Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
PelletSales.com: Jon Strimling, PelletSales.com President, to Address InterPellets 2008, Stuttgart, Germany on Wood Pellets Becoming Hottest Alternative Fuel in United States
GOFFSTOWN, NH and STUTTGART, GERMANY (MARKET WIRE) Jon Strimling, President of PelletSales.com and its parent American Biomass (http://www.pelletsales.com), will represent the United States at InterPellets 2008, the 8th Pellets Industry Forum to be held in the International [Read More]
Masdar to Invest in London Array
One fifth of the flagship 1 GW London Array offshore wind farm, planned for the Thames Estuary, is to be sold to Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy initiative Masdar. Under the terms of a deal with Germany’s E.ON, which owns 50% of the total stake, the companies are [Read More]
Masdar, E.ON form JV
E.ON, Germany’s largest utility, and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar have formed a joint venture to invest in the London Array offshore wind farm project, reported Bloomberg. Masdar, the renewable energy arm of Abu Dhabi’s government, bought 40% of E.ON’s [Read More]
Signet Starts Volume Production of Thin-film PV Modules
Signet Solar announced that it has begun volume production at its solar thin-film manufacturing facility in Mochau, Germany, after receiving Final Acceptance Test (FAT) certification from SGS Germany GmbH. RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]
CSI Signs 60-MW Deal with Systaic
Canadian Solar Inc. (CSI) announced that it has signed a sales contract with Systaic AG of Germany. Systaic will purchase 60 megawatts (MW) of regular solar modules for delivery in 2009. Systaic has been a customer of CSI since the beginning of 2008. RSS feeds and [Read More]
GE Energy Invests US$100M to Launch 2.5xl Wind Turbine
GE Energy announced it has already received more than one gigawatt of commitments for its 2.5xl wind turbine over the next year and a half. The company also announced the expansion of its wind turbine manufacturing facility in Salzbergen, Germany. The Salzbergen site will [Read More]
Solarmer Energy, Inc.: OSC 2008 — Solarmer Energy, Inc. to Present on Plastic Solar Cells With Greater Than 5% Efficiency
EL MONTE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Dr. Vishal Shrotriya, Director of Technology Development, will present Solarmer Energy, Inc.’s progress toward delivering commercial grade plastic solar cells and future plans at the Organic Semiconductor Conference in Frankfurt, Germany on [Read More]
Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground
Africa Becoming a Biofuel Battleground Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world’s biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises. But is this just another form of economic colonialism? [Read More]
U.S. must write — and underwrite — a new energy agenda
A solar thermal plant in California generates electricity. Almost 70 years ago, as Germany invaded France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received an urgent visit from Vannevar Bush, then chairman of the … RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com [Read More]
LDK and Q-Cells Sign 11-Year Wafer Processing Deal
LDK Solar Co., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed an 11-year processing service agreement to process upgraded metallurgical grade solar-grade silicon provided by Germany-based Q-Cells AG into wafers. News [Read More]
News Updates: Ice melt drama, testing carbon sequestration, states …
Coal test projects – how to sequester the carbon. First from Reuters:. Swedish energy company Vattenfall opened a small coal plant in Germany on Tuesday which will produce almost carbon-free power in a test of technology that could help … [Read More]
CARBON SEQUESTRATION: Germans to unveil clean-coal plant prototype
Engineers in Germany next week will unveil the world’s first coal-fired power plant that can capture and store its own carbon emissions. The Vattenfall plant emits 9 tonnes of carbon… [Read More]
Linde opens hydrogen filling station for fuel cell passenger ships
The Linde Group, an equipment supplier for hydrogen fueling stations, has opened a hydrogen filling station for fuel cell passenger ships in Hamburg, Germany. RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com – Mattress [Read More]
Masdar begins work on $230m photovoltaic plant
Masdar, a renewable energy company owned by the Abu Dhabi government, has announced that it has begun work on a $230m photovoltaic production plant in Ichterhausen, Germany. The 70 megawatt plant, part of Masdar’s plan to invest $2bn in thin-film photovoltaic [Read More]
Flabeg Facility in Pennsylvania Will Create 300 Jobs
State investments of US $9 million helped a Germany-based company choose Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for its first solar mirror production facility in the United States, creating 300 manufacturing jobs the state’s Governor Edward Rendell announced. Flabeg, a [Read More]
