Posts Tagged ‘green energy’
19 December 2011
A technology firm looking to build a scientific ghost town in New Mexico to serve as a hot bed for new technologies has identified green energy as one of its major priorities.
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27 October 2011
Bangladesh is seeking investors for its nascent green energy industry as its burgeoning population and its level of exposure to the affects of climate change impress upon it the need to adopt clean technologies.
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12 July 2011
UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has released the long awaited Electricity Market Reform, detailing the steps the government has designed to steer the country away from carbon-based electricity generation.
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29 June 2011
Sustainable energy company ENER-G has appointed Craig Allen for the newly created group manufacturing director position.
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28 June 2011
The European Investment Bank finalised a finance contract with cleantech company Corporación Gestamp for €125m to support its research, development and innovation activities for automotive metal applications.
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20 June 2011
US broadband green home management software and services company iControl has raised $50m in its latest funding round, bringing its total venture funding raised to $100m.
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23 May 2011
Two months on from the natural disasters that ravaged Japan’s infrastructure and economy, its government has said it is determined to plough forward with efforts in the field of sustainable development through trilateral cooperation.
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27 April 2011
South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group has reportedly revealed that it will invest $7.01bn in a green energy industrial park, after acquiring a series of wind farms in Canada in partnership with Pattern Energy.
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2 November 2010
Information technology giant Intel is the biggest user of green energy sources in the US, the latest data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows.
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16 September 2010
US-based power generation company NRG Energy has reached a definitive agreement to acquire retail renewable energy provider Green Mountain Energy for $350m in cash.
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18 August 2009
In early August, for the first time, US energy utility Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) transmission grid reached a milestone, carrying more than 2,000MW of wind power for more than an hour. This doubles the peak of 1,000MW recorded in January 2008, according to a statement. BPA a not-for-profit federal electric utility that operates a high-voltage[...]
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7 November 2008
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company has entered into a long-term agreement with Wacker Chemie to supply polysilicon.
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