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International Energy Leaders to Gather at 4th Annual Global New Energy Summit
(Type: Article | Section: EcoSeed Exclusive | Category: Press Releases)
Date Created: Sunday, 05 February 2012Colorado Springs, CO – January 24, 2012 – The 4th annual Global New Energy Summit will again be held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 9th-11th. The Summit brings together internationally ...
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Venture capital in ‘cleantech’ down by 4.5 percent last year
(Type: Article | Section: Business | Category: United States, I.P.O.'s, Latest News, News Briefs, News Briefs Finance)
Date Created: Wednesday, 01 February 2012Venture capital investment in “cleantech” companies in the United States reached $4.9 billion in 2011, 4.5 percent down compared with investments in 2010, according to Ernst & Young L.L.P. The category ...
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Renewable Energy Group I.P.O. ‘lacks luster’; $72 million raised
(Type: Article | Section: Business | Category: United States, Finance, I.P.O.'s, Biodiesel, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 19 January 2012The first renewable energy initial public offering in the United States this year made little gains as the Renewable Energy Group Inc. raised $72 million in its trading debut yesterday. The company sold ...
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First Solar sets world record, reaches 14.4% thin-film efficiency
(Type: Article | Section: Business, United States, Innovations, Solar Energy, Thin Film, Latest News)
Date Created: Tuesday, 17 January 2012Aiming to stay ahead of rivals in making the better thin-film solar panel, First Solar Inc., the world’s largest thin-film solar company, has set a new world record for the most efficient panels made of ...
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WIRSOL Solar AG verkauft 21 Megawatt Solarpark in Brandenburg
(Type: Article | Section: EcoSeed Exclusive | Category: Press Releases)
Date Created: Sunday, 15 January 2012Luckau, 13. Januar 2012. Auf dem ehemaligen Militärflughafen Alteno in der Niederlausitz entstand auf einem Areal von 45 Hektar eines der modernsten Sonnenkraftwerke der Welt. Die 21 MW starke Anlage des ...
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Solar 2011: Year faces free-falling panel costs – and trade wars
(Type: Article | Section: Business, United States, Solar Energy, Latest News)
Date Created: Wednesday, 21 December 2011The solar power industry expected to end up installing more projects than it did 2010. A mature sector, its recent recruits include billionaire Warren Buffet who this month invested – twice – in a market ...
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Engineered E. coli transforms switchgrass to fuels
(Type: Article | Section: Technology, Innovations, Bioenergy, Biodiesel, Biomass, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011Scientists seeking to formulate the next generation of biofuels often turn to genetically engineered microorganisms such as the Escherichia coli bacteria to process biomass into biofuels. The most recent ...
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Energy storage leads Q3 U.S. clean tech investments – Ernst & Young
(Type: Article | Section: Finance | Category: Venture Capital, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Energy Storage and Delivery, News Briefs, News Briefs Finance)
Date Created: Wednesday, 02 November 2011... year earlier, a report from Ernst & Young LLP published yesterday revealed. There were 76 companies developing renewable power and energy-efficiency technologies that received $1.1 billion funding recorded ...
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CSP Today South Africa 2012
(Type: Article | Section: Events | Category: Events Solar, Events)
Date Created: Monday, 24 October 2011CSP Today’s South Africa summit will unite major stakeholders in South Africa with the international CSP industry experts. South Africa’s position as a key strategic market for CSP deployment has provided ...
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Solar Millennium sells 2.25 GW of solar projects to Solarhybrid
(Type: Article | Section: Business, United States, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 06 October 2011Germany’s Solar Millennium AG has agreed to sell its 2.24 gigawatt portfolio of solar power projects to be built in the United States for an undisclosed sum to Solarhybrid AG, including its flagship 1 ...
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2nd World Clean Coal Series China Focus 2011: Lighting a Fire under Clean Coal
(Type: Article | Section: EcoSeed Exclusive | Category: Press Releases)
Date Created: Monday, 05 September 2011Coal plays an essential role in meeting global energy needs. International coal use is projected to increase 53 percent by 2030. In Asia, coal accounts for almost 75% of electricity generation national, ...
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Blythe 1-GW C.S.P. shifts to PV, finds panels more economical
(Type: Article | Section: Living Green, Business, United States, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic, Other Solar Technologies, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 18 August 2011Developers of the Blythe solar power project, supposed to be the largest solar thermal power plant using solar troughs, have decided to use solar photovoltaic technology instead because solar panels are ...
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Venture capital in U.S. falls 44 percent in second quarter
(Type: Article | Section: Business | Category: Other Industries, Business, United States, Finance, Venture Capital, Latest News)
Date Created: Wednesday, 03 August 2011Clean technology investment in the United States in the second quarter showed fewer deals and shrinking figures, with numbers less than half compared with those in the same period in 2010, Ernst & Young ...
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China sets national solar feed-in tariff rates
(Type: Article | Section: Finance | Category: Markets and Stocks, Business, Asia, Politics, Feed-in Tariff, Solar Energy, Latest News)
Date Created: Wednesday, 03 August 2011China has set its first national feed-in tariff rates for solar power projects beyond those put up for tender under the country’s previous solar solicitations. China first used a feed-in tariff scheme ...
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Analysis: Solar specialists embrace tie-ups to resist squeeze out
(Type: Article | Section: Business | Category: Other Industries, Business, Asia, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic)
Date Created: Tuesday, 26 July 2011HONG KONG/TAIPEI, July 25 (Reuters) - Grappling with sliding prices and margins, solar specialists, or stand-alone makers of wafers and cells, risk being squeezed out of the market by their fully integrated ...
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Californian CO2 market delay seen up to 12 months
(Type: Article | Section: Business, Politics, Carbon Market, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 02 June 2011BARCELONA (Reuters) - The startup of a carbon market in California, viewed as a potential template for future U.S. national emissions trading, could be delayed up to 12 months or more, experts at a carbon ...
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China most attractive for renewable energy projects, besting U.S. once again – Ernst & Young
(Type: Article | Section: Business, Asia)
Date Created: Monday, 30 May 2011... a report from Ernst & Young showed. China's score out of 100 in the analyst firm's quarterly Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index published last week has increased to 72 from 71 last quarter, ...
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World must curb resource use; China a test case: U.N.
(Type: Article | Section: Business | Category: Other Industries, Business, Politics, Other Policies, Latest News)
Date Created: Thursday, 12 May 2011OSLO, May 12 (Reuters) - The world must curb soaring use of resources ranging from coal to copper to prevent consumption from reaching ruinous levels by 2050, according to a United Nations report on Thursday ...
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E.P.A. proposes air rules that may hit coal-fired power
(Type: Article | Section: Politics, Laws & Regulations, Living Green, Health, Latest News)
Date Created: Wednesday, 16 March 2011WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Environmental regulators proposed rules on Wednesday that would force aging coal-fired power plants to choose between installing costly anti-pollution technology or shutting, ...
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Scottish and Southern joint venture to acquire Skykon’s wind tower plant
(Type: Article | Section: Finance | Category: Venture Capital, Finance)
Date Created: Wednesday, 09 March 2011Danish wind turbine maker Skykon named the joint venture of Scottish Southern Energy Plc (SSE: LN.) and Marsh Wind Technology Ltd as the buyer of its bankrupt Scottish plant. The joint venture, known as ...
