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Renewable Energy Presents REC Global Partner Awards to Six Distributors

Renewable Energy Corporation (REC), the largest European supplier of solar modules, awarded the REC Global Partner Awards to six of its partner distributors.

8 Oct 2012

Study Findings Provide Insights into Inner Workings of Organic Solar Cells

Controlling "mixing" between acceptor and donor layers, or domains, in polymer-based solar cells could increase their efficiency, according to a team of researchers that included physicists from North Carolina State University. Their findings shed light on the inner workings of these solar cells, and could lead to further improvements in efficiency.

6 Oct 2012

SolarCity Increases Solar Energy Installations across New York

SolarCity®, a national leader in clean energy services, announced a major expansion in New York state with new locations in Westchester County and Long Island. SolarCity’s three New York locations (the company also recently expanded into a new operations center in Albany) make SolarCity’s unique set of affordable clean energy services widely available in the state.

6 Oct 2012

Green Energy Renewable Solutions Relocates Corporate Headquarters to Detroit

Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: EWRL) today announced that it is relocating its corporate headquarters to the city of Detroit, and will begin operating from its new location as early as next week.

6 Oct 2012

Gaelectric Expands On-Shore Portfolio of Wind Energy Projects in Ireland

Irish renewable energy development and energy storage Group, Gaelectric has today (Thursday) announced that it has secured planning approval for a further two on-shore wind energy projects in Northern Ireland located at Smulgedon, north east of Dungiven in Co. Derry, and at Monnaboy on Loughtermore Mountain, also in Co. Derry.

6 Oct 2012

Commercial operations begin at 25.2 MW DC Queen Creek Solar Farm in Arizona

PSEG Solar Source today announced the commercial operation of the 25.2 megawatt DC (19 megawatt AC) Queen Creek Solar Farm in Queen Creek, Arizona. Salt River Project (SRP) has a 20-year agreement to acquire all of the solar energy generated by the project and has begun accepting power from the plant.

6 Oct 2012

Greenwood Energy Enters Joint Venture with Biosar

Greenwood Energy, the North American renewable energy division of the Libra Group, today announced a new joint venture with Biosar Energy S.A., a global leader in the construction of medium and large scale photo-voltaic (PV) solar systems throughout Europe. Biosar brings proven engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) capabilities to combine with Greenwood's existing alternative fuel and power project development capabilities. The joint venture, called Greenwood Biosar, will complement Greenwood's existing operations and client base while increasing Biosar's footprint throughout North America.

6 Oct 2012

Tidal Energy Attracting Global Interest

Elemental Energy Technologies (“EET”) has recently signed a ground-breaking agreement with Tenax Energy Pty Ltd (“Tenax Energy”) to install and trial their SeaUrchin™ device in Darwin’s Tropical Tidal Energy Testing Centre (T3C), signalling the start of a tidal energy industry in Darwin.

5 Oct 2012

Australian Clean Technologies Competition Announces Winner

A low cost, LED lighting design, which provides energy-savings of up to 93 per cent, has won the 2012 Australian Clean Technologies Competition; it was announced last night by Parliamentary Secretary for Industry and Innovation, Mark Dreyfus.

5 Oct 2012

New Water Research Center at Georgia Power's Plant Bowen Receives Support

Duke Energy and its subsidiaries, including Progress Energy Carolinas and Progress Energy Florida, have joined with a dozen other companies and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in supporting the new Water Research Center (WRC) at Georgia Power's Plant Bowen in Cartersville, Ga.

From Duke Energy 5 Oct 2012

Low Recovered Fibre Generation, Declining Prices Affect European Paper Recyclers

A combination of low generation of recovered fibre and declining prices being offered by mills are putting the squeeze on European paper recyclers. Several European recyclers see the downward trend continuing for the next several quarters as many European countries struggle with challenging economies.

5 Oct 2012

Sandia Labs Publishes Second Annual 2012 Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark

Sandia National Laboratories published the second annual 2012 Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark on Monday, and the results should help the nation’s growing wind industry benchmark its performance, understand vulnerabilities and enhance productivity.

5 Oct 2012

European Law Specialist and Waste Expert Appointed as New ACR+ Secretary General

Ms. Bonnet will take up her new position with ACR+ on 2 January 2013. In the meantime, Jean-Jacques Dohogne, Senior Project Manager at ACR+, will act as Secretary General to ensure a smooth transition.

5 Oct 2012

Innovative Renewable Bioenergy Business Competition in West Midlands

An innovative business competition has been launched in the West Midlands for companies keen to develop opportunities in renewable bioenergy.

5 Oct 2012

Fuel Tech to Supply Engineering Services and Equipment for Taiwan-Based Advanced SCR Project

Fuel Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTEK), a world leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems and emissions control in utility and industrial applications, today announced it was awarded a $7.6 million contract to supply equipment and engineering services for an ASCR™ Advanced SCR project in Taiwan, Republic of China.

4 Oct 2012