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Bloom Energy Raises Another $130M
Fuel cell “startup” Bloom Energy just raised $130 million more in venture capital, according to a scoop from Fortune. That takes the VC funding to beyond $1.1 billion for this firm and makes it one of the all-time leaders in VC funding. Along with Fisker and Solyndra — not exactly great company. According to [...]
Pictoral Installs 757 Kilowatt PV Array
Pictorial, a family-owned, New Jersey commercial printer since 1938, is now benefitting from its new solar rooftop. It’s a757 kilowatt photovoltaic array installed by N.J.-based Solis Partners. Printing companies use a fair amount of electricity running printing presses, machine operated cutting machines and more, so it’s no surprise that the system, which covers two-thirds of [...]
2012 Solar Decathlon Europe Heats Up
The winner of the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe won’t be announced until this weekend, but we’re reading about several designs that have emerged as top contenders at the green building competition in Madrid, Spain. The contest - born out of the US Solar Decathlon, run by the Dept of Energy - is an international competition that challenges university students to design [...]
New Record Efficiency for CIGS-Based Solar Panels
Manz AG in Germany has set a new world record for the efficiency of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar panels. The new numbers are 14.6% and 15.9% for total module and aperture efficiency, which they claim are the highest rates of any thin-film solar module. Note that module efficiencies are different from single solar [...]
GM Gives Props to Envia’s Car Battery
Back in February, Envia Systems made an announcement regarding tests of its electric vehicle battery technology, and said it had achieved an energy density of 400 Watt-hours/kilogram (Wh/g) with battery technology for electric vehicles. This week, General Motors, which backs Envia, reinforced during an employee conference that Envia’s solution could power an electric car for [...]
How Green are The 2012 London Olympics?
The London Olympics Committee pledged to host “the greenest Olympics ever” but with the event now underway its environmental goals and energy consumption are being tightly scrutinized. The Games has always been an unrivaled catalyst for change and one of London’s legacy promises is for the Olympic Park to be ‘a blueprint for sustainable living’. [...]