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New SABIC Materials Designed to Help Improve LED Efficiency, Lifespan and Design Flexibility

SABIC is highlighting new material technology solutions at the Strategies in Light (SIL) 2014 event (booth #1032) that help its customers in the lighting industry address the industry’s shift towards more efficient LED (light-emitting diode) technologies from traditional incandescent systems.

25 Feb 2014

Heliatek CEO To Give Speech at Ecobuild 2014

Heliatek GmbH, a world leading company in the production of organic solar film, announced today that Thibaud Le Séguillon, Heliatek's CEO, will give a speech at Ecobuild 2014, the world's leading event for s...

25 Feb 2014

Strata Solar Selects Canadian Solar Modules for Five Utility Scale Projects Totaling 30 MW

Canadian Solar Inc., (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced it was selected by Strata Solar to power five utility scale projects totaling 30 MW.

From Canadian Solar 25 Feb 2014

ReneSola Announces Opening of New Office in Lyon, France

ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company"), a leading brand and technology provider of solar photovoltaic ("PV") products, today announced it has opened a new office in Lyon, France. The office will provide regional sales and customer support services.

25 Feb 2014

Delay in Blood Harvest Could Help Horseshoe Crabs

New research from Plymouth State University and the University of New Hampshire indicates that collecting and bleeding horseshoe crabs for biomedical purposes causes short-term changes in their behavior and physiology that could exacerbate the crabs' population decline in parts of the east coast.

25 Feb 2014

New Report on Biofuels for Transportation Markets

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Biofuels for Transportation Markets

25 Feb 2014

First Digital Atlas of Historical Sea Ice Concentration for Alaska

Want to know how much of the Beaufort Sea was covered in ice in January 1850? You can now do so, thanks to a new website developed with support from by the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS), a region of the NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

25 Feb 2014

Fortum Signs Leasing Agreement with Wave Hub to Test Wave Power Solutions

Fortum has signed a leasing agreement with the UK-based Wave Hub in order to test wave power solutions off the coast of Cornwall. The agreement provides Fortum with a new opportunity to rapidly deploy advanced, full-scale wave power converters in ocean conditions.

25 Feb 2014

New Technique Avoids Expensive Enzymes for Production of Second Generation Biofuels

Producing second-generation biofuel from dead plant tissue is environmetally friendly - but it is also expensive because the process as used today needs expensive enzymes, and large companies dominate this market. Now a Danish/Iraqi collaboration presents a new technique that avoids the expensive enzymes.

25 Feb 2014

PV Expo: JinkoSolar to Launch New Smart Module Series

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company"), a global leader in the solar PV industry, today announced that it will launch a new series of Smart Modules at the PV Expo in Japan on February 26, 2014.

25 Feb 2014

Hitachi Awards Canadian Solar 18MW Solar Module Supply Agreement

Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company" or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that it has been awarded a module supply agreement to provide 18MW of photovoltaic ("PV") modules to Hitachi, Ltd. ("Hitachi") for a solar power project in Japan. The project is owned by Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation with Hitachi as its EPC contractor.

From Hitachi, Ltd. 25 Feb 2014

Alterra Power Acquires 202 MW Shannon Wind Project in Clay County, Texas

Alterra Power Corp. has completed the acquisition of 100% of the Shannon wind project, a 202 MW wind farm in late-stage development in Clay County, Texas. Alterra acquired the project from Horn Wind, LLC, a north Texas early-stage wind developer that has successfully developed two other wind farms in the region.

25 Feb 2014

ZSW Commissions ThyssenKrupp to Build Fully Automated Pilot Line for Lithium Ion Batteries

Industrial-scale solar energy and hydrogen technologies are important elements of a sustainable energy supply. Demand for efficient battery cells and battery systems as energy storage devices is growing. ThyssenKrupp System Engineering, a subsidiary of engineering specialist ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, has now been commissioned by the energy research center Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) in Ulm, Germany, to design and build a fully automated pilot line for the formation of lithium-ion-based battery cells.

25 Feb 2014

HVCC Supplies Multiple Technologies for Hyundai’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. is supplying an array of technologies to support the world's first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle manufactured by Hyundai Motor Group.

24 Feb 2014

Hanwha SolarOne’s Solar Modules Receive ISO 14067 Carbon Footprint Certification

Hanwha SolarOne Co., Ltd., a global leading photovoltaic (PV) provider of high-quality, cost competitive solar photovoltaic modules, is among the first PV manufacturers to have its solar modules certified with the new international standard for carbon footprint assessment, ISO 14067. The certificates were issued by German safety standard authority TÜV Rheinland in January 2014.

24 Feb 2014