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Despite Low Emissions, Sulfur Dioxide Continue to increase Asthma Complications

Emissions of the air pollutant sulfur dioxide have been dramatically decreased during the past 30 years but for some people even a little inhaled sulfur dioxide may still be too much.

20 Jul 2015

Trina Solar Signs Agreement to Supply 51MW of Dual Glass Modules to Yunnan Electric Power Design Institute

Trina Solar Limited ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a global leader in photovoltaic ("PV") modules, solutions, and services, today announced that it has signed an agreement to supply 51 MW of its Dual Glass Modules to Yunnan Electric Power Design Institute, a subsidiary of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd., and the EPC provider for the agricultural PV power plant project located in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province in China. The plant will be used to power equipment in tea plantations, and will be the first of its kind within China.

20 Jul 2015

Emirates Insolaire Showcases Revolutionary Solar Glass Technology at EnerSolar+ Brasil 2015 Exhibition

Emirates Insolaire LLC, a pioneer in the development of new solar technologies and a joint venture of Dubai Investments PJSC [DI] and SwissINSO Holding Inc., has announced that the company’s revolutionary solar glass technology has generated a lot of interest during EnerSolar+ Brasil 2015 exhibition, currently under way in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

20 Jul 2015

ReneSola Agrees to Provide 20MW of Solar Modules to Leading EPC Company in Europe

ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company"), a leading brand and technology provider of energy efficient products, today announced it has agreed to provide 20 megawatts ("MW") of solar modules to an international leading EPC company in Europe. The modules will be used in several utility-scale projects in Germany.

20 Jul 2015

Hanwha Q CELLS to Provide 50MW of Solar Modules to Sunrun

Hanwha Q CELLS Co. Ltd. ("Hanwha Q CELLS") today announced a new solar module supply agreement with Sunrun, the largest dedicated residential solar company in the U.S. Through the partnership, a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS will provide Sunrun with 50 MW of solar modules beginning this year. The cells and modules will be manufactured from Hanwha Q CELLS' fully automated and efficient diversified global manufacturing facilities, including production in South Korea starting in 2016.

17 Jul 2015

HydroRevolution to Construct Commercial Solar Desalination Facility in California

HydroRevolutionSM, a California subsidiary of WaterFX™, today announced plans to build a commercial solar desalination plant in the Panoche Water and Drainage District in California's Central Valley. Once constructed, HydroRevolutionSM will provide a highly sustainable water source to local water districts by using solar energy to recycle salt impaired water into freshwater. This technology will be the first of its kind in the Central Valley but the company hopes this project is merely the first step in revolutionizing the way California uses water.

17 Jul 2015

New Statistical Technique Yields Better Wind-Speed Predictions with only Three Months of Data

When a power company wants to build a new wind farm, it generally hires a consultant to make wind speed measurements at the proposed site for eight to 12 months. Those measurements are correlated with historical data and used to assess the site’s power-generation capacity.

17 Jul 2015

EDF EN Canada Dedicates Rivière-du-Moulin Wind Project

EDF EN Canada Inc., a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles Group, today held a dedication ceremony for the Rivière-du-Moulin Wind Project. Once completed Rivière-du-Moulin Wind Project will be the largest wind energy facility in Canada at 350 megawatt (MW) total under a single Power Purchase Agreement. Local officials, stakeholders and company representatives were joined by 100 guests to mark the successful collaboration of the community to see this project come to fruition.

17 Jul 2015

MIT Spinout Develops Cost-Effective Systems to Treat Briny Oilfield Water for Reuse

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that’s injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the produced water is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water is purchased again and again.

17 Jul 2015

Urban Wildlife Should be Cherished for the Ecological Benefits

Urban wildlife such as deer, foxes and badgers should be cherished for the ecological benefits they bring to towns and cities, rather than feared as potentially harmful pests, scientists argue in a new report.

17 Jul 2015

Dilbit Spills Can Seriously Harm Canada's Fish Populations

A mixture of bitumen and gasoline-like solvents known as dilbit that flows through Prairie pipelines can seriously harm fish populations, according to research out of Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada.

17 Jul 2015

Lake Erie’s Yellow Perch Fish Threatened by Climate Change

Research has suggested yellow perch grow more rapidly during the short winters resulting from climate change, but a new study shows warmer water temperatures can lead to the production of less hardy eggs and larvae that have trouble surviving these early stages of life in Lake Erie.

16 Jul 2015

Mercury Emission Control Systems also Lower Other Pollutants

Air pollution controls installed at an Oregon coal-fired power plant to curb mercury emissions are unexpectedly reducing another class of harmful emissions as well, an Oregon State University study has found.

16 Jul 2015

Fuel Cells are Ecologically Sound only if run on Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Sources

In the future, we might be driving fuel-cell cars that burn solar-generated hydrogen. This would make the “zero emissions car” a reality. At the same time, small combined heat and power units – also based on fuel cell technology – could be placed in our cellars at home. They convert natural gas and biogas into electricity while generating heat as an added “bonus” to warm the building.

16 Jul 2015