Latest Sustainable energy Stories
Project will create significant jobs, revenue and clean energy for Ontario communities TORONTO, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More new jobs for Chatham-Kent and Ontario residents are a step closer to becoming a reality. Today, Samsung Renewable Energy, Inc. (Samsung) and Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) announced that they have secured financing for the 270 megawatt (MW) South Kent Wind project, which allows this important renewable energy project to move forward into the...
First Power and Light will use AE 75TX Solar Inverters for Solar Energy System at Mary Switzer Building FORT COLLINS, Colo., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS), today announced that its AE 75TX solar inverters have been selected by First Power and Light for a 147 kW solar energy system at the Mary Switzer Building, which when completed, will be the oldest federal building to utilize solar power in Washington, D.C. The entire system is...
Strategic corporate investor leads round with participation from all existing investors HAYWARD, California (PRWEB) March 11, 2013 (March 11, 2013) – Alphabet Energy Inc., the innovator of a platform silicon thermoelectric technology that generates power from a variety of waste-heat sources, announced today that it has closed $16 million in Series B financing. Corporate strategic investor Encana Corp., the Calgary, Alberta-based developer of natural gas and other energy sources, led the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Stanford University scientists have begun figuring out what grid-scale battery technologies are doing to the carbon footprint. Researchers have begun developing new batteries and other large-scale storage devices to stockpile surplus clean energy so they can store and deliver it on demand. However, fossil fuel required to build these technologies could negate some of the benefits of installing new solar and wind farms. "We...
WORCESTER, Mass., March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. (OTC: MMMW) is planning to exhibit a prototype of its new patented, 'Wind Electric Power Generator' with only seven moving components at the Denver Home Show being held at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado on the weekend of March 15, 2013 through March 17, 2013. This wind-based, power system produces reliable, low-cost, and clean energy that's well suited at remote and rural locations,...
TORONTO, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- REGEN Energy Inc(TM), developer of the wireless Swarm Energy Management(TM) demand management and demand response platform, announced today that it has partnered with well-respected electrical distributor Werner Electric Supply of Minnesota. REGEN Energy's Swarm Energy Management system will be offered as part of Werner Electric's lineup of Clean Energy products. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/LA73398LOGO) (Logo:...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) chose EXTRACTABLE, an award-winning data-driven digital agency, to lead a comprehensive web strategy for Californian residents and small businesses. The strategy will be used to develop a new Energy Upgrade California(TM) website to help users learn how to manage their energy use and to help California meet its energy efficiency, clean energy and climate change goals. EXTRACTABLE...
Cassidy Turley Earns Award for Protecting the Environment through Superior Energy Efficiency WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Cassidy Turley as a 2013 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for strategically managing and improving energy efficiency for its entire property management portfolio of office buildings as well as its occupier clients. Through its partnership with the ENERGY STAR program, Cassidy Turley has...
Fuel diversity, credit for early action critical components of national energy strategy MINNEAPOLIS, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Ben Fowke, chairman, president and CEO of Xcel Energy, addressed the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. His comments emphasized the critical role that fuel diversity, including fossil fuels and renewable resources, and federal incentives such as a customer renewable credit play in ensuring Americans have clean,...
Permanent debt is lined up for around $25 million in solar projects going online by Q3 2013 SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pristine Sun, LLC and Solar Mosaic, Inc. ("Mosaic") have executed several agreements to close on post-construction permanent loans on the first phase of a portfolio build-out of solar PV farms in California over the next nine months. Power from the six projects, totaling nearly 6 MW of Pristine Sun's 250 MW portfolio of mid-to-late-stage California...
