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Sacramento's Largest Privately Owned Solar Energy Array Installed and Activated by Perpetual Energy Systems and Siemens Transportation Systems

Perpetual Energy Systems (PES), comprehensive financier of solar-powered renewable energy systems, and Siemens Transportation Systems (STS), part of the Siemens Mobility Division, announces the activation of a 1.0 megawatt (MW) solar energy installation, the largest privately owned system of its size in the city of Sacramento

12 May 2009

Global Financial Crises Eclipse Solar Photovoltaic Market Fortunes

Despite early market growth predictions, the global financial crisis has cast a shadow over the solar power sector. Research Analysts’ new report, Global Market Review of Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation, predicts an eventful few years in this sector of the renewable energy industry

11 May 2009

China Based Company, Yingli Green Energy Joins PV CYCLE Photovoltaics Recycling Program

Yingli Green Energy, one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has become the first China-based company and the 40th member to join PV CYCLE, an organization based in Brussels, Belgium that promotes voluntary take-back and recycling of end-of-life PV modules

11 May 2009

CEMEX Makes Sustainability Progress and Reduces Carbon Emissions by 15.8%

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX) today announced that it continues to make substantial progress toward its goals as a sustainable building materials company with the achievement of three of its sustainability targets ahead of schedule, as well as with significant reductions in its carbon emissions

11 May 2009

Finalists Selected and Voting Is Open For America's Greenest School

America votes online for the nation's top singers and celebrity dancers, but now they can vote online to decide which school deserves the title of America's Greenest School

11 May 2009

Special Blanket to Generate Energy While Protecting Astronauts From Space Radiation

A group of students at North Carolina State University has developed a "blanket" of sorts that covers lunar outposts - the astronauts' living quarters - to provide astronauts protection against radiation while also generating and storing power

11 May 2009

Solar and Nuclear Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Gets A Boost

Solar and nuclear energy technology advancements from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) could help the nation in its quest to capture viable sources of alternative energy, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science

11 May 2009

New Understanding of Photosynthesis Energy Conversion

A new study has come up with a surprising twist to photosynthesis by swapping a key metal necessary for turning sunlight into chemical energy

11 May 2009

Energy Conversion Devices and Enfinity to Co-Develop of Solar Projects Across the US and Europe

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc and Enfinity, NV today announced plans to co-develop a portfolio of rooftop solar installations throughout the U.S., as well as in numerous European countries, including Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic

11 May 2009

Caltech To Get Energy Frontier Research Center

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one that will be housed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

11 May 2009