Monthly Archives: July 2012
New Wind of Innovation Will Lift the Cleantech Market
Identified the three key sectors that hold the next growth and investment opportunities After a healthy rebound in 2010 when the new investment in renewables grew by 30 percent, 2011 and beginning of 2012 were marred by waves of bad news: bankruptcies, profit warnings, staff layoffs . Furthermore, global cleantech indices showed a downward [...]
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Eco Wave Power for Its Path-Breaking Innovation in the Field Of Wave Energy Generation
The company has efficiently handled all the prominent challenges prevailing in the field to offer an effective and affordable energy harvesting solution Based on its recent analysis of the wave energy generation market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Eco Wave Power with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation for developing [...]
Hydro-Quebec CEO named Energy Person of the Year
The Energy Council of Canada has announced Thierry Vandal as the Canadian Energy Person of the Year for 2012, recognizing his leadership and him important contribution to Canada’s energy sector. To quote Greg Schmidt, President of the Energy Council of Canada, “The Canadian Energy Person of the Year Award recognizes Thierry Vandal as an [...]
New poll shows that Iowa voters are not likely to support an anti-wind candidate
The American Wind Energy Association is disappointed that the Romney campaign has come out with an anti-wind stance, particularly in Iowa, the state that gets 20% of its power from wind and the state with more major manufacturing facilities than any other. According to a statement to the Des Moines Register, the presidential candidate [...]
Native American Schools in Arizona to Install Wind Turbines: A Wind Powering America Success Story
Thanks to funding from the Arizona Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF), eight Native American schools in the state recently received $1.3 million to build renewable energy systems in their communities. Wind Powering America’s Arizona Wind for Schools project supported the development of three of the funded proposals: the Hopi Tribe Renewable Energy Office proposal [...]
GE’s Latest Central Inverter Technology Clears Path for Utilities to Boost Solar Energy Production Worldwide
GE’s ProSolar Inverter Allows BELECTRIC’s New Solar Station in Germany to Efficiently Convert and Deliver Renewable Electricity to Grid ProSolar System Plays Key Role in 1st Solar Power Station Rated at 1,500 Volts Marking a new technology milestone in the global effort to increase renewable energy production by driving down overall system costs, GE [...]
Trina Solar Announces Updates to Second Quarter 2012 Guidance
Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) (“Trina Solar” or the “Company”), a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, announced today the following updates to its previous guidance made for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company estimates its solar [...]
Suntech investigates Security Interest in Connection with GSF
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) (“Suntech” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company is conducting an investigation into a security interest Suntech received in connection with its investment in Global Solar Fund, S.C.A., Sicar (“GSF”). Based on recent review and inquiries, Suntech suspects that the collateral related to the security interest [...]
SolarCity Opens Expanded Albany Operations Center
Company Allows Local Businesses and Homeowners to Install Solar for Free and Pay Less for Solar Electricity than Utility Power SolarCity®, a national leader in clean energy services, has opened an expanded operations center in Albany that will bring new jobs and better energy options to New York businesses, non-profit organizations and homeowners. SolarCity [...]
Offshore use of vertical-axis wind turbines gets closer look
Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes. Though VAWTs have been around since the earliest days of wind energy research at Sandia and elsewhere, VAWT architecture could transform offshore wind technology. The economics of offshore [...]