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23 August 2010
The Chinese government will implement three standards to regulate electric vehicle charging stations this October and is set to develop a further five, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said.
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23 August 2010
The California Energy Commission siting committee has recommended the approval of NextEra Energy Resource’s planned Genesis solar energy project in Riverside County.
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23 August 2010
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Program has launched a $15m research and development funding opportunity for companies to innovate geothermal heat recovery methods.
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20 August 2010
Wastewater-focused Pressure Pipe Inspection Company (PPIC), which is backed by cleantech investor Emerald Technology Ventures, has been sold to Pure Technologies for up to CAN$34.9m ($33.26m) in cash and common stock.
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20 August 2010
Electricity provider China Longyuan Power Group’s sales of electricity from wind power hit more than RMB2.1m ($309,000) during the half, which exceeded the RMB1.8m ($265,000) it gained from sales of coal.
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20 August 2010
Thin-film product provider AU Optronics (AUO), which formed a solar business last year, announced that it will establish a $10m joint television panel module manufacturing venture with Wistron to broaden its customer base.
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20 August 2010
As a result of a rebounding US solar market and strengthened European operations, US renewable energy developer Premier Power generated sales far higher than those for the previous quarter and last year’s second quarter.
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20 August 2010
Solar module developer Universal Solar Technology has closed a $183,500 deal to produce and ship 120,000 solar wafers to China-based solar company Sinodeu New Energy.
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20 August 2010
Horizon power has completed and opened Australia’s first hybrid solar diesel power station, showcasing the potential for decentralised renewable energy with intermittency managed by a residual fossil based power source.
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20 August 2010
Global solar wafer and module equipment manufacturer ReneSola has signed agreements with two big Taiwan-listed solar companies to supply 836MW of monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar wafers.
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20 August 2010
Duvas Technologies, a technology provider of air pollutant monitors spun out of Imperial College in the UK, has raised £915,000 of additional equity and loan capital from existing and new shareholders.
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20 August 2010
Swiss-based power and automation technology group ABB, has opened a wind part manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India.
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20 August 2010
EDF Energies Nouvelles’ renewable energy development subsidiary enXco has made a small equity investment in Solaria and will buy its solar modules under a new five-year global supply agreement.
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20 August 2010
Barclays raised its outlook for solar stocks this week, estimating that solar demand for 2011 will be 16GW, notably higher than the current industry consensus of 13.7GW.
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20 August 2010
China Electronic Holdings has raised a series of equity offerings totalling $5.25m in an oversubscribed round just weeks after going public in a share exchange with Buyonate in July.
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20 August 2010
Canadian Solar has been forced to revise its fourth quarter of 2009 figures, reducing its net revenue and income after a federal investigation raised question marks over certain deals it recorded during the period.
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20 August 2010
Japan will make subsidies available to clean energy and energy efficiency products in order to boost the nation’s economy, according to local media.
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20 August 2010
The French government has agreed to invest €1.35bn in a renewable energy and green chemistry demonstration programme.
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20 August 2010
Next month will see the launch of the South West Cleantech Co-investment Fund, which will provide a co-investment of between £50,000 and £100,000 to cleantech businesses based in the UK’s south-west region.
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20 August 2010
Duke Energy Carolinas has abandoned its plan to place up to three demonstration wind turbines in the largest lagoon in North Carolina, US under a contract signed last year with the local university, in order to focus on large-scale wind development on the state’s ocean coast.
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