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Anheuser Busch Brewery: Wind, Solar & Biogas
Between biogas, wind and solar, Anheuser-Busch generates about half of its electricity from renewable energy to make beer at its Fairfield, California plant. The company is the largest in the US to use nutrients in its wastewater to make biogas, a process called bio-energy recovery systems (BERS). They also recover the steam that heats boilers in the brew house to produce energy, in addition [...]
Boeing’s Solar Array at Dreamliner Facility $BA
Boeing South Carolina’s new 787 Dreamliner final assembly facility in New Charleston, S.C., now has the largest operational rooftop solar array in the Southeast U.S. The array was commissioned on Dec. 2 and is helping the company reach its goal of powering the facility from 100 percent renewable electricity. “Boeing is 100 percent green energy [...]
JinkoSolar Cleans and Greens China Facility $JKS
JinkoSolar a San Francisco 49ers sponsor today announced the completion of its phase I environment safety upgrade at its facility in Haining City west of Shanghai in the Zhejiang Province of China. Zhejiang Jinko Co., Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of JinkoSolar, conducted a thorough investigation of its temporary waste storage unit adjacent to the [...]
Ukraine to Get Mega Solar Facility
Solar power plants are nothing new, but they are far too rare. The Ukraine has decided to help fix the problem, of lacking of solar power, by funding the development of what might become the largest solar power plant in Europe. The solar facility, which is located in Okhotnykovo, Crimea, is part of the country’s [...]
Dyesol’s New DyeTec Facility to Produce BIPV Cells
Thanks to a partnership with the Ohio Third Frontier Fund, Dyesol Inc.’s (OTCBB:DYSOY) new DyeTec Solar facility in Toledo, Ohio, will soon start producing prototypes of what it calls the third generation of solar technology, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). The solar cells are being developed for applications including glass-based building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), building-applied photovoltaics (BAPV) [...]
Stion to Open CIGS Manufacturing Facility in Mississippi
Stion, which has devised a copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solarpanel and is working on a next generation panel, has announced it willbuild manufacturing facilities in Hattiesburg, Mississippi thanks inpart to $75 million in loans and other incentives from the state. The first phase of the project will be a 100 megawatt production line,Stion’s first [...]
STR Completes Acquisition of US Facility
STR Holdings Inc., a leading global provider of high quality, superiorperformance solar encapsulants to the photovoltaic module industry, hasclosed on its previously announced acquisition of land and a 275,000square foot building located in East Windsor, CT. STR willrelocate the majority of its US manufacturing to the new location. Inaddition, the facility will house US-based product [...]
Solar Capital closes new $100 million senior secured credit facility
Solar Capital Ltd has announced the closing of a new $100 million Senior Secured Credit Facility with a new lender. The facility, which expires in December 2015, bears interest at a rate ofLIBOR plus 3 percent. The company’s initial draw on the new facility was used to repay the remaining balance of its 8.75 percent [...]
JA Solar (JASO) To Expand Capacity 30%, Build Solar Facility In U.S. $JASO
Bloomberg reported over the weekend that JA Solar plans to expand solar cell productioncapacity by at least 30% next year and is currently in negotiations tobuild a solar production facility in the US, joining other Chinamanufacturers who have begun to produce here in the US (Trina Solar andYingli if I’m not mistaken). The company will [...]