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Solar news »
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HgCapital invests in solar and wind projects
- Global EcoPower and T-Solar to expand operations in France
- US silicon company 1366 Technologies raises $5.15m in venture capital
- P Solar expands Jabil Circuit Mexico deal
- SMG Indium completes $5.8m financing round
- Amplio Group closes on 6MW Italian solar plants
- ECD and Enfinity to devlop 10MW of solar installations
- Entech Solar agrees to sell $5m preferred stock to Socius Capital
- Climate Change Capital invests €10.3m in Metallkraft
- Twelve Massachusetts solar installations awarded funding
- Areva acquires US solar company Ausra
- SunPower to acquire SunRay from private equity firm Denham Capital
- ET Solar agrees 31MW module supply deal with Umwelt Somme
- Solar Capital raises $95m through IPO
- Constellation Energy to award $90m to solar projects
- Manufacturer China Solar Power to build $180m plant in Suzhou Industrial Park
- Samsung C&T to build Californian solar plants under PG&E deal
- NVEnergy assents to purchase agreement for Nevada solar project
- Jiangxi signs for $20m of GT Solar’s furnaces
- Southern California to buy power from Recurrent Energy’s solar project
- US government awards $1.37bn to BrightSource Energy
- Hanwha commissions Spire’s solar cell line
- Confluence Solar to construct $200m US solar silicon plant
- Carmanah in venture with JEC to distribute solar LEDs in Asia
- Broadlands to lead 10MW solar project
- Semprius and Siemens to develop solar systems
- SunEdison activates first phase of its 16MW solar farm in North Californa
- Trina Solar and AE Photonics to deliver 40MW
- Solar EnerTech to distribute Aussie Solar modules
- Siliken to build Canadian solar manufacturing plant
- OTB Solar enters agreement with solar company Roth & Rau
- Peterborough to construct solar farms
- P2I and Energy Launch team up on solar cell coating
- Evolution Solar creates Bermuda subsidiary
- Elecnor signs Fluor for solar plant project
- eSolar to provide solar thermal plants internationally for Ferrostaal
- Scheuten Solar unveils 4MW of solar projects in Italy
- Natcore and Chinese Consortium in solar joint venture
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Wind news »
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295MW of capacity to be sent to German Wind Farm
- EDP acquires 85% of Italian Wind Farm from Cover for €12m
- Gallop obtains juwi wind farm
- AMSC receives $70m order from Shenyang for wind turbines
- Trinity Indistries completes tender for Quixote Corp
- Vestas receives 99MW wind turbine order for US facility
- Viryd receives $5m to update wind turbine technology
- Hatch acquires US wind assessment
- Helix Wind receives second tranche of bridge financing
- Funding on the cards for Huayi Electric's China power projects
- REpower to supply wind turbines for Langres Sud wind farm
- SeaRoc secures offshore wind farm
- KEMA wins contract for offshore FEED wind farm
- Enova awards £23m to Sway development
- ARC to raise £5m for UK onshore wind farm developer
- Element Power buys 1.4GW of wind assets
- Co-op Bank invests £11.8m in Good Energy wind facility
- GEF invests in UPC Renewables for wind projects in China
- RWE Innogy to invest in Italian wind farm
- UK invests £8m in wind energy projects
- London Array moves to next stage of development
- Global wind power capacity grew 31%, says GWEC report
- Zachary Ridge wind array operational
- Wind power the first choice in EU for installation
- Gamesa establishes Indian turbine division
- Consortium to pay for construction of Laredo Ridge Wind
- RES Canada completes Québec turbine project
- Tech institute to build turbine test facility
- Lake Country and National Wind secure land for US community wind project
- SouthPoint Wind plans wind complex
- Allegiance Capital facilitates wind farm development agreement
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Bioenergy news »
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Shell and Cosan to form joint bioethanol venture in Brazil
- Algenol awarded $10m grant to develop bioethanol in Florida
- BP and Verenium extend bioethanol collaboration
- Frog Capital backs European biogas producer agri.capital
- All Fuels agrees to Valero’s $100m offer to sell Wisconsin bioethanol facility
- Allylix secures $6m in venture capital for yeast process
- Brazilian ethanol producer ETH acquires Brenco
- Craton invests in US-based Propel Fuels
- Bionersis completes acquisition of biogas consortium
- Mowood sells landfill gas to energy firm Timberline Energy
- Stratus Group awards $5.4m to Amyris
- ZeaChem’s biorefinery process achieves industrial level results
- Collaboration on US biopellet facility
- NGO welcomes palm oil as biofuel label
- Dayton Power and Light Company test biomass fuel
- British Gas to inject green gas into national supplies
- RWE appoints biomass contractors
- ABO supports Obama’s biofuel strategy
- Velocys and Petrobras to collaborate on gas-to-liquid venture
- Arcadis signs up with BA for jet fuel plant
- GreenShift, Alternativa target Ukraine biorefinery
- Dong Energy to develop biomass plant
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Energy efficiency news »
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Greenko obtains £72m through share placement
- Ciris closes financing round to develop coal-to-methane technology
- Evergreen raises £7m through direct offering
- Headwaters and Axom form direct coal alliance
- Better Place obtains $350m in Series B round led by HSBC
- Protonex awarded $1.85m to develop energy storage systems
- US DOE closes $1.4bn Nissan loan for electric cars
- Cymbat secures $31m in private financing
- Greentech gains £1m in additional funding
- Waste energy company Sterecycle raises £10m, appoints new CEO
- Waste Management joins Harvest Power investment round
- Lucid Design procures $1.5m in Series A funding
- Electric vehicle company Coulomb secures $14m in venture capital
- Dow Venture Capital invests $1.5m in Clean Filtration Technologies
