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Garnaut backs farm carbon sequestration – Stock and Land

Garnaut backs farm carbon sequestration Stock and Land – 57 minutes ago Big changes in land use are forecast, and almost recommended, as one of the key ingredients to dealing with climate change in Australia, with economist Ross Garnaut … [Read More]

Spire Recognized as One of the Fastest-Growing Public Companies in Massachusetts

BEDFORD, MA – September 30, 2008 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced it has been recognized by the Boston Business [Read More]

Twice as Nice: Combining a Wind Farm and Solar Energy in Italy

Companies that specialize in harvesting renewable energy tend to focus in one area, whether it’s solar, waves or wind power. Moncada Energy Group, s.r.l., an Italian maker of wind farm technology, is breaking with that model and plans to by the end of next year erect [Read More]

Solar Power Partners Secures $160 Million in Financing

Solar Power Partners, Inc., a national commercial solar energy services provider, announced it has closed close to $100 million of equity and debt financing to date.   RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]

Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age

Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 has become the "blankest year" of the Space Age. Sunspot counts are at a 50-year low, signifying a deep minimum in the 11-year cycle of solar activity.   RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]

Coal in question

The goal of carbon capture and storage (CCS), also called carbon sequestration, is to take carbon dioxide that would have been emitted into the atmosphere from new or existing power plants (usually coal) and instead store it someplace, … [Read More]

GAO Report On Federal Actions On Carbon Capture & Storage

Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, who requested the study said, “If carbon sequestration technologies are going to get off — and into — the ground, we must have national … [Read More]

DOE to Invest $17.6 Million in Six Early-Stage Photovoltaic Projects

DOE will invest up to $17.6 million in six early-stage photovoltaic (PV) projects under the Solar America Initiative’s “PV Incubator” project, which funds prototype PV components and systems with the goal of moving them through the commercialization [Read More]

Clean Cities’ Odyssey Day Celebrates Success in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

DOE launched the 2008 kickoff of the Clean Cities National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey, marking the first of more than 80 events that will promote petroleum-free choices in transportation in over 60 locations across the nation. [Read More]

Rhode Island Chooses Deepwater Wind for Off-Shore Wind Farm

Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri announced last week that Deepwater Wind was chosen as the developer to construct a wind energy project off the shores of Rhode Island that could provide 1.3 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity per year, 15 percent of all [Read More]

Fraunhofer ISE Researchers Achieve 39.7% Solar Cell Efficiency

At 39.7% efficiency for a multijunction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own efficiency record of 37.6%, which they achieved in July of this year. The result was reached using multijunction [Read More]

Fotowatio Acquires Four Solar Plants

Four solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants collectively rated at 32 megawatts (MW) have been acquired by Spanish solar firm Fotowatio. Located in Murcia, Spain, the four grid-connected plants, Calasparra I & II and Fuente Alamo II & III, were sold by GA Solar, a [Read More]

The Vatican Shines a Light on Solar Power

The first solar panels have been installed on top of the papal audience hall at Vatican City.   RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]

Wind turbines proposed at Virginia City; some opposition

The first wind energy project proposed in Virginia City is stirring up some controversy.   RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]

Horizon Wind opens new development office in Minneapolis

Horizon Wind Energy has opened a development office in Minneapolis to lead the company’s expansion in the Upper Midwest region of the US.   RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]

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