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ABB invests in CPV Company
ABB announced its intention to invest about 20 million dollars for a minority stake in Green Volts Company, as part of a 35 million dollars financial round, a California provider of turnkey concentrating photovoltaic systems (CPV), which are 30-40 percent more efficient than traditional photovoltaic and thin-film modules.
read more... 28/12/2011
Google to invest $94 million in 4 solar projects
Google, the American multinational internet and Software Corporation, has recently announced a major investment in clean energy sector. The investment of $94 million will be allocated for the construction of four solar photovoltaic projects near California, Sacramento, bringing the company’s portfolio of clean energy projects to almost $1 billion.
read more... 26/12/2011
Tule Wind Power Project approved
The US Department of the Interior gave approval to the construction of a 186 MW Tule Wind Power Project owned by Iberdrola Renewables. The project is the first one approved for public lands among the other five wind projects agreed on by Secretary Ken Salazar and then by the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009. The wind project will be built in the In-Ko-Pah Mountains of San Diego County, California (USA).
read more... 23/12/2011
New plant in Mississippi worth 600 million dollars
A California solar company announced on Friday that plans to develop a silicon plant in Mississippi worth 600 million dollars. It will be supported by a state incentives scheme of 75 million dollars.
read more... 05/09/2011
New wind turbines to capture more energy
A recently research made by the specialists at the California Institute of Technology showed that the old design of wind farms needs to be remade as to use maximum efficiency that will lift the power output from the wind farms. The researchers underline that larger and taller wind turbines will increase the capacity of wind farms rather than large dimensions of wind farms.
read more... 28/07/2011