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Global Warming May Ramp Up Methane Flow from Groundwater into Arctic Lakes

Global warming may ramp up the flow of methane from groundwater into Arctic lakes, allowing more of the potent greenhouse gas to bubble out into the atmosphere, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Santa Cruz.

11 Mar 2015

CalCom Solar Enters into 100MW Supply Agreement with NEXTracker

CalCom Solar, a leader in solar project design and construction for California Agribusinesses and Water Districts, has entered into a 100 MW supply agreement with NEXTracker to serve its agribusiness customers.

11 Mar 2015

Standard Solar Announces 3.6MW Solar Project for Town of Stafford, Connecticut

Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems, today announced it will design and install a 3.6 Megawatt (MW) solar system for the Town of Stafford, Conn.

11 Mar 2015

NASA Procures Gevo’s Renewable Alcohol-to-Jet Fuel

Gevo, Inc., announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased Gevo's renewable Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. Gevo's ATJ is manufactured at its demonstration biorefinery located in Silsbee, TX, using renewable isobutanol produced at its Luverne, MN, isobutanol plant. The biorefinery, where Gevo also produces bio-paraxylene and bio-isooctane, is operated in conjunction with South Hampton Resources.

11 Mar 2015

Principal Solar to Build 72.9MW AC Solar Facility in North Carolina

Principal Solar, Inc. (PSI; OTC Pink®: PSWW), a solar power company that is creating a utility-scale operation, announced today that it will build a 72.9 MW AC solar facility in North Carolina, its second major project announced in 2015.

10 Mar 2015

New Type of Protective Coating Enables Key Process in Solar-Driven Production of Fuels

Caltech scientists, inspired by a chemical process found in leaves, have developed an electrically conductive film that could help pave the way for devices capable of harnessing sunlight to split water into hydrogen fuel.

10 Mar 2015

Hanwha Q CELLS to Supply 75MW of Solar PV Modules to juwi solar

Hanwha Q CELLS Co. Ltd. ("Hanwha Q CELLS"), a top-10 global photovoltaic manufacturer of high-quality, cost-competitive solar modules, has signed a supply agreement with juwi solar to supply 75 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules.

10 Mar 2015

Climate Change is Starting to Speed up

An analysis of changes to the climate that occur over several decades suggests that these changes are happening faster than historical levels and are starting to speed up. The Earth is now entering a period of changing climate that will likely be faster than what's occurred naturally over the last thousand years, according to a new paper in Nature Climate Change, committing people to live through and adapt to a warming world.

10 Mar 2015

A-Frame-Like Contraption Produces Ceramic Water Filters for Making Unsafe Water Potable

A game-changer. That’s what Penn State art education professor B. Stephen Carpenter II calls the approximately 50-pound portable filter press designed by engineering students during the spring 2014 semester. The A-frame-like contraption, small enough to fit in a suitcase, produces ceramic water filters that, simply but significantly, make unsafe water potable.

10 Mar 2015

Proteomics May Help Manipulate Switchgrass for Increased Biofuel Production

If advanced biofuels are to replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on a gallon-for-gallon basis at competitive pricing, we’re going to need a new generation of fuel crops – plants designed specifically to serve as feedstocks for fuels. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have demonstrated the power of a new ally in this effort – proteomics!

10 Mar 2015

JA Solar Completes Development of New 1500V PV Module

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. ("JA Solar" or "JA"), one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it has completed the development of its new 1500V PV module, inaugurating the product's global launch in February 2015.

10 Mar 2015

Global Installed Capacity for Solar PV Projected to Reach 489.8 GW by 2020

The global installed capacity for solar PV is expected to reach 489.8 GW by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growing push for sustainability has led to increased focus on renewable energy forms such as solar PV. In addition, favorable regulatory policies such as Feed in Tariff (FIT) is expected to further increase installed capacity, particularly along the Sunbelt countries. The reduction in price of PV modules is expected to lower the cost of energy generated by solar PV to USD 0.07 - USD 0.16, making it competitive to oil or gas fired peak power plants.

9 Mar 2015

Two Environmental Pollutants Have Adverse Effects on Infants' Development

Even though the levels of two environmental pollutants have declined over the last 20 years, they may still have adverse effects on children's development, according to a new study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. This is the largest study of environmental pollutants and infant growth to date.

9 Mar 2015

Researchers Report that Growing Periods of Vegetation Have Changed Worldwide

Are leaves and buds developing earlier in the spring? And do leaves stay on the trees longer in autumn? Do steppe ecosystems remaining green longer and are the savannas becoming drier and drier? In fact, over recent decades, the growing seasons have changed everywhere around the world. This was determined by a doctoral candidate at the Goethe University as part of an international collaboration based on satellite data.

9 Mar 2015

Climate Change Poses Challenge to Blue Crab Population

David Johnson was standing in a salt marsh tidal creek north of Boston, Mass., when he scooped up a blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, 80 miles north of its native range. The northern migration of this commercially important species, Johnson says, could be yet another sign of climate change. Then a scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center, Johnson recently published his observations in the Journal of Crustacean Biology.

9 Mar 2015