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30th September 2009
Renewable Energy Generation has agreed to sell Canadian independent wind developer AIM PowerGen Corporation to UK energy utility International Power Canada, Inc. for CAN$119m.
30th September 2009
US methanol fuel cell developer Mechanical Technology (MTI) has been awarded a contract worth up to $6.5m five year contract for repairs and services on diagnostic devices on US air force planes through subsidiary company MTI Instruments (MTII).
30th September 2009
Oklahoma power provider OG&E has awarded contracts for 280MW of wind power development to CPV Keenan and Edison Mission Energy in the state.
30th September 2009
German industrial group Wacker Chemie has exited its solar wafer business and will transfer its shares in joint venture Wacket Schott Solar (WSS) to its former partner Schott Solar. Wacker and Schott Solar have reached agreement on the key points of a sales transaction.
30th September 2009
NRG Energy, headquartered in New Jersey, USA has begun a pilot project at the Company’s Big Cajun II electrical generating station in Louisiana, USA to evaluate local conditions for growing switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum as renewable biomass fuels. These locally grown grasses will be further tested to determine their capacity to replace a portion of the coal at the plant and reduce its carbon intensity, the company said.
30th September 2009
Austrian biomass power plant developer Cycleenergy Beteiligungs has raised €10m in second round funding. Portugese private equity firm Banif Investment Managers led the round with a €6m investment through its New Energy Fund, with participation from 3i, a London fund advised by 3TS Capital Partners, and Cycleenergy GmbH.
30th September 2009
Spanish renewable energy company Iberdrola has opened an office in Bucharest, Romania, to increase its presence in the Eastern European marketplace. The company has 1,600MW of wind projects in the pipeline across Romania, with 700MW worth at an advanced administrative phase, according to a statement.
30th September 2009
German wind power provider REpower systems has erected the first of six wind turbines, each generating 5MW of power, at the alpha ventus offshore test field in Germany.
30th September 2009
OriginOil, an algae-based biofuels developer, launched a production system using a type of algae that attaches itself to growth surfaces. The new system helps pursue clean water goals while generating algae for fuel and other valuable products in wastewater treatment plants.
30th September 2009
Finnish industrial group Ensto and Nordic energy company Fortum have worked together to develop a new type of recharging point for electric vehicles.
30th September 2009
American Superconductor Corporation, an alternative energy technologies company, and Beijing-based wind turbine manufacturer Sinovel have signed a new contract worth more than $100m for core electrical components to be utilised in Sinovel’s 3MW wind turbines. AMSC expects to begin shipping sets of core components under the new contract in March 2010 and to complete all shipments by the end of calendar year 2011.
30th September 2009
SolarCity and US Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC) have doubled the size of their fund to finance solar projects. The fund, originally announced in June, will be expanded to finance $100m in solar projects in 2009. The partnership backs SolarCity’s solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPA), financing options that can allow homeowners and businesses to put no money down on solar systems and save money from day one on electricity costs.
30th September 2009
Cyclone Power Technologies has said that the Korean Intellectual Property Office has issued a notice of decision to grant the company a patent on its heat regenerative external combustion engine.
30th September 2009
German manufacturer of thin-film manufacturer Odersun has appointed Uwe Hering as chief sales and marketing officer.
29th September 2009
Solar energy developer SolFocus has partnered with renewable energies developer Dreen Europe and Portuguese utility Águas de Portugal to install 8.5MW of power of concentrator photovoltaic technologies at its facilities. The project is part of ADP Group’s plan to invest more than €830m by 2014 in renewable energy projects.
29th September 2009
Renewable energy company RWE npower has signed a multi-million pound deal with papermaker Tullis Russell to supply its paper mill with heat and electricity from a biomass-fuelled co-generation plant. The new plant will replace the existing coal-fired plant and has an energy production capacity of 50MW.
29th September 2009
Boston solar firm Spire Corporation has entered into a commercial agreement to provide Uni-CHEM, a Korean producer of leather products, with a 60MW per year turnkey solar cell line and a 50MW per year module line. The deal is worth an estimated $60m.
29th September 2009
The European Investment Bank is to lend up to €500m to build wind capacity and green power infrastructure in Ireland.
29th September 2009
The Swedish Energy R&D Board is to provide an investment grant for demonstration in industrial scale of the Chemrec technology for production of renewable motor fuels.
29th September 2009
South Korean ultracapacitor manufacturer Nesscap has secured $9m in bridge funding from local and international investors. The round was led by London venture fund I2BF, a specialist in diversified clean energy investments in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
29th September 2009
AIM-listed investment fund Ludgate Environmental Fund has released its end of year results to 30 June 2009. The fund focuses on companies with products or services which optimise the use of natural resources while reducing environmental impact has achieved a £15m increase in Net Asset Value (NAV) to £50.4m from £35.4m in 2008 of which, £21.1m is currently invested. Approximately £1.6m was earned in interest income and dividends from these investments. The NAV per share at year end was 110p, as a result, the directors have been able to recommend a dividend of 1.5p per share.
29th September 2009
The UK Government has launched a new £20m government-backed venture capital support fund for clean energy technologies.
29th September 2009
San Francisco solar electricity provider Recurrent Energy has launched its European operations with 4.8MW of rooftop solar power in Spain. The firm was awarded a feed-in tariff commission by the Spanish government for the projects, which will be located in Madrid and Barcelona and are expected to come on-stream in mid 2010.
29th September 2009
German solar manufacturer SOLON has signed an agreement with Israeli company Pretium Renewable Energy aimed at cooperating in the Israeli photovoltaic market.
