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New TechWaste Recycling Center Opens in Brooklyn, New York

TechWaste Recycling Launches and extends operations in New York. A new TechWaste Recycling center has opened up in Brooklyn New York. Address: 700 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, New York - 11231. This is the second major location for the company. The new location furthers TechWaste's recycling goal of meeting the growing needs for businesses seeking to dispose of unwanted and outdated electronic waste and IT equipment.

6 May 2014

Genan Officially Opens New Tire Recycling Facility in Houston, Texas

Bringing modernized, climate friendly recycling technology to the United States, the world's largest tire recycling company officially opened their new state-of-the-art tire recycling facility in Houston, Texas.

6 May 2014

SolarCity, Carrier Team Up to Make Affordable Solar-Powered Heating and Cooling Solutions for Homeowners

Challenging the false assumption that greener products must be more expensive than less sustainable options, SolarCity and Carrier are teaming up to make high-efficiency, solar-powered heating and cooling solutions far more accessible and affordable for homeowners.

From Tesla Energy Foster City 6 May 2014

Siemens Energy Wins Major Wind Turbine and Service Order for Ontario Wind Farm

Today, Siemens Energy announced a major wind turbine and service order in Canada at the AWEA WINDPOWER tradeshow in Las Vegas. Along with the South Kent Wind Farm in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, the 270-MW K2 Wind Ontario (K2 Wind) Project will be among the largest wind power plants in Canada. It is located in Goderich in southwestern Ontario and will feature 140 units of the Siemens SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines.

6 May 2014

Martifer Solar Delivers One of First Unsubsidized Solar Power Plants in Italy to Ikea Group

Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, has delivered one of the first unsubsidized solar power plants in Italy for the Ikea Group on the rooftop of a new commercial store in Pisa, Tuscany. The project has a total capacity of 696.15 kWp and has been structured without a feed-in-tariff approach.

6 May 2014

Johnson Controls, UW-Madison Partner to Test Next Generation of Energy Storage Technology

A new laboratory at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will strengthen Johnson Controls' innovation capabilities as the company researches and develops next-generation technology.

From Johnson Controls, Inc. 6 May 2014

Hemp Announces Approval of Industrial Hemp Remediation and Biofuel Crop Analysis Program in Hawaii

Hemp, Inc. (HEMP) is pleased to publicize the signing of Senate Bill 2175 (Act 56) by Hawaii Governor, Neil Abercrombie to allow the state's University of Hawaii, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (at Manoa) to establish a two-year industrial hemp remediation and biofuel crop research and analysis program.

6 May 2014

Finalists Selected for Intersolar AWARD and Electrical Energy Storage AWARD

This year for the seventh time, the world's leading exhibition for the solar industry is holding the Intersolar AWARD ceremony, which pays tribute to innovative industry solutions in the categories of Photovoltaics and Solar Projects in Europe. It is accompanied this year for the first time by the electrical energy storage (ees) AWARD ceremony.

6 May 2014

Melting Ice in East Antarctica could Raise World Sea Levels, Study Finds

The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica’s shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to come. This is shown in a study now published in Nature Climate Change by scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The findings are based on computer simulations of the Antarctic ice flow using improved data of the ground profile underneath the ice sheet.

6 May 2014

Canadian Solar to Receive Credit Facility for Construction of Three Solar Power Projects

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that the National Bank of Canada will provide the Company with C$115.5 million, in short-term construction financing. The credit facility will be used to support the construction of three solar power projects in Ontario, Canada, totaling 30 MWac.

5 May 2014

Pattern Energy to Acquire 179 MW of Owned Interest in 218 MW Panhandle 1 Wind Project

Growing its portfolio to 11 wind power projects, Pattern Energy Group Inc., today announced it has agreed to acquire 179 megawatts (MW) of owned interest in the 218 MW Panhandle 1 wind project from Pattern Energy Group LP following its completion, expected in June 2014, for a total cash consideration of US$125 million.

5 May 2014

JinkoSolar Signs Contracts to Supply 100 MW PV Modules for Two Projects in Chile

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., a global leader in the solar PV industry, today announced that it signed contracts to supply 100 MW of PV modules for two PV projects in Chile.

5 May 2014

Cobra Energia Awards 97 MW Wind Power Order in Peru to Siemens

Cobra Energia has awarded Siemens Energy another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by 97 megawatts (MWs).

5 May 2014

Pecan Row Landfill Gas Generating Facility Opens

A ribbon cutting ceremony today officially opened the nearby Pecan Row landfill gas generating facility, which will produce more than 4 megawatts (MW) of power for Green Power EMC, a green energy cooperative owned by 38 Electric Membership Corporations (EMC) in Georgia.

5 May 2014

NASA-CNES Sign Agreement to Implement Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission

NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ever global survey of Earth's surface water and to map ocean surface height with unprecedented detail.

5 May 2014