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Chemrec Completes $20 Million Funding Round for Paper Mill to Biofuel Technology

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 00:00
12/03/2008 - Chemrec, a company specializing in black liquor gasification, recently announced the completion of a $20 million funding round...
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BP and Chinese Academy of Sciences to Establish Clean Energy Commercialization Center

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 00:00
12/03/2008 - BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently agreed to establish the Clean Energy Commercialisation Center (CECC) joint venture in Shanghai, jointly investing some $73 million to commercialize Chinese clean energy technologies...
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SunPower and City Solar Sign 100-Megawatt, Three-Year Customer Agreement

Tue, 12/02/2008 - 00:00
12/02/2008 - SunPower Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, recently announced it has signed a customer contract with German solar power plant integrator City Solar Kraftwerke AG...
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Southern California Edison Completes First of its Major Commercial Rooftop Solar Installations

Tue, 12/02/2008 - 00:00
12/02/2008 - Southern California Edison (SCE) recently announced completion of the first of its proposed 150 solar photovoltaic installations on Southern California commercial rooftops...
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Tapping America's Secret Power Source

Mon, 12/01/2008 - 00:00
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Saft and ABB Develop New Battery System to Enhance the Stability of Power Distribution Grids

Mon, 12/01/2008 - 00:00
12/01/2008 - Saft and ABB have developed a high voltage Li-ion (lithiumion) battery system designed to improve the stability of power distribution grids...
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Sharp and Enel to Form Thin-Film Joint Venture in Italy

Fri, 11/28/2008 - 00:00
11/28/2008 - Sharp Corporation and Italy's largest power company, Enel SpA, recently announced that they will establish a joint venture in the spring of 2009 to operate as an independent power producer and will develop a number of photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 189 MW by the end of 2012...
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Project FROG Gets $8 Million in Series B Financing

Fri, 11/28/2008 - 00:00
11/28/2008 - San Francisco-based Project FROG, a smart building start-up, recently announced that it has closed an $8 million Series B financing led by RockPort Capital Partners...
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Belarus Plans to Increase Power Generated From Renewables to 25% by 2012

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 00:00
11/26/2008 - In a move aimed at reducing Belarus' dependence on imported gas for its power generation, the country is planning to increase electricity generated from renewable sources to 25% by 2012...
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SunPower Announces Completion of 18MW Solar Power Plant in Spain

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 00:00
11/26/2008 - SunPower, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, recently announced the completion of the 18-megawatt Olivenza solar electric power plant in Badajoz, Spain...
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Chancellor Darling Unveils $811 Million 'Green Stimulus' in UK

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 00:00
11/25/2008 - UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has unveiled a $811 million "green stimulus" and committed to retaining the Renewable Obligation till 2037, in his Pre-Budget report presented to the House of Commons...
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Clear Standards Gets $4 Million in Financing for Carbon Management

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 00:00
11/25/2008 - Clear Standards, Inc., a provider of enterprise carbon management and sustainability solutions, recently announced it has secured $4 million in Series A financing from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Kinetic Ventures...
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UN Report: Sugar Cane and Jatropha Best for Biofuels in Developing Nations

Mon, 11/24/2008 - 00:00
11/24/2008 - Sugar cane and jatropha are the best biofuel feedstocks for use in developing countries, a United Nations-backed report has concluded...
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Danotek Motion Technologies Raises $14.5 Million for High-Efficiency Wind Turbine Generators

Mon, 11/24/2008 - 00:00
11/24/2008 - Bolstering its contribution of high-efficiency and cost-saving generators to the $37 billion wind industry, Danotek Motion Technologies recently announced that it has raised $14...
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Fisker Picks GM for Karma Engine

Mon, 11/24/2008 - 00:00
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SunRun Races for Residential Customers

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 00:00
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Oregon BEST and BPA to Fund Wind Energy Storage Research

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 00:00
11/21/2008 - A proposal from Oregon State University researchers to the Bonneville Power Administration to explore new ways of controlling, storing and releasing power generated by wind turbines has been funded in part because the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) was able to supply needed matching funds at a critical time...
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Better Place and Bay Area Leaders Announce $1 Billion Electric Car Network for Region

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 00:00
11/21/2008 - At a recent press conference held in San Francisco City Hall, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with the Mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, joined together with the Bay Area Council, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and Better Place of Palo Alto to announce a sweeping plan to reinvigorate the state and region's competitive advantage in innovative technology through public-private investments in electric vehicles and other elements of "green" infrastructure...
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UK Government Completes First Auction of Credits Under EU ETS

Thu, 11/20/2008 - 00:00
11/20/2008 - The UK government has held Europe's first auction of carbon allowances in Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, with 4 million allowances sold for a total of $81 million...
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GridPoint Teams Up With NGK and Xcel Energy for Wind-to-Battery Project

Thu, 11/20/2008 - 00:00
11/20/2008 - GridPoint, Inc., a clean tech company whose smart grid software platform benefits electric utilities, consumers and the environment, recently announced that Xcel Energy selected GridPoint's software platform to control the flow of power between the grid and a NGK Insulators' sodium-sulfur battery storing wind energy...
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