29th September 2009
Canadian renewable energy company Plutonic Power Corporation has appointed Phil Fontaine and David O’Brien to the company’s board of directors.
29th September 2009
The Sub-Saharan African biofuels market should experience rapid growth in the next five years, according to a report by growth partnership service Frost & Sullivan.
29th September 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must acknowledge the full extent of the uncertainty in its estimation of biofuels’ lifecycle and ensure that biofuel technologies are not pre-emptively disqualified from participation in the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to Washington DC-based industry body the Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO).
29th September 2009
Environmental technology company Monsal has finished the first phase of planning, pre-design and support for a food anaerobic digestion and renewable energy plant located in the town of March in Cambridgeshire, UK that will power 1,500 homes.
29th September 2009
The CEOs of twelve Irish cleantech companies have travelled to Silicon Valley, California as part of Enterprise Ireland’s first dedicated Clean Tech Trade mission.
29th September 2009
US solar energy services provider SunEdison has named Jason Gray as director of Canadian operations. Gray joined SunEdison in 2008 as a project developer, and has been managing the company’s solar development activities in Canada.
28th September 2009
Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc. has agreed to acquire the rights to a 4,400MW offshore wind prospect in Ontario from Wasatch Wind, Inc., a private US-based renewable energy company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
28th September 2009
Solar cell, module and custom application provider Canadian Solar has relocated its headquarters to Kitchener, Ontario. The Canadian Solar headquarters will now be located in Green on the Ground, Canada’s first C-2000 compliant building.
28th September 2009
Chinese solar product manufacturer ReneSola has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Dynamic Green Energy in exchange for a $10m convertible promissory note and nearly 26 million ReneSola shares.
28th September 2009
DP CleanTech said the specialised straw firing technology and expertise from Bioener will further increase its value proposition to its customers as well as contribute significantly to the group’s extensive reference list globally. Together Bioener and DP CleanTech have over 35 biomass power plant references globally on multiple different fuel types.
28th September 2009
Amtech Systems, an Arizona, US-based supplier of production and automation systems and consumables for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, said that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, has received a follow-on multi-system order for its diffusion processing equipment from an existing customer in Asia. The order for multiple systems is expected to ship within the next six to nine months.
28th September 2009
German technology group Siemens has stated that it wants to receive orders worth more than €6bn for intelligent power networks over the next five years.
28th September 2009
The Canadaian Government is to invest over $70m in an ethanol production plant belonging to Canadian energy provider Husky Energy, and approximately $5.4m over the next seven years in the Canadian production wing of New York biodiesel firm Methes Energies International. The funding will be used to develop the Canadian renewable fuel sectors and stimulate job creation and the local economy at the site of the plants, Lloydminster, Sasketchewan, and Mississauga, Ontario.
28th September 2009
The UK Government has launched a £10m fund to award the best low carbon community projects as part of the Low Carbon Communities Challenge.
28th September 2009
British landfill gas generation company ENER-G has been contracted to construct a third landfill waste disposal facility in Lithuania to convert landfill gases into electricity.
28th September 2009
Amid growing public demand for clean energy, Ausra Solar has created a place for itself in the burgeoning global solar industry. Tom Bartolomei, senior vice president of the company, quashes concerns that the solar sector is too heavily dependent upon subsidies, arguing that the huge market opportunities means it will have a key role to play as the developed world looks to transform its energy usage.
25th September 2009
US-based Waste Management and the city of McMinnville’s utility, McMinnville Water & Light will soon use everyday garbage to generate power for thousands of homes in the US state of Oregon, following the groundbreaking of Waste Management’s new energy plant at the company’s landfill west of McMinnville.
25th September 2009
Thin-film solar photovoltaic module producer Ascent Solar Technologies has signed an agreement with Ohio-based Energy Technologies to develop PV products for the US Military.
25th September 2009
The Department of Energy Climate Change (DECC) has launched a consultation which aims to harness the huge potential of the North Sea for storing CO2 ahead of an upcoming forum to be held in October 2009. The consultation proposes the regulatory framework to ensure that exploration, development and management of the potential storage sites is safely carried out and effectively coordinated with other uses of the sea.
25th September 2009
Spire Corporation, a global solar company, has set up wholly-owned subsidiary, Spire Taiwan to be based in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
25th September 2009
Energy and Climate Change Minister David Kidney has launched the Marine Renewable Proving Fund (MRPF), designed to assist applicants for the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund.
25th September 2009
New Mexico, Governor Bill Richardson has launched a raft of federal stimulus funds worth $10m for the development of photovoltaic (PV) or solar electric systems in public schools across the South-western US state.
Education Secretary Veronica C García, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Secretary Joanna Prukop and former Governor Toney Anaya joined Governor Richardson for the [...]
25th September 2009
US solar energy services provider, SunEdison, received its first grant in lieu of investment tax credit under Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Following the award notification by the Department of Treasury, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu invited Carlos Domenech, COO of SunEdison, to participate in a White House [...]
25th September 2009
More than $106m in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being awarded to nine states to support energy efficiency and conservation activities. Under the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) programme, these states will implement programmes that lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution, and create green jobs locally.
25th September 2009
FPL Group and Duke Energy have pledged their commitment to transforming their company cars and trucks into plug-in hybrid or all-electric vehicles.
25th September 2009
American renewable energy company U.S. Geothermal has started development drilling at the Neal Hot Springs Geothermal Project in Oregon for up to three wells that will eventually be used to provide energy for a 22MW electricity plant.
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