Posts Tagged ‘US’
24 May 2013
Chinese solar panel makers are seeking trade settlements with the US and the EU in order to avoid steep import duties in what their two biggest markets.
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13 May 2013
Californian solar cell maker Solaria has established operations in China as it works on the construction of utility-sized facilities in the country.
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7 May 2013
General Electric said its wind business saw orders of 1GW following the ruling of the production tax credit at the start of the year.
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1 May 2013
Spanish utility Abengoa has been chosen by Rentech Nitrogen Partners to construct a $30m cogeneration plant in Texas.
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1 May 2013
The US Energy Department will invest $13m into developing advanced components and technologies to boost performance of marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems.
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30 April 2013
Greenbriar Capital CEO Jeff Ciachurski told NewNet that its newly-formed joint venture with Alterra Power through which it will target the Puerto Rican solar market could see the pair install 300MW of capacity.
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30 April 2013
The US is the most attractive country in terms of using its tax regime to drive sustainable corporate behaviour and achieve green policy goals.
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23 April 2013
The Department of Energy (DOE) has seized $21m from struggling electric car maker Fisker Automotive.
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19 April 2013
The solar industry is facing serious issues throughout the world, with bankruptcies occurring at some of the largest Chinese solar firms, European firms reporting losses and divesting assets, and a downsizing of the world’s largest solar project in the US.
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19 April 2013
The US ethanol lobby has asked Washington to put the brakes on government biofuel targets in an acknowledgement of a widening gap between policy goals and reality at petrol stations.
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18 April 2013
American retail giant Walmart is planning to generate or source seven million gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by the end of 2020 in a move that will save it $1bn per year.
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16 April 2013
IKEA has completed the largest rooftop solar array in the US state of Maryland atop its distribution centre in Perryville.
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11 April 2013
US cleantech deals and funding hit multi-year lows with less than $500m of total financing awarded to the cleantech sector in the first quarter for 2013, a new report shows.
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11 April 2013
Duke Energy Renewables has acquired two solar projects from SolarWorld with a combined generation capacity of 21MW.
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11 April 2013
Solar energy development company SunEdison, a unit of MEMC Electronic Materials, has received a $35m loan from the North American Development bank to build a project at a US air force base in Arizona.
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9 April 2013
The US Department of Energy and the Department of Treasury will make $150m available in Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy and energy efficiency manufacturing projects.
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9 April 2013
US renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris will receive $30m of funding from French oil company and shareholder, Total.
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9 April 2013
Solar crowdfunding startup Mosaic is to make another $100m investment into Californian solar.
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8 April 2013
Water-focused clean technology company Puricore has signed a $14m water treatment deal with a top-five US supermarket retailer.
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4 April 2013
Algenetix, a US-based industrial biotech company, has closed a $2m series A-1 funding round.
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