- Amadeus leads $5.5m AMEE financing
- Luntz Acquisition to purchase GEM
- Siemens to boost green investment in India
- FirstEnergy and Allegheny Energy in $8.5bn merger
- PureSpectrum enters $5m stock agreement
- EBRD loans $150m for gas stabilisation
- MTI leads investment round for pest control product
- Aero Farm raises $500,000 from Quercus Trust and 21 Ventures
- CellEra raises further $2m for fuel cell
- Nexamp raises $6.5m in Series A funding
- Cuculus closes €2.6m financing round
- Mercury Cable and Jordana Electric to market smart conductors in Mexico
- Norwegian energy recovery facility ahead of schedule
- Siemens, CEPEL to deploy energy management systems in Brazil
- Exelon to fund coal demonstration plant
- Honda improves solar hydrogen technology
- Volvo forms R&D partnership with Pennsylvania State University
- Alstom welcomes Obama’s carbon capture task force
- Greenlots rolls out charging infrastructure for electric vehicles
- AV Concept and Boston Power to expand in Asia
- Tesla Motors announces IPO
- Launch of Asia’s first nano-emulsion plant in Singapore
- Eco City Vehicles launches Mercedes electric taxi prototype in London
- Energy retrofitting – a triple bottom line proposition, says SBI Energy
- Ceramic’s generators head to Germany
- Hydrogenics Corp to consolidate shares
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Water news »
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Ocean Power deploys Hawaiian PowerBuoys and gains funding
- Hydro Group secures £500k marine contract
- Seagen’s prototype tidal turbine exceeds 1,000 hours of operation
- Six marine technologies awarded £22m ny UK's Carbon Trust
- GeoPure HydroTechnologies secures Series A funding
- HBC Systems and Bear Creek’s water reclamation process
- Hydro-Québec acquires NB Power for $1.8bn
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Giothermal news »
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Denham injects extra $108m into Vulcan
- Raser Tech closes up to $19m financing with Fletcher
- Ormat acquires HSS II from Energy Investors Fund
- Turnaround for HS Orka as profits mount
- Southern European Exploration granted Serbian exploration licences
- Japan loans Kenya $375m for geothermal power plant
- PLN awards contract to Sumitomo
- Contact Energy proposes 250MW geothermal plant
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Fund news »
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Siemens invests $50m in second Deutsche Bank, Masdar fund
- BTS to launch $150m India renewable fund
- Foresight launches planned exit venture
- First closing of Hermes innovation fund
- UK venture capital trust model ideal for US: Beringea head
- Chrysalix’s cleantech fund exceeds $100m with Credit Suisse investment
- Intel Capital and China Investment Corp announces tech investment agreement
- ADB set to raise $100m for renewable energy investments
Northzone Ventures closes €90m fund
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Policy news »
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NYPA advances state-wide solar energy initiative
- South Korea invests $24bn into development of national smart grid
- Obama proposes $28.4bn budget for energy programmes
- UK announces energy feed-in tariffs in 2010
- Ofgem urges adoption of new energy policies
- UK Energy and Climate Secretary calls for interventionist energy policy
- UK feed-in tariffs will benefit grid, say Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Norway to link to North Sea offshore electricity grid
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Listed company news »
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GT Solar reports mixed results for previous year
- Solverdi affirms net profit in fourth quarter
- Revenues down in 2008 for Rentech
- Results show Transcat’s profits boosted by wind energy industry
- Wind turbine company AMSC sees revenue grow
- Trina Solar’s 2009 fiscal results exceed expecations
- Suzlon reports Q3 revenue of $1.21bn
- Evergreen Solar ships 31.9MW in 4Q
- Power One’s sales on the rise
- Tampa Electric reports income growth
- Solar EnerTech enjoys revenue increase in 2010
- Deutsche Bank and NASDAQ OMX launch Clean Tech Index
- Magma Energy reports losses after second quarter growth and expansion
Conergy aims for profit in 2010
- First Solar reports profits, but warns on uncertainties in 2010
- Module maker Solon reports €195m operating loss as projects stall
- Q-Cells reports cash in bank, but warns of tough forecast
- Canadian Solar reduces margins estimate, for 2009
- Ceramic’s half-year profits up on back of strong sales
- Statkraft’s profit drops on lower Nordic power prices
- Green Plains’ year-on-year revenues rise
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People news »
The latest appointments, promotions and new
initiatives for leading industry investors, executives
and entrepreneurs
- Constellation Energy promotes Smith to head of solar sales
- Zilka joins Hudson’s advisory board
- Future appoints Stewart to market fund
- GEI hires director of project finance
- Donoso re-elected president of AAE
- Acro Energy Technologies names Kreamer as president
- New CEO for solar manufacturer Solon
- Jamieson joins Oxford as non-executive director
- Joule appoints head of business development
- Marco DeMiroz appointed as Soliant’s Energy’s COO and CFO
- Alcombright heads Solon’s US division
- Rogers, CFO of NV Energy departs
- Mark MacCracken named as USGBC board’s chair-elect for 2010
- Van Eijkern steps down from SAM and Robeco
- Water industry veteran Stover joins Oasys to head commercial engineering
- Capricorn adds to cleantech investment team
- ITT Water appoints Swierk as Ozone board member
- VESNA appoints Slattery as new general counsel
- Brown to serve on SynGest's technical advisory committee
- Solyndra names Gaffney as senior VP
- European Forum for Renewable Energy Resources elects presidents
- SoloPower appoints CEO
- Future Capital names HR director
- Reshuffle on the cards for Magma management
- CleanTech Biofuels: new board member
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