Massachusetts’s clean energy investments and incentive programs are paying off handsomely in terms of economic stimulus and jobs growth, as well as reducing carbon emissions and environmental degradation. […]
SMA Solar has announced that it would enter the market of solar-diesel power networks with a new product line of solar panels. This has left analysts hopeful that sales at the company will be boosted. This new solar panel product line allows diesel generators to draw power from solar … [continued]
Molten salt sandwiched between two layers of liquid metal constitutes the inside of a new battery developed by Ambri, a company founded in Cambridge, and the evolving creation of MIT Professor Don Sadoway. The company and the battery is now backed by Bill Gates, who met Sadoway after he took an online class of his at … [continued]
A prosecutor in the southern Italian city of Brindisi has filed criminal charges against Suntech and its Global Solar Fund, adding to a growing list of criminal and civil charges that could destroy the company. The charges follow on revelation of an alleged $700 million investment fraud perpetrated by GSF that implicates Suntech senior executives. […]
Canadian Solar Solutions, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, has signed a deal that will help build and maintain two new solar farms for Penn Energy Renewables in Ontario, Canada. The new solar plants will create 18.7 MW AC of energy, according to the statement. That’s the same as powering … [continued]
Indian business leaders are coming to grips with their country’s electricity shortage issues and looking for their own solutions, like buying power at reduced rates from solar farms or building factories with sustainable features, á la the Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Facility in Bangalore. The Mahindra Reva plant collects rain water; … [continued]
The world’s largest producer of solar silicon is able to move forward with the construction of a ground and rooftop solar farm that’s to be the largest in China. With a planned capacity of 330 MW, the Datong Shanxi solar farm demonstrates the government’s strong determination to support China’s increasingly troubled solar power industry. […]
A confluence of solar PV stimulus programs will power 80% growth in the Asia-Pacific region in Q4 2012, as demand shifts from Europe to emerging solar PV markets around the world, according to an NPD SolarBuzz forecast. Solar PV capacity is surging in major economic zones around the world, but government incentive programs in China, India, and Japan will make the APAC region the fastest growing. […]
Czech State Railways is investing €100 million into updating trains on national and international lines. The plan is to buy seven trains and have them ready for delivery in 2014. The new trains will be Siemens Rail Systems Intercity trains. These iron horses can reach a top speed of … [continued]
Three years after it was forced to pull an Australian stock market float due to a lack of interest from local investors, the Australian-based Talison Lithium (TLH:TSX) – the world’s largest producer of lithium ore – has been snapped up in a deal that values it at more than twice the … [continued]
