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NREL: Cutting Building Energy Use in Half
The blips of a heart monitor, the hum of an MRI, the intense lights of a surgical room: all can bring both comfort and fear — and all require a lot of power. But new hospitals are being filled with natural, calming light and are leveraging energy from the sun and earth to power the [...]
Obama Talks Renewables in Wisconsin
President Obama made a trip today to ZBB Energy, a manufacturer of advanced batteries for energy storage. Such batteries promise to play a key role in the clean energy economy,enabling intermittent renewable energy sources like solar and wind toprovide more consistent sources of power. At ZBB’s Wisconsin factory, the President described the company’s achievements and how [...]
Applied Materials Talks Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation on Twitter
Today on the summer solstice — the day the sun shines in thenorthern hemisphere for the longest period of time all year — AppliedMaterials kicked-off its series of online conversations via Twitter with Mike Dabbs, Director of Government Affairs at Applied Materials bydiscussing the impact of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the U.S. During the Twitterstorm, [...]
First Solar (FSLR), EDF In Talks With Blanquefort, France Regarding New Solar Manufacturing Plant
First Solar and EDF Energies Nouvelles just announced that they arein the end stages of talks with the French town of Blanquefortregarding the construction of a new solar panel manufacturing facility.The two companies plan to finance the plant together, then First Solarwill manage the plant operations and sell the solar panels produced toEDF for 10 [...]
Solar Finance Deals as COP15 U.N. Climate Change Talks Approach
The COP15 climate change meetingstarting December 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark is the 15th internationalgathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This summit is a majoropportunity for the international community to take decisivemulti-lateral action on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Theprimary thrust of COP15, according to United [...]