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ESNA Honors Duke Energy’s Notrees Battery Storage Project with Innovation Award

Duke Energy’s Notrees Battery Storage Project, located in Ector and Winkler counties, Texas, was recently honored with the top utility-scale energy storage innovation award at the 2013 Energy Storage North America (ESNA) Conference and Expo in San Jose, Calif.

17 Sep 2013

LEED Platinum Certified Sandy Grove Middle School to Utilize 589 kW DC Solar PV System

PowerSecure International, Inc., announced today that it has designed and installed the power systems for Sandy Grove Middle School (SGMS) in Lumber Bridge, NC, which opened for the 2013-2014 school year as one of the nation’s first net positive energy schools.

17 Sep 2013

3M Purification Achieves WQA Sustainability Certifications

3M Purification is the first to achieve WQA Sustainability Certifications under the new WQA Product Sustainability standards.

17 Sep 2013

Engineers Employ Falling Particle Receiver Technology for Efficient Conversion of Sun’s Energy into Electricity

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun’s energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants.

17 Sep 2013

Malaria Transmission in West Africa May not be Affected by Climate Change

As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5.

17 Sep 2013

History of Solar Energy

The Chinese got it. So did the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Long before the advent of modern photovoltaics and solar grids, these forward thinkers were finding ways to harness the sun's energy - present in infinite supply - and use it to heat their homes and baths, and even to cook their food.

16 Sep 2013

Liberty Power Donates Renewable Energy Certificates for USHCC Annual Convention

Liberty Power, the nation’s largest independent retail electric supplier, is proud to announce its partnership with the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC).

16 Sep 2013

New Munksjö Website for Paper Release Liner Recycling Program

Munksjö announces today the launch of www.full-circle.eu, a website offering to the Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) value chain information and easy access to the company’s paper liner recycling program.

16 Sep 2013

MWRD’s New Nutrient Recovery System at Stickney Water Reclamation Plant to be built by Black & Veatch and Ostara

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has selected Black & Veatch and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies to design and build a new nutrient recovery system at its Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, IL.

16 Sep 2013

XPO Clean Energy Exposition to be Hosted by UC Irvine

UC Irvine has been named the official host university of the inaugural XPO clean energy exposition, which will take place in October alongside the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 at the Orange County Great Park.

16 Sep 2013

Advanced Sewage Treatment Effectively Removes Pyrethroid Insecticides

Even though sewage treatment plants are not designed to remove tiny amounts of pesticides, they do an excellent job of dealing with the most widely used family of home and garden insecticides, scientists reported here today.

16 Sep 2013

Lockheed Martin Named Among Top 56 Companies on 2013 Global Carbon Performance Leadership Index

CDP, previously known as Carbon Disclosure Project, has recognized Lockheed Martin as one of the world’s top companies for addressing climate change in its operations.

From Lockheed Martin 13 Sep 2013

SSEPD Selects Electrovaya’s Lithium Ion SuperPolymer Systems for Smart Grid Project

Electrovaya Inc. announced that it has received a purchase order from Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) for a major distributed energy storage project. The project will lead to the installation of 25 distributed and independent energy storage systems in a single UK town.

13 Sep 2013

U.S. Solar Installations in Q2 2013 Increase 15% Over Q1 2013

GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) today release U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2nd Quarter 2013, the definitive analysis of solar power markets in the U.S., with strategic state-specific data for 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

13 Sep 2013

Boulder Electric Vehicle Successfully Demonstrates V2G Bi-Directional Charging in All Electric Trucks

Boulder Electric Vehicle has successfully demonstrated their Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) all electric trucks in three separate locations including Michigan, Colorado and California. The first full powered success transpired in Royal Oak, Michigan, on June 14, 2013.

13 Sep 2013