ratio limitations for blending with gasoline.

10 Aug 2010

ESB Wind Farm Commenced its Constructions in Co Derry

The state owned electricity service recently commissioned its new 20 MW wind farm located in Co Tyrone with eight turbines and started providing electric power to 20,000 residents of the locality.

10 Aug 2010

Biodiesel Lab Gets BQ-9000 Accreditation

The biofuel lab of the college was started by Don Heck, who currently holds the position of director of the fuel testing lab. According to Heck, the lab was originally started as a teaching lab in the year 2006 and was functioning from the greenhouse of the college

10 Aug 2010

United Steelworkers Union to Purchase 50,000 Tons of USA Manufactured Steel

Earlier the wind project was criticized, by Charles Schumer and Sherrod Brown Democratic Senators from New York and Ohio, on the ground that the project though receives federal aid from USA but would increase job opportunities in China instead of USA, because most of the parts required for the wind turbine will be manufactured at China.

10 Aug 2010

Hermosa Beach Church Installs Solar Panels

The Hermosa Beach church became the first green church in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Completely powered by solar energy, the church shows the way for its commitment towards ecofriendly green environment.

10 Aug 2010