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| Italy to build Solar-Energy-Producing Statue of Saint |  |
| Italy is planning to build a 200ft high, solar energy-producing statue of one of its most cherished saints. The statue will be coated in a special photovoltaic paint which will enable it to trap the sun`s heat and produce solar energy, making it an "ecological" religious icon. |
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| India Sets Out Ambitious Solar Power Plan To Be Paid For By Rich Nations | |
| India plans to generate 20GW from sunlight by 2020, putting green energy targets of developed nations in the shade India has decided to push ahead with a vastly ambitious plan to tap the power of the sun to generate clean electricity, and after a meeting chaired by the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, it wants rich nations to pay the bill. |
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| Lawmakers could extend energy credit | |
| North Carolina lawmakers are close to extending and expanding a state income tax credit for renewable energy generators people install on their property. |
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| EcoMedia and EarthEra Partnership Help Construct Renewable Energy Facilities | |
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| EPA Names Top 20 On-site Green Power Producers | |
| The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Green Power Partnership has recognized 20 partners for generating the most green electricity on-site. Combined, the top 20 partners generate more than 736 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of on-site green power annually, with the top five accounting for more than 535 million kWh. The top five partners are, in order, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, City of San Diego, San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant (Calif.), and CalPortland.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,100 partner organizations that voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, the partners buy more than 16 billion kWh of green power annually.
News Release - EPA Names Top 20 Organizations Running on Their Own Green Power
Additional Information - EPA Green Power Partnership`s Top 20 On-site list
Contacts:
Dave Ryan, 202-564-7827
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| Clinton Foundation to build solar power station near Indo-Pak border | |
| South East Asia News.Net Thursday 6th August, 2009 New Delhi, Aug.6 : The Clinton Foundation has agreed to build the world`s largest solar power station close to the India- Pakistan border. |
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| Renewable energy trailer on display | |
| On Thursday, Mobile Gen showed off its prototype renewable energy trailer in Muskegon.It uses four types of energy - wind, solar, battery and propane, and works as a hot water heater. |
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| eSolar Unveils 5-MW Solar Thermal Plant | |
| eSolar this week unveiled its 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower solar power plant. The full-scale power plant produces electricity for Southern California Edison (SCE). eSolar says its technology resolves many of the problems that have held back large scale solar in the past including cost, speed of deployment and proximity to existing transmission lines. |
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| REpower To Ship 31 Turbines to Italy | |
| REpower Systems AG has signed two contracts for the delivery of 31 wind energy turbines with capacities of 2 megawatts with two project companies, majority-owned by TRE&P, a subsidiary of Tozzi Holding. There is an option of a further 18 turbines. |
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| SunEdison Awarded 2.1-MW Project by UMES | |
| University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is planning to develop a photovoltaic solar farm on 20 acres of land on the University`s campus. SunEdison will finance, build, operate and maintain the 2.1-megawatt system under a solar power service agreement (SPSA). It will be the largest renewable energy project in Maryland. |
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| U.S. Used Less Energy in 2008 But More Renewable Energy | |
| Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The nation used less coal and petroleum during the same time frame and only slightly increased its natural gas consumption. Geothermal energy use remained the same. |
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