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SB LiMotive, an electric vehicle battery joint venture between South Korea’s Samsung SDI and Germany’s Robert Bosch, is acquiring the U.S. battery maker Cobasys, Samsung SDI said Tuesday, Reuters reported. Read More...
Spain's Acciona SA and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. said Monday they have formed a strategic alliance to develop and research renewable energy projects. Read More...
Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers, the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010. Read More...
A consortium of 30 Chinese solar panel makers aims to set up a network of solar panel assembly sites across the U.S. Centron Solar has set up a small sales office in Eugene, Oregon, as the first step in its plans to penetrate the U.S. market, according to a story Thursday (July 9) in local Register-Guard newspaper. Read More...
Some of the fastest growing sources of renewable energy in the world are the wind, the sun -- and the lowly wood pellet. Read More...
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Thursday it would ramp up production of lithium-ion batteries used in hybrid vehicles, seeking to ride a wave of interest in fuel-efficient cars. Read More...
Enterprise Products Partners LP will acquire Teppco Partners LP in a sweetened all-stock deal worth about $3.3 billion, forming what the two pipeline operators say will be the nation's largest publicly traded energy partnership. [Kansas City Star] Read More...
General Electric Co. will announce plans to build a research, development and manufacturing facility for wind turbines in Metro Detroit, sources tell Crain’s.
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U.S. natural gas reserves are likely 39 percent higher than estimated just two years ago as new technology is revealing deeper potential resources of energy.
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The National Research Council on Monday published a report that finds that renewable energy sources--wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, and biomass--could supply 10 percent of U.S. electricity supply in 2020 with existing technology. [CNET News] Read More...
Development of offshore wind farms has been restricted to places where turbines can be attached to the sea bed. But earlier this week, Siemens and energy company StatoilHydro installed what they call the first large-scale floating turbine. [CNET News] Read More...
The Department of Energy is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had declared dead. [Kansas City Star] Read More...
If you need to make a little extra cash in this down economy, try this bar bet: What state passed California last year as the nation's second-largest producer of wind power? [Renewable Energy World] Read More...
Alteris Renewables Inc. has acquired all of the assets of Renewable Power Systems LLC (RPS).
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The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007, according to a report (PDF) released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Homeowners this fall will be able to buy a wind turbine at hardware stores that tackles the small wind industry's bete noire: slow wind.
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Solar power systems manufacturer SunPower Corp. signed a multiyear solar-panel manufacturing agreement with Jabil Circuit Inc. to build panels for SunPower's North American solar market beginning in the second half of 2009, SunPower said June 8.
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Two Michigan firms are working to launch a new wind-turbine component manufacturing venture that is a high priority for the state and could advance the industry's technology.
An Argonne National Laboratory breakthrough in battery technology will be mass-produced in a deal with chemical giant BASF Corp.
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Battery company Boston Power thinks it can bring electric car battery manufacturing to the U.S. with some help from government stimulus funds.