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July 12, 2010
Amendments to the photovoltaic feed-in tariffs of Germany's Renewable Energies Act (EEG) were passed today, marking a shift towards the rooftop segment. Germany's Bundesrat (lower house of parliament) approved the amendments this morning, clearing the way for them to become law. The changes abandon field installations on cropland and increase the attractiveness of the own consumption bonus for small and medium-scale rooftop installations. Germany Trade & Invest will have representatives on hand at this year's Intersolar North America in San Francisco, California, from July 13-15 to introduce opportunities for photovoltaic (PV) companies in Germany.
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July 09, 2010
Siemens plans to significantly boost its commitment to Africa by making an additional investment of roughly €200 million in the next two years to expand its business and its sales structures on the continent. “Africa offers Siemens vast opportunities for growth. As a green infrastructure pioneer, we’re a natural partner for mastering the continent’s major challenges. Renewable energies, in particular, have a huge potential in Africa,” said Siemens President and CEO Peter Löscher at celebrations marking Siemens’ 150th anniversary in South Africa.
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July 06, 2010
Plans for more than 3,000 homes have been put forward by East Devon District Council to be built in Cranbrook as part of an eco-town, east of Exeter.
The approved building is a combined heat and power centre based on the nearby Skypark business estate.
It would provide power and heat for both local industry and for homes within the new town, planners said.
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July 06, 2010
Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, sold the low-emission C600 microturbine to one of the largest natural gas producers in the United States.
The company is producing natural gas from six key reserves -- or plays -- across the United States. It will use electricity produced by the C600 to power a compression station associated with the Marcellus Shale play, labeled a "super giant" oil field that spans northern West Virginia, Pennsylvania and southern New York.
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July 06, 2010
The head of the United Nations agency that promotes industrial development to help countries eradicate poverty today urged Kazakhstan to invest in renewable energy to raise efficiency, boost energy security and tackle climate change.
“As an emerging leader in Central Asia, Kazakhstan needs to promote more exploration in energy sources, including renewable energy,” Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), said during the 3rd Astana Economic Forum, held in the nation’s capital.
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July 06, 2010
Nearly a million people in rural Nepal have access to energy thanks to two United Nations development programmes which show that early investment by national governments and communities can attract private financing and extend access to utilities.
Issuing a press release on Tuesday Olav Kjorven, UNDP Director of Policy and Assistant Secretary-General, told journalists in New York “High public investment in early years of capacity development is crucial to get communities to the point where a market can take shape and where you can interest the commercial sector.”
The report, Capacity development for scaling up decentralized energy access programmes, builds on lessons from two decentralized energy projects in Nepal that provided electricity by micro-hydro power to 250,000 people and which provided access to improved cooking stoves to 580,000 others.
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July 06, 2010
FuelCell Energy, Inc. a leading manufacturer of high efficiency ultra-clean power plants using renewable and other fuels for commercial, industrial, government, and utility customers today announced a contract to procure fuel cell stack module assembly and conditioning equipment to sell to POSCO Power, the Company's South Korean partner. This contract demonstrates POSCO Power's continued investment in fuel cell production capacity to capitalize on the demand for ultra-clean and highly efficient power generation in South Korea centered on the Company's Direct FuelCell® products. FuelCell Energy also announced that under a separate contract, POSCO Power has ordered a 300 kilowatt DFC 300MA fuel cell power plant.
The production equipment will be used to assemble and condition fuel cell stacks in South Korea using fuel cell components supplied by FuelCell Energy.
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July 06, 2010
Governor Jim Doyle has announced that Wisconsin residents, farms and businesses saved more than $319 million in energy costs in 2009 through energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives with assistance from the Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy program.
This is compared to $239 million in 2008. For every dollar invested in the Focus on Energy program last year, residents, farms, and businesses in Wisconsin saved $2.20 in energy costs.
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July 06, 2010
In this week's address, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments from the Recovery Act to two solar companies. Abengoa Solar has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the world in Arizona, which will create about 1,600 construction jobs with over 70 percent of the construction components and products manufactured here in the USA. When completed, this plant will provide enough clean energy to power 70,000 homes. And, Abound Solar Manufacturing is building two new plants, one in Colorado and one in Indiana. These projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs, and over 1,500 permanent jobs as the plants produce millions of state of the art solar panels each year.
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July 06, 2010
The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund, or Geeref, mainly invested by the European Union, will put 10 million euros ($12.5 million) in a private Chinese fund, the EU’s energy commissioner said. The Chinese fund, known as China GreenStar Resource Utilization Investment Fund, is the country’s first private equity fund with a focus on energy efficiency and emissions reduction projects, Oettinger said.
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