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| Solar Energy Nanoantennas Are Created |  |
| U.S. scientists say they have created flexible plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantenna arrays to collect heat from the sun and other sources. |
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| : PG&E to buy power from solar farms on Calif. coast | |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has signed two contracts to buy enough solar energy to power 239,000 homes each year. |
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| Crayola May Use Solar Power At Eastern Pa. Plant | |
| Color this idea with the green crayon. Crayola is looking at using sun power to generate electricity for its eastern Pennsylvania plant. |
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| Spire to Showcase Spi-Sun Simulator at Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference in Spain | |
| BEDFORD, MA – August 15, 2008 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture and test photovoltaic (PV) modules and cells worldwide, today announced that key sales and executive staff will attend the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) in Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2008. Spire will highlight the Spi-Sun SimulatorTM 4600SLP. This system will be fully operational at the conference located in Hall One, Booth A29 and available for customers to bring their modules and cells for testing. |
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| PG&E Signs 800 MW in Solar PV Deals with OptiSolar & SunPower | |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has entered into two utility-scale, solar photovoltaic (PV) power contracts with a total capacity of 800 megawatts (MW). The deals could deliver cumulatively 1.65 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually. |
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| LADWP Approves 72-MW Wind Power Agreement | |
| The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Commissioners approved a new long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) on Tuesday for 72-MW of renewable wind power. This PPA will bring Los Angeles another step closer to achieving its goal of 20% renewable power by 2010 and 35% by 2020. |
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| Plutonic Power To Develop Run-of-River Hydro Projects Worth US $4B | |
| Plutonic Power Corporation and GE Energy Financial Services have signed a memorandum of understanding to partner on a bid to develop approximately 1,000 megawatts (MW) of clean, run-of-river hydroelectric capacity in the Toba and Bute Inlets along the southwest coast of British Columbia. With approximate capital costs of US $4 billion, the joint investment would be the largest single private sector investment in hydroelectric generation in Canada. |
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| 1.6-MW Solar System Being Built at Merck Headquarters | |
| By the end of 2008, the world headquarters of Merck & Co., Inc. in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey will have one of the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking systems in the eastern half of the United States. |
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| First Solar Wins SCE Panel Deal | |
| Southern California Edison (SCE) has begun installing solar panels at the first of approximately 150 Southern California commercial rooftops that eventually will make up the company`s two square mile solar generation project. |
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| Italian Biomass Gasification Project Planned | |
| Babcock Wilcox Volund (B&W) is to supply biomass gasification plants in Italy under the terms of an agreement potentially worth up to €100 million [US $147.44 million]. The combined cycle gasification (CCG) technology is to be delivered to Advanced Renewable Energy Ltd. (ARE) in Italy under the terms of a 10-year agreement. |
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| More US States Cooking Up Renewable Energy Incentives | |
| Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle`s Task Force on Global Warming has called for implementation of Advanced Renewable Tariffs to encourage the development of the state`s renewable energy resources. |
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| South Africa: Nuclear Power `Makes Better Sense Than Coal` | |
| Cape Argus John Yeld Nuclear power emits proportionately the same quantity of greenhouse gases as renewable energy forms like wind and solar power, and only about 100th of the average emissions of power ... |
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