Archive for January, 2012
12 January 2012
The UK's Loughborough University has been selected by waste solutions company Cynar to aid the commercialisation of its plastic waste-to-diesel technology.
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12 January 2012
US cleantech company BlueChip Energy has signed a land lease agreement with the City of Eustis, Florida, to develop 300 acres of land into a 60MW solar plant.
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12 January 2012
The shares of Vestas, one of the most globally-recognised names in the wind business, continued to fall today as CEO Ditlev Engel said he understood if the public views it to be in a state of crisis.
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12 January 2012
A consortium led by Spanish energy major Iberdrola has thrown its hat into the ring and up the ante of the French wind energy tender.
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12 January 2012
The biomass sector has generated a certain amount of controversy due to the perceived impact it is having on food supply, but some companies are proving feedstocks do not have to be grown on a large scale to produce energy.
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12 January 2012
Emerging technologies that can produce power that is fed into the grid from waste is changing the landscape of how rubbish is managed in Europe.
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12 January 2012
A major new wind energy business has hinted that it will invest up to £1bn in the UK market before 2020.
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12 January 2012
US company the Public Service Enterprise Group Solar Source has purchased a 25.2MW photovoltaic project being developed by Germany-based juwi solar, for around $75m.
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12 January 2012
Solar company China Sunergy has officially confirmed the appointment of Yongfei Chen as chief financial officer.
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12 January 2012
US photovoltaic inverter manufacturer Solectria Renewables expanded its workforce by 65 per cent in 2011 with plans to increase it by a further 50 per cent this year.
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12 January 2012
US alternative fuel company CoolPlanet Biofuels has received permission from the California Air Resources Board to begin fleet-testing its negative carbon gasoline product.
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12 January 2012
US technology company Honeywell has formed an agreement with the Tianjing Economic-Technological Development Area to implement a smart grid response project in China.
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12 January 2012
An India diversified industrial company will look to dramatically increase its spend in renewables going forward with a target of building a capacity of 100MW.
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12 January 2012
A European solar panel manufacturer that entered receivership in 2011 has received a number of ‘expressions of interest’ but no deal has yet been finalised. Photowatt, the French subsidiary of Canada-based ATS Automation Tooling Systems, announced in November that it had officially decided to file for bankruptcy. At the time it was reported that ATS[...]
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12 January 2012
A US state has begun making investments from a clean power funding pot, but local businesses and other groups are still eligible to apply for cash.
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12 January 2012
Washington is paralysed by fear and a pull back on clean energy economic development seems likely. But a new report has found that state clean energy funds do hold a partial answer.
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12 January 2012
German wind energy company REpower Systems has been contracted to supply turbines with a combined capacity of 150MW for a project in Oklahoma, US.
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12 January 2012
US energy storage company PowerGenix has formed a joint venture with the Chinese government's China City Construction Corporation to develop, manufacture and sell advanced batteries for the automobile and other markets.
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12 January 2012
Danish wind energy giant Vestas is set to make 2,335 employees redundant as part of a strategy to reduce fixed costs by more than €150m by the end of 2012.
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12 January 2012
The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation is helping to mitigate risk for US cleantech companies developing projects in emerging markets.
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