First Solar Expands European Contracts
Leading solar company signs new supply contract with Italy-based utility and adds 525 MW to existing contracts.
China Brings Numbers to the Climate Change Table
China may be preparing to take a more proactive role in climage change negotiations by unveiling a price for cooperation.
Nike Expands Sustainable Design Into All Shoe Types
Nike Considered Design products are now available across the company's entire range of footwear.
UPS To Employ Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
Little-known hybrid vehicle technology stores and releases energy through the compression of hydraulic fluid.
Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: October 29, 2008
Interior Department to Open 190 Million Acres to Geothermal Power Dell and City of Chicago Join Ranks of Top Green Power Buyers U.S. Solar Power Manufacturing Growing Dramatically Ausra Opens its First Concentrating Solar Power Plant in California California Releases Plans to Cut its Greenhouse Emissions U.N. Environment Programme Launches Green Economy Initiative Interior Department to Open 190 Million Acres to Geothermal Power The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced last week that it plans to make more than 190 million acres of federal land in 12 western states available for geothermal energy development. DOI’s Final Geothermal Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) identifies 118 million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 79 million acres of National Forest System lands that could be opened to future geothermal leasing, potentially leading to 5,540 megawatts (MW) of new geothermal power capacity by 2015. The PEIS excludes wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, and national parks. It will amend 122 BLM land use plans to allow for geothermal development, while allowing the Forest Service the discretion of evaluating geothermal leasing and considering whether to amend its land use plans. The document also includes site-specific environmental analyses for […]
China BYD To Launch Hybrid Vehicle in Europe
China-based electric vehicle and battery maker says it has acquired 10 European distributors for 2010 launch.
San Francisco Voters to Determine Future of Electric Utility
Proposition H calls for 100% renewable power by 2040 and the authorization to form a municipal electric utility.
FPL To Reduce 2009 Wind Power Investments
Nation's largest operator of wind power will cut planned wind installations by about 25% due to economic conditions.
First Solar Enters U.S. Residential Segment with SolarCity Deal
First solar will supply 100 MW of solar modules to residential installer, and invest $25 million in the company.
Spire to Provide 30 MW Solar Line in S. Korea
Hanwha Chemical Corporation will enter the solar market with a production line provide by Massachusetts-based Spire.
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