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| Culver to focus on renewable energy |  |
| Gov. Chet Culver`s speech before the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver will focus on renewable energy, he said today. |
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| GM to Install 1.2 MW Rooftop Solar Installation at Baltimore Powertrain Plant |  |
| General Motors will install a 1.2 MW solar power installation to the roof of its transmission assembly plant in White Marsh, Maryland. |
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| Ruling upheld that favors wind turbines |  |
| Patricia LaPoint said she wasn`t surprised Thursday when an appeals court sided with the wind industry and upheld a lower court ruling that people can`t sue simply because they hate the way wind turbines look ... |
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| Miami Gets 600 Solar Powered Bus Shelters |  |
| Fuel Miami, LLC, a media company, has come up with a brilliant give-take plan to boost its company, its advertisers, and the city of Miami. The company is installing 600 solar-powered bus shelters in Miami, upon which they’ll be able to place their customer’s ads, and with no need to plug into the grid. |
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| ATA announces support for bipartisan comprehensive energy bill |  |
| The American Trucking Associations Thursday announced its support for a bipartisan comprehensive energy bill that calls for domestic oil drilling, tax incentives and alternative energy research to lower the ... |
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| PG&E Signs Deal for 90 MW of Wind Energy from Iberdrola Subsidiary |  |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with Klondike Wind Power III LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, to purchase 90 megawatts (MW) of wind energy from the Klondike wind facility in Sherman County, Oregon. |
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| Masdar Breaks Ground on Thin-film Solar PV Factory in Germany |  |
| Less than three months after announcing a strategic investment into thin-film solar photovoltaics (PV), Masdar, the Abu Dhabi renewable energy company, this week broke ground on its first solar PV production plant in Ichtershausen, Germany. The US $230 million German plant marks the first phase of Masdar`s US $2 billion investment in thin-film PV manufacturing, one of the largest investments ever made in solar. |
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| Focus on Energy To Award Grants for Large Scale Renewable Energy Projects |  |
| Focus on Energy, Wisconsin`s energy efficiency and renewable energy initiative, announced that it is offering large, one time only grants to help finance the installation of innovative renewable energy systems. Eligible businesses must submit grant proposals to Focus on Energy by October 29, 2008. Funds will be awarded on a competitive basis and are meant to support one project in each of the following technologies: |
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| Raser Sets 20 Geothermal Units at Thermo Plant |  |
| Raser Technologies Inc. announced hat it has completed setting the first 20 geothermal generating units at its Thermo plant in Beaver County, Utah. Raser had previously announced the setting of the first five units on August 12 and has continued its rapid deployment completing the setting of the first 20 units earlier this week. The plant is on schedule and Raser expects to have all 50 units set by the end of next week. |
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| Suniva & Titan Energy Sign US $480M Deal |  |
| Suniva Inc. has entered into a long-term supply contract with Titan Energy Systems Ltd, one of India`s largest and longest-standing manufacturers of solar modules. |
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| Hydrogen Projects Finding Mixed Funding Sources |  |
| Hydrogen projects that cut across a wide spectrum of applications are managing to find enough ramp-up funding from government, industrial, private and academic sources such that several technologies are already breaking in to the commercial space, and others should become mainstream within one or two decades, sector executives say. |
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| Solar energy plant announced for Wilmington |  |
| Published: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 9:34 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:04 p.m. Progress Energy Carolinas and SunEdison announced Friday that SunEdison will build, own and operate a ... |
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| Storage Key to Widespread, Affordable Renewable Electricity |  |
| Large-scale use of renewable energy will require that it can adapt to variable levels of demand on the power grid. Energy storage allows that electricity output from renewable sources can be cranked up as needed instead of firing up a natural gas or oil power plants. |
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