Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Industry giants Schneider Electric and EDF EN Canada Inc. a powerful combination in Ontario
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric's Renewable Energies Business, global specialists in energy management and solar power plant design, announced today they were awarded another 30 Mega Watt (MW) contract with EDF EN ...

2. Italy's Enel opens innovative solar power plant (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Italian energy company Enel on Wednesday inaugurated an innovative solar thermal plant that stores heat from the sun in molten salts.  ...

3. ET Solar announces completion and grid connection of a 1.9MW PV power plant in Germany
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

4. Obama Announces $2 Billion For Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country's use of renewable energy sources. ...

5. Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.  ...

6. Schneider Electric makes powerful inroads in China's emerging solar market
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric announced today its success in securing two consecutive solar projects in the newly emerging Chinese solar market. The first Schneider Electric photovoltaic (PV) projects are being ...

7. Japanese firm wants to transform the Moon into a giant solar power plant
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese construction firm, has recently proposed a plan to harness solar energy on a larger scale than almost any previously proposed concept. ...

8. Viruses harnessed to split water
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... problem of solar energy: It’s only available when the sun shines. By using sunlight to make hydrogen from water, the hydrogen can then be stored and used at any time to generate electricity using a fuel ...

9. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight ...

10. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight ...

11. Biofuels and Carbon Capture from Frog Foam?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Since time immemorial human beings are trying to use solar energy for their survival and day to day use. We know that green plants create their own food and energy with the help of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis ...

12. Dantherm Power and Leap Power join hands to market fuel cell power and hybrid power based solutions in North America
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... the Partnership to aggressively market their products to North American telecom Service Providers (SPs), Data Centers, and Solar Power Generation Plants. ...

13. A system that’s worth its salt
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

...  A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water ...

14. SunEdison to Build Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

SunEdison is a division of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. They have bagged a project to develop and construct a photovoltaic solar power plant in Northeastern Italy, near the town of Rovigo. This solar ...

15. SunPower To Build 1-MW PV Plant in Yolo County
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Yolo County, SunPower Corp. and Bank of America announced that SunPower will design and construct a 1-megawatt (MW) solar power system at the Yolo County Justice Center in Woodland, California. ...

16. First Solar is Developing a 550-MW Solar Power Project in California
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

First Solar, Inc. is developing a 550-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plant in Southern California, slated for completion in 2013. The project is one of a number of large solar photovoltaic projects ...

17. Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas consolidates the financing of its first solar thermal plant in Badajoz, Spain
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... solar power projects. ...

18. Expensive Solar Power Continues to Be Built in the U.S.: Why?
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Electric utilities are constructing expensive and inefficient solar plants because of subsidies and mandates from federal and state governments. The subsidies are not free–they come from the American ...

19. Solar Energy from Plant Protein Structure
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Nanoscience is quite fascinated with the process of photosynthesis. They want to duplicate this process exhibited by green plants and utilize the solar power for energy use. Till now power generating ...

20. Solar Power nabs $24M in stimulus funds - Sacramento Business Journal:
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Solar Power Inc. will receive $24.7 million in federal stimulus funding, and is exploring opening a manufacturing plant in Sacramento County, the company announced Tuesday. ...

21. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... as much electric power as the nation currently uses. He’s also looking into ways of storing solar power, using molten salts to store the thermal energy for delivery later. With the right policies in ...

22. Qatar, Germany set up solar power joint venture (AP)
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AP - A state-run foundation in the natural gas-rich state of Qatar says it is setting up a joint venture plant with Germany's SolarWorld to produce the main ingredient in solar panels. ...

23. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

24. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

25. Chevron to build solar plant at NM tailings site (AP)
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AP - A subsidiary of oil giant Chevron Corp. plans to build what New Mexico officials say will be the largest solar power plant in the nation that uses lenses to focus sunlight onto solar cells. ...

26. Chevron to build solar plant in New Mexico (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it will build a solar power plant near a mine that a subsidiary operates in New Mexico. ...

27. Power from motion and vibrations
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... systems (as well as additional sources of power, such as a solar cell), Ramadass says. “You could have one set of electronics that interfaces” with multiple inputs, he says. For the future, the researchers ...

28. Inside cleantech Europe: That was the week that was!
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Solar power plant operator SunRay Renewable Energy is acquired for £277M, while the largest VC deal of the week goes to a smart grid tech company. ...

29. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

30. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...