New England Clean Energy Council

12/03/2008 - Chemrec, a company specializing in black liquor gasification, recently announced the completion of a $20 million funding round...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

11/24/2008 - Sugar cane and jatropha are the best biofuel feedstocks for use in developing countries, a United Nations-backed report has concluded...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...