Monthly Archives: April 2012

London, England RenewableUK welcomes recognition by CPRE of importance of onshore wind in UK’s plans to tackle climate change CPRE concerns about overdevelopment misplaced – actual number of turbines planned for England less than a sixth of their recently claimed figure of 12,000 Support for wind in countryside strong – two-thirds of rural residents back [...]

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The US Department of Defense (DoD) has chosen ADB-Carmanah solar powered LED directional signs for use on a major DoD airfield in the Asia-Pacific region. The solar powered LED signs enhance safety on the airfield and simultaneously reduce the energy footprint for the DoD, aiding them in achieving their strategic clean [...]

 Berkeley, California, United States Berkeley Lab Researchers Direct the Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into Device-Ready Thin films Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have directed the first self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready materials. Through a relatively easy and inexpensive technique based on blending nanoparticles with [...]

Randers, Denmark – DTEK Group orders 30 V112-3.0 MW wind turbines for their project in Botievo With reference to Vestas Wind Systems A/S’ company announcement No. 18/2012 of 27 April 2012 Vestas, the world leader in wind energy, is pleased to announce another sale in the key emerging market of Ukraine. Vestas’ newest customer, the [...]

Novato, California, United States Construction of a 2.27-megawatt solar array-the largest photovoltaic array on any college or university campus in Ohio-will begin early next month on college property. The college has entered into a agreement with Spear Point Energy to purchase electricity from the array, which is scheduled to begin producing energy in September. “This [...]

Paris, France The authoritarian government of a major oil producer is facing a wave of strikes and demonstrations culminating in a revolution. Unfortunately, the main opposition force is interested in promoting its own extremist ideology rather than establishing democracy, and it launches a series of attacks against oil installations. This article appears in the second [...]

Baoding, China Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy” or the “Company”), a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which holds the brand “Yingli Solar”, today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2011 [...]

Randers, Denmark Vestas has secured a five-year service-contract extension for each of Infigen Energy’s four wind farms utilising Vestas turbines in Australia. The agreements cover a total of 367.6 MW of installed capacity comprising 166 turbines across the three stages of the Lake Bonney Wind Farm in South Australia and the Alinta Wind Farm in [...]

Shanghai, China JinkoSolar Modules Demonstrate Consistent High Performance in PHOTON Laboratory Tests Results indicate strong long-term performance potential JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), a fast-growing, vertically integrated solar power product manufacturer based in China, today announced that its mono- and multicrystalline solar modulesachieved high yield performance results in PHOTON Laboratory’s [...]

 London, England While progress is being made on renewable energy, most clean energy technologies are not being deployed quickly enough, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in an annual progress report presented to ministers and representatives of nations that together account for four-fifths of global energy demand. The report, Tracking Clean Energy Progress, highlighted [...]