Covanta Energy VP appointed to PSI Advisory Council
Covanta Energy Corp., a global owner and operator of energy-from-waste projects in Morristown, N.J., has announced that John G. Waffenschmidt,...
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DaniMer Scientific obtains anaerobic digestion certification for ReNew film resins
DaniMer Scientific, Bainbridge, Ga., has received an anaerobic digestion certification for its ReNew flexible film resins from SSCCP, the Italian...
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Mage Solar opens distribution center in Arizona
Mage Solar, Dublin, Ga., part of the globally operating Mage Group, has added a new warehouse and distribution center in Phoenix. The company's...
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Lux Research reveals 2011 top 10 module manufacturers
Lux Research, Boston, has released its latest Solar Supply Tracker for 2011. It provides a customizable platform for tracking the capacity and...
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International Battery closes Pennsylvania plant
International Battery has closed its 4-year-old lithium-based, rechargeable battery manufacturing plant in Allentown, Pa., eliminating 57 jobs....
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New Energy Technologies, NREL fabricate large-area OPV module
New Energy Technologies Inc., Columbia, Md., and scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) —...
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New Energy Technologies, NREL produce large-area OPV
New Energy Technologies Inc., Columbia, Md., a developer of technologies for generating sustainable electricity, has collaborated with the U.S....
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3M, Chesapeake Energy Corp. partner to create new CNG tank technology
3M, St. Paul, Minn., and Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, Okla., have announced an agreement to collaborate in the design, manufacture, and...
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Andersen Windows converts part of fleet to CNG
Andersen Windows, Bayport, Minn., and its hauler, Data Transit of Eagan, Minn., converted some of their semitrailer trucking fleet to compressed...
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Gasoline expected to cost $5 a gallon in next five years
A recent survey by Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), San Francisco, a business organization representing the advanced energy industry, found that 62...
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Chu affirms DOE support for CHP
During Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Feb. 16 testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the proposed 2013 Dept. of Energy...
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Grenada Chocolate Co. to ship 5 tons of dark chocolate sustainably
This spring Mott Green, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Co., a Grenada-based, tree-to-bar organic chocolate cooperative, will set out on a...
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GE software powers research on efficient wind energy production
GE, Charlottesville, Va., is working with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to investigate ways to improve wind farm productivity and...
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GTI adds IH2 advanced biofuels plant
Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Des Plaines, Ill., has added a new pilot-scale IH 3 plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel...
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Franchise Investment Group to open solar systems plant in South Carolina
Franchise Investment Group, Greenville, S.C., is investing $18 million in a solar systems manufacturing facility in Blacksburg, S.C., for its...
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Principal Solar names finance expert to board of directors
Principal Solar Inc., a renewable-energy holding company in Dallas, has appointed John R. Harris to its board of directors. Harris is a veteran of...
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EERC works at converting coffee waste to energy
The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, has announced it is leading a project to...
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GE to build U.S. solar panel factory
GE has announced plans to manufacture its full-size thin-film solar panel at a new 400-MW U.S. factory that the company says will be larger than...
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First Solar to build new solar panel manufacturing plant
First Solar Inc. has announced it will build its new U.S. manufacturing center in Mesa, Ariz. The company will invest about $300 million in the...
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German companies develop laser welding for solar absorber manufacturing
In a cooperative project, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany, and Flexxibl GmbH, Brunswick, Germany, have developed a new laser...
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Melitron to build solar inverters for Sustainable Energy Technologies
Melitron Corp., Guelph, Ont., has been selected by Sustainable Energy Technologies to provide contract manufacturing services required to build...
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Eagle Claw, National Institute for Renewable Energy enter into strategic initiative
Eagle Claw Fabrication LLC, Tulsa, Okla., and the National Institute for Renewable Energy (NIRE) have announced a strategic research initiative to...
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Evergreen Solar to close Devens manufacturing plant
Evergreen Solar Inc., Marlboro, Mass., a manufacturer of String Ribbon® solar
power products with proprietary silicon wafer technology, has...
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Solar Services completes large PV solar panel installation
Solar Service Inc., Niles, Ill., has announced the completion of the largest privately owned commercial photovoltaic solar panel installation in...
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EnergyMatrix, SRE partner to develop solar-powered street lights
EnergyMatrix™, a distributor of LED and other energy-saving products in Santa Clara, Calif., has announced its partnership with solar system...
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USAID, Russia sign agreement on energy efficiency
Following the commitment by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev at the June 24 U.S.-Russia Summit to promote energy efficiency and green...
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Thomas Built Buses delivers hybrid school buses to Kentucky
Thomas Built Buses has delivered 20 Saf-T-Liner® C2e hybrids to 13 Kentucky school districts. The buses are powered by a 2010 EPA-compliant...
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Orion Energy Systems awarded NSPE Product of the Year Award
Orion Energy Systems Inc., Manitowoc, Wis., has been honored with the Professional Engineers in Industry’s 2010 Product of the Year Award...
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U.S. wind executives reveal top industry growth obstacles in poll
Business advocates of the U.S. wind market point to the lack of financing and the lack of a national energy policy as the top obstacles to...
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Beckmann Volmer to invest $10 million in Arkansas plant
Beckmann Volmer has announced plans to locate a new manufacturing facility in Osceola, Ark., spending $10 million and employing 300 people. The...
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Horizon looks to expand Illinois wind farm to 600 MW
Horizon Wind Energy has filed applications for an additional 300.6 MW at its Top Crop facility in north central Illinois.
Two phases will...
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Rhode Island signs off PPA legislation
The Rhode Island state Senate has passed a bill to enable development of the 20-MW Block Island offshore wind farm.
Senate bill 2819 would...
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Envision Solar, GRID Solar announce alliance
Envision Solar Intl. Inc., San Diego, a solar master planner, architect, and inventor that designs and deploys advanced solar systems globally,...
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RES Americas begins construction on wind project
Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc., Broomfield, Colo., has started balance of plant (BOP) construction on the 343-MW Lower Snake River wind...
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Grainger names first Sustainability Supplier of the Year
W.W. Grainger Inc., Chicago, has recognized its 25 top performing suppliers with its Partners in Performance Award.
The company named...
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RES Americas completes Harvest Wind project
Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc., Broomfield, Colo., has announced the on-time completion of balance-of-plant for the Harvest Wind project....
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Solar panel manufacturer to locate in Mississippi
Twin Creeks Technologies plans to locate a solar panel manufacturing facility in Senatobia, Miss. The plant, which will be 250,000 sq. ft. when...
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Iowa ranked first in wind energy percentage
A report released by the American Wind Energy Association, Washington, D.C., ranks Iowa first in the nation in its percentage of total electricity...
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Report says U.S. must do more to prevent loss of clean-energy manufacturing jobs
Apollo Alliance and Good Jobs First, both of Washington, D.C., have released the report “Winning the Race: How America Can Lead the Global Clean...
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MHI to build wind turbine manufacturing plant in Arkansas
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Tokyo, has announced plans to build a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Ark. The plant, which will...
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FMA Communications launches www.greenmanufacturer.net
FMA Communications Inc., Rockford, Ill., has established a new Web site at www.greenmanufacturer.net, an online information tool for those...
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