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23 March 2009
In his weekly address, US President Barack Obama said his focus would be upon securing a greener economy as a means to tackle the vast financial difficulties facing the country.
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23 March 2009
US solar technology company Sunrise Solar Corp has joined the National Black Chamber of Commerce Public Policy Group which incorporates energy companies such as Chevron and Exxon as well as financial services company Wells Fargo.
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23 March 2009
Wind has become the leading form of renewable energy, according to Arthouros Zervos, president of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
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20 March 2009
Mike O'Brien, the UK energy and climate change minister, has stressed the importance of creating an energy supply that is predictable, adequate and financially-viable.
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20 March 2009
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has offered a $535m loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc. to support the company's construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for solar photovoltaic panels.
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20 March 2009
European solar energy technology manufacturer Solar-Fabrik has opened a new production facility for manufacturing solar power modules in Freiburg, Germany. The new plant increases the overall capacity by 60MW to a total of 130MW.
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20 March 2009
William T Fejes has been appointed to US renewable energy company Broadwind Energy's board of directors.
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20 March 2009
Global Energy Holdings Group, a renewable energy company, has completed the sale of all of its shares of common stock of New Generation Biofuels Holdings to 2020 Energy, an Arizona-based limited liability company.
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20 March 2009
UK wood recycling company Growing Beds has signed a joint venture agreement with Bioflame, a waste-to-energy company, to construct a 2.5MW renewable energy power station with a capacity of 20,000MW hours per annum.
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20 March 2009
US electricity utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) signed a 15-year contract with Gas Recover Systems to acquire roughly 1.5MW of renewable energy from a plant that generates electricity from landfill methane gas
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20 March 2009
First Solar has produced 1GW of its solar modules since starting commercial production in 2002.
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20 March 2009
European energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs welcomed the decision made by european electricity companies to achieve a carbon-neutral power supply by 2050.
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20 March 2009
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, US President Barack Obama has launched two programmes that will boost the development of electric vehicles in the US.
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20 March 2009
EcoSystem Corporation has submitted a grant application to the US Department of Energy's Biomass Research and Development Initiative, for the company's proprietary bioconversion technology.
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19 March 2009
Danish Pension Fund ATP is to commit up to $400m to a fund managed by US clean energy-focused private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners. Investments will target solar, wind and hydro energy, as well as new forms of energy, such as biofuels and biomass.
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19 March 2009
Enerkem, a biofuels technology company, plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels production facility in Mississippi, US. In addition, the company has signed an agreement with the Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority of Mississippi (TRSWMA) for the supply of around 189,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per year as feedstock.
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19 March 2009
US smart grid company Silver Spring Networks has raised an additional $15m in a $90m Series D funding round, according to reports.
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19 March 2009
Evergreen Solar, a solar producer manufacturer, has entered into an agreement with RMT of Wisconsin to co-market to electric utilities and project developers of utility scale solar power projects.
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19 March 2009
GE Water, a unit of power distributor GE Energy, and the National University of Singapore have signed an agreement worth $100m to develop a water technology center on the NUS campus.
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19 March 2009
Global system revenues for sub-utility scale renewable distributed energy generation (RDEG) grew 76 per cent between 2007 and 2008. The revenues grew to an estimated $29.9bn at the end of last year, according toa new report from Pike Research. The report also predicted that the revenues will more than double to $60.6bn by 2013.
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