United States Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed a state-federal partnership to expedite the processing of utility-scale solar energy projects and more than 130 renewable energy projects in the state.
French automaker Renault Group was granted a 180-million euro loan from the European Investment Bank for research and development efforts in creating the next generation of batteries and motors for electric vehicles.
The Middle East is slowly becoming a region to reckon with in regard to renewable energy investment, following news that Oman plans to build a massive solar project worth up to $2 billion together with foreign investors.
China report spells out grim climate change risks | Reuters
Seven hundred and ten pages?! Yowsers. Nonetheless it is encouraging to see this type of news continually coming from China, at least it isn’t being censored. The real trick will be how they actually do something about it.
(via stopkillingourworld)
Spanish company Gamesa is expanding into the Indian wind energy market.
Citing numbers from the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association, the company said it now has 10 percent of the Indian market share, making it the country’s third top wind energy manufacturing company.
Sunnyvale, California-based CIGS user AQT Solar Inc. took $18.7 million from investors as it prepares to double production capacity for its thin-film solar cells.
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corporation, Taisei Corporation and Sojitz Corporation were tasked by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment to conduct feasibility studies on solar power development in areas hit by last year’s earthquake and tsunami.
OriginOil Inc. and Idaho National Laboratory decided to move forward from their research agreement last December to jointly develop technology that can extract fuel from algae.
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Nanjing-based solar cell and module maker China Sunergy Company shipped 1.59 megawatts’ worth of solar panels to Emotion Energy which, working with Edison Energy, is installing the panels in 117 residential rooftops in Faifley, Scotland.
Electric vehicle developer Coda Automotive announced that Marvin K. Brown will be its exclusive dealer partner in San Diego County for their Coda 2012 sedan.
Alstom and two Brazilian groups will fix up the S~ao Sim~ao hydropower plant in the Parana’iba River in Brazil. S~ao Sim~ao has six generating units and is capable of producing of 1,710 megawatts of current, but is in need of refurbishment to improve its performance and life cycle. It was opened in 1978.
The University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center is developing a gasification power system to produce energy from coffee-processing plant waste.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a restraining order on the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that was set to start last January 1.
Madrid-based wind energy company Gamesa is entering the new year with several deals to increase its presence in the global market.
Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall will work with three French companies in a bid to capture a sizable chunk of the country’s hydropower sector.
