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3Power Energy Penetrates the Balkan Market for Hydroelectric Power Plants

3Power Energy Group, a global group that develops and operates sustainable energy projects in various sectors such as solar, wind and hydro power sectors, has entered into a frame agreement to purchase 75% of concession rights for a 127.6 MW hydroelectric power plant in Albania.

7 Jan 2012

ZeroPoint Clean Tech’s Biomass Gasification Solution Generates Carbon Negative Heat and Power

ZeroPoint Clean Tech’s biomass gasification solution has provided carbon negative heat and power for its operations in Germany during December 2011.

6 Jan 2012

American DG Energy Installs On-Site Cogeneration System at New Jersey High-Rise

American DG has signed an agreement with Government Paterson Towers for supplying them with clean energy.

30 Dec 2011

Collins, BAF Partner to Develop CNG Buses

Collins Bus, a provider of Type-A school and school activity buses in North America, and BAF, a supplier of natural gas vehicles, have partnered to build a Type-A school bus featuring a compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system.

17 Dec 2011

Soitec Adds Plug&Sun Mini-Tracker to Concentrator Photovoltaic Product Portfolio

Soitec, a manufacturer of innovative semiconductor materials for energy and electronics industries, has added a new Plug&Sun product to its portfolio of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) products.

15 Dec 2011

MEMS Energy Harvester Generates Energy from Car Tires

imec, a company conducting research in nanoelectronics, and Holst Centre, an open-innovation independent research and development centre, have announced the creation of a micromachined vibration energy harvester that provides high output power.

9 Dec 2011

Imec Demonstrates Interdigitated Back-Contact Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency

Imec and collaborators have demonstrated interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cells that have a high conversion efficiency of 23.3%. Schott Solar, Solland Solar, GDF-SUEZ, Dow Corning, Kaneka, Photovoltech and Total are imec’s partners in the silicon photovoltaic industrial affiliation program.

3 Dec 2011

Fast Jet Stream Winds Do Not Contribute to Considerable Renewable Energy

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry have challenged the notion that fast jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere contribute to high wind power.

2 Dec 2011

Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft Powered by EMCORE Solar Panels

EMCORE, a provider of compound semiconductor-based products for solar power, satellite, fiber optic and broadband markets, has announced that its solar panels were on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that was launched on November 26, 2011.

2 Dec 2011

Innovative Technology to Produce Electricity from Waste Heat

The University of Oslo’s Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology has entered into a partnership with the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (SINTEF) to develop an eco-friendly technology known as thermoelectricity, which can produce electricity from waste heat using temperature differences.

14 Nov 2011