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Philippines Energy Department to Import Bioethanol

The Philippines Energy Department is all set to import bioethanol as a temporary measure next year in order to implement the Biofuels Law which requires a 10% biofuels mix in gasoline.

28 Jul 2010

REC Solar Installs 1,170 REC 220 W Solar Modules to Produce 400,000 kWh Electric Power at Hawaii

REC Solar, a company known for its grid connected residential and commercial installations, has completed its solar power installation project at the Kapolei Inline Hockey stadiums in Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands.

28 Jul 2010

New Exelon City Solar Plant Expected to Produce 14,000 MW-h to Power 1500 Homes

Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago and John Rowe, Chairman and CEO of Exelon Corporation has dedicated the Exelon City Solar the leading urban solar power plant constructed in a 41 acre site at West Pullman area which was vacant for more than 30 years has been rehabilitated to produce clean energy for the benefit of the community.

28 Jul 2010

Yingli Green Energy Joins Innovalight for Enhancing Multicrystalline Cell Efficiency

Yingli Green Energy, which holds the brand Yingli Solar, has joined Innovalight for catapulting multicrystalline cell efficiency. The company has announced that it has signed an agreement with Innovalight towards collaboration in production, research and technology.

28 Jul 2010

Topsun Creation China Strengthens its Lithium Battery “New Energy” Business

China Innovation has announced that its flagship solar battery company, Topsun Creation China, has entered into and signed up a Joint Venture agreement with lithium battery experts, Dr. Tang and Dr. Sun worth RMB 50 million.

28 Jul 2010

ENN Solar Energy to Continue With Thin Film Solar Cell Know-How

This announcement came in the wake of a statement made by Applied Materials, Inc about reorganizing its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) section and discontinuing the sale of SunFab fully-integrated lines that allow manufacturing of thin film solar panels and its intention to sell individual tools to thin film solar module producers.

27 Jul 2010

China Witnesses 72% Growth in Outside Financing on Renewable Energy Sources

A recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance report indicates that during the second quarter of this year 2010 China has attracted more asset investment in its clean energy know-how than the combined asset financing of Europe and the USA during the same period.

27 Jul 2010

Consumers Energy is Looking Forward to Go Green with Vestas

As per the clauses of agreement Vestas will produce, deliver and install the V100-1.8 MW turbine units. The 56 number of wind turbines when installed will enable Consumers Energy to generate 100.8 MW of green power.

27 Jul 2010

IBM Smartphones to Assess CO2 Data from Solar Powered Unmanned Vehicle

The vehicles fitted with IBM Human Centric Solutions introduced Smartphones are expected to monitor and gather details on CO2 contaminants in places such as Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Crotia, Ukrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia and China during the course of the journey.

27 Jul 2010

ATN Joins NexGen for Transit Bus Testing and Conversion to Electric from Diesel

The ATN (Anaheim Transportation Network) has announced that it has partnered with NexGen Power Group for testing a fully functional battery-powered, zero-emission, heavy-duty transit bus for a period of one year starting 2010 December. NexGen will be retrofitting two buses from the diesel to electric operating platform for the purpose of performing a full operating day.

27 Jul 2010