Monthly Archives: February 2012

 Danbury, Connecticut, United States FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL) a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, today announced the signing of a multi-year service agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE) to operate and maintain the 1.4 megawatt Direct FuelCell® power plant previously purchased and located at California State University – San [...]

Wellington, New Zealand New guidelines for electric vehicle manufacturers and importers provide clarity about the regulations and rules for the safe use of electric vehicles in New Zealand. Released on 27 February 2012, the guidelines Deploying electric vehicles in New Zealand: A guide to the regulatory and market environment have been developed by the Energy [...]

Munich, Germany SolarEdge Technologies, a leading global provider of end-to-end solar power optimization systems and monitoring solutions, announced today the introduction of a new version of top efficiency, single phase solar inverters. The improved version of the built-in communication interface enables simplified and faster installation. The SolarEdge line of single phase inverters gained a 0.2%-0.4% [...]

San Angelo, Texas, United States Expanding its renewable energy portfolio in Texas, GE unit (NYSE: GE) GE Energy Financial Services has joined JP Morgan to jointly invest $225 million in a partnership that owns the 662.5-megawatt Capricorn Ridge wind farm in West Texas. A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC remains the majority owner and [...]

London, England UK’s largest trade union signs accord with renewable energy trade association Both recognise potential of green energy to generate tens of thousands of skilled jobs over next ten years Alliance between industry and union will secure conditions for massive industry expansion RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave and tidal industry, and [...]

Vancouver, Canada Finavera Wind Energy Inc. (“Finavera” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: FVR) today announced it has secured a $200,000 convertible promissory note (the “Note”). The Note will accrue interest at a rate of 12% per year, which will be payable in cash or common shares of the Company, at the Lenders’ option. The conversion price [...]

Bellshill, Scotland Europe’s largest wind farm set another record today when the first array of new turbines at the Whitelee extension, near Glasgow, were connected to the electricity grid and power was generated for the first time. The ScottishPower Renewables wind farm will have an operating capacity of 539 MW later this year when all [...]

Brussels, Belgium Ahead of the vote on the Energy Efficiency Directive on February 28th, COGEN Europe calls on the ITRE Committee to deliver a clearly strengthened energy efficiency and CHP policy for Europe While the existing CHP Directive entered into force more than 8 years ago, progresses have been slow at national level on designing [...]

Munich, Germany Canadian Solar (the “Company,” “we” or “Canadian Solar”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world’s largest solar companies, announced the supply of 2,800 solar modules for a rooftop system in the Danish city of Virum. The solar installation, north of Copenhagen, has a capacity of 605 kW, which makes it Denmark’s largest PV system. [...]

Berkeley, California, United States ARPA-E funded project aims to produce fuel molecules in plant leaves Mention biofuels and most people think of corn ethanol. Some may think of advanced biofuels from switchgrass or miscanthus. But tobacco? Not likely. That could change. A team of scientists led by a researcher from the U.S. Department of Energy’s [...]