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Major Tool for Sustainable Market Development of the Renewable Energy Sector

The European Renewable Energy Council- representing the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations- welcomes the directive proposal on renewable energy released today by the European Commission: The proposal will – when further improved during the legislative process- be a major tool for reaching the 20% target, for developing in a sustainable way the renewable energy sector, thereby enhancing our security of supply, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and creating jobs in the European Union.

24 Jan 2008

Effectiveness and Efficiency of Solar Energy Conversion Boosted by Dark Material

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man.

24 Jan 2008

Novel Intellectual Property Enables Energy Efficient Automotive Coatings

Ecology Coatings, Inc., today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the fourth in a series of new patents assigned to the company for its portfolio of environmentally friendly UV-curable coating products.

24 Jan 2008

Ecology Coatings Taking Advantages of Environmentally Friendly Products

Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery, development, and manufacture of nanotechnology-enabled, ultra-violet curable coating materials, today announced that it has retained McCloud Communications to design and execute a comprehensive investor awareness program for expanding its shareholder base and increasing public awareness of the company.

24 Jan 2008

Partnership to Help Company Becoming World Leader in Planet Living

Sustainability solutions experts BioRegional announced this week that they will partner with B&Q for the next three years to help the company become a world leading One Planet Living(r) business. The partnership will enable B&Q to reduce its impact on the world's resources and make it easy for B&Q customers to have sustainable homes and gardens by listing 2,000 eco-products in store.

24 Jan 2008

Supplying World-Leading Solar Concentrator Photovoltaic Components to Spanish Market

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets, announced today that it will supply its world-leading solar Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) components and systems to the Spanish market through several agreements.

24 Jan 2008

Quantum Acquires 25% Equity Stake in Leading German Solar Energy Company

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 25% equity stake in ASOLA Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, a leading German solar energy technology company that develops and manufactures high quality and high-efficiency photovoltaic modules for a number of innovative applications, including commercial, residential and automotive.

23 Jan 2008

Amtech Enters into Agreement for Solar Diffusion Furnace System

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its subsidiary, Tempress® Systems, Inc., has entered into a research agreement to develop an in-line or conveyor diffusion furnace system for the solar industry.

23 Jan 2008

China Sunergy Establishes Solar Cell Manufacturing in Germany

China Sunergy Co., Ltd., a specialized solar cell manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, announced today that the Company has established its European headquarters in Munich, Germany.

23 Jan 2008

Technologists and Policy Makers Addresses Energy Issues

The University of California Santa Barbara's Technology Management Program will assemble entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and senior policy makers from China, British Columbia and California at the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit on the UCSB campus, Corwin Pavilion, February 8th and 9th.

22 Jan 2008

Portable Device Powered by Nature

Freeplay Energy(TM), the leading brand of dependable, portable, self-sustaining products, today, at the Winter Outdoor Retailer show, announced the launch of its new integrated compact device called the Freeplay Companion in the United States and Canada.

22 Jan 2008

Microbial Solutions Raises Fund to Commercialise Innovative Wastewater Treatment Technology

Microbial Solutions Ltd (Oxford, UK) a newly formed spin-out company from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, a research centre owned by the Natural Environment Research Council, today announced that it has raised £1.2 million to commercialise its innovative wastewater treatment technology, which uses a patent protected collection of ‘clever’ non-pathogenic bacteria to cleanse toxic metal working fluids from the engineering industry.

22 Jan 2008

Manufacturers Called Upon to Implement Simple Energy Saving Technology

Inventor Tom Chi is addressing the energy crisis with a GREEN solution that he calls "impossibly simple" and that he describes as "one more Essential action we need to take to reduce energy dependence and fuel costs."

22 Jan 2008

EPSRC Awards Surrey University to Develop New Low-Cost Fuel Cells

An energy materials research group in alkaline polymer fuel cells lead by Dr John Varcoe at the University of Surrey has been awarded £292k by the EPSRC to develop new low-temperature fuel cells which could lower the cost and increase the operation times of batteries used in everyday gadgets such as mobile phones and laptops. The EPSRC award to Surrey forms part of a larger £1.4m award to four UK universities.

22 Jan 2008

GE Energy Reinforces Position as Leading Supplier of Wind Turbines in 2007

GE Energy reinforced its position as North America's leading supplier of wind turbines in 2007, with another record-breaking year for the U.S. wind industry.

22 Jan 2008