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Solar Turbines Customer in China Receives Prestigious Award from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

A Chinese customer of Caterpillar Inc. subsidiary Solar Turbines is the first foreign business to win the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) International CHP Award

3 Sep 2008

Top International Experts Come to Singapore To Tackle Issues Of Sustainable Cities By 2058

More than 20 world experts on building sustainable cities - urban leaders and globalisation experts - will converge at Singapore for the landmark conference, Futuropolis 2058

3 Sep 2008

Sustainable Building Automation With Wireless Sensors from EnOcean

EnOcean, the inventor of self-powered wireless sensors and modules, has released 315 MHz versions of their ultra-low power radio modules. The development enables integrators to install wireless sensors networks into buildings using a frequency band that is far less crowded than the others available

2 Sep 2008

Solar Building Brick from Sunrise Solar Combines Solar with Traditional Building

Sunrise Solar has announced the introduction of a Solar Light Brick for the integration of solar technologies into traditional construction materials

2 Sep 2008

Envision Solar Creates Modular Residential Solar Shade Structures

Envision Solar has expanded its product line of photovoltaic shade structures to include two flat-pack easy to install modular shade structures

1 Sep 2008

Advent Solar Introduces Ventura Cell to Module Technology to Accelerate Scalable Silicon Photovoltaic Solutions

Industry's first comprehensive cell-to-module solar architecture couples semiconductor manufacturing methods with optimized photovoltaic cell design

1 Sep 2008

USDA Funding for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced that 639 individuals and businesses in 43 states and the Virgin Islands have been selected to receive $35 million in grants and loan guarantees for renewable energy systems or to improve energy efficiency in farm and business operations

1 Sep 2008

IMEC and Plextronics to Team and Develop High Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreement to collaborate on state-of-the-art materials and inks for organic solar cells

1 Sep 2008

Quantumatica and Bandera Use Nanotechnology to Develop New Materials for Extruded Plastic Photovoltaic Panels

Quantumatica and Bandera in a joint effort to develop new materials suitable for the creation of plastic photovoltaic solar panel via extrusion technology

31 Aug 2008

Sea Level Now Expected to Rise Faster Than Previously Predicted

If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated

31 Aug 2008