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| China Offers Big Solar Subsidy, Shares Up |  |
| China has launched an unprecedented and long-awaited plan to offer subsidies for utility-scale solar power projects, sparking a rally in shares of Chinese solar panel makers on Tuesday. |
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| The Rocky Road To Wind Power | |
| Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has an interesting story on the logistical problems involved in transporting disassembled towers that will reach more than 250 feet in height from ports or factories to the remote, windy destinations where the turbines are erected. In Idaho trucks laden with tall turbine parts have slammed into interstate overpasses requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs. In Texas the constant truck traffic is tearing up small roads in the western part of the state where the turbines are being rapidly erected. And in Maine a truck carrying a big piece of turbine got stuck for hours while trying to round a corner near Searsport."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Cheaper Geothermal | |
| Fluid extracts more heat out of low-temperature wells.
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| Magma Energy buys US$25 million stake in Icelandic geothermal energy producer | |
| Magma Energy Corp. says it has signed an agreement to acquire from Geysir Green Energy a minority interest in HS Orka, a large power producing geothermal company in Iceland. |
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| N.S. regulator says it has no authority to rule on NSPI`s biomass proposal | |
| Nova Scotia Power Inc.`s ability to meet renewable energy targets was thrown in question Wednesday after the province`s regulator rejected its request to approve a proposal that would see the utility burn waste wood to create electricity. |
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| Philly rolls out solar-powered trash cans downtown | |
| Is it any surprise that a city known for its love of cheesesteaks, soft pretzels and cannolis would embrace a solar-powered trash compactor called a BigBelly? Philadelphia has replaced 700 public trash receptacles downtown with 500 of the high-tech compactors, which use solar energy to condense trash - cutting collection trips by 75%. Facing a $1.4 ... |
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| Gull killer turbines are removed | |
| An aquarium in Devon takes down two wind turbines because of a number of difficulties with the generators, including their killing birds. |
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| EDFEN & First Solar To Build 100-MW Solar Manufacturing Plant in France | |
| EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDFEN) and First Solar Inc. have announced a venture to build France`s largest solar panel manufacturing plant. With an initial annual capacity of more than 100 megawatts (MW), the plant will produce solar panels made with First Solar`s advanced, thin-film photovoltaic technology. At full production, projected for the second half of 2011, the plant could employ more than 300 people. |
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| Areva Wins DOE Wind Energy Integration Grant | |
| Areva announced that it has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for work to prepare the U.S. electrical grid for growth in wind power. The award will fund research conducted by Areva Federal Services and the Redmond, Washington-based Automation Business Unit of Areva T&D Inc. |
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| Arrow To Build Geothermal Plant in Indonesia | |
| Arrow Resources Development Inc. has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Four Crystal Funding Inc. and GTherm Inc. for Four Crystal to invest US $10 million at a price of $1.00 per share of Arrow common stock. Arrow has further agreed to have geothermal power plants, employing GTherm`s technology, built and operated on its properties in Indonesia. |
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