Tagged: Solar Energy & News
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Solar-powered plane Solar Impulse sets new distance flight record News
23.05.2013 The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has set a new distance record for a solar-powered flight as the craft has completed an 18-hour journey from Phoenix, Arizona, to Dallas,... -
ABB snaps up solar inverter player Power-One for US$1bn News
23.04.2013 Swiss engineering group ABB is aiming to become one of the world’s largest suppliers of solar inverters to target the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry as it is to acquire the US... -
DIT and RED-T take part in €6m pan-European solar farm R&D project News
23.04.2013 DIT has joined forces with Dublin renewable energy company RED-T to embark on a three-year €6m European research project on solar energy involving 12 companies across Europe....Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Funding, Energy -
All-island renewable energy event zeros in on insurance and investing News
18.04.2013 Finance and investment in the renewable energy sector, as well as planning and project development and insurance, are some of the topics up for discussion at an all-island... -
Solar financing platform Clean Power Finance raises US$37m News
09.04.2013 US solar software and financing company Clean Power Finance, which provides an online platform to connect the residential solar industry with the capital markets, has raised...Tags: Venture Capital, Solar Energy -
Bill Gates invests in battery-tech start-up News
03.04.2013 Bill Gates has become the latest investor to invest in Aquion Energy, a US start-up that is pioneering a new type of battery that uses sodium-ion technology.Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Energy -
Bentley lights up Crewe factory with UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system News
02.04.2013 Iconic car maker Bentley is driving its sustainability agenda, as the company is about to connect what it is terming the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system at its factory... -
Honda partners with SolarCity on US$65m solar fund in US News
20.02.2013 Honda is teaming up with solar power company SolarCity to create a US$65m fund so car buyers and dealerships in the US will be able to avail of discounts when installing rooftop... -
Mainstream raises US$70m for Chile wind farm News
01.02.2013 Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power has raised US$70m for a 33 megawatt (MW) wind farm it has started building in southern Chile. The wind farm is expected to be up and... -
Clean energy investments fell by 11pc in 2012 – BNEF News
14.01.2013 New data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) suggests that clean energy investments dropped by 11pc in 2012 due to factors such as regulatory uncertainty and policy... -
Is Apple set to give the wind-energy sector an overhaul? News
08.01.2013 It seems Apple could be planning to develop a new type of wind power technology as the company has filed a patent for a wind-energy storage solution. -
Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Solar buys two US solar projects for up to US$2.5bn News
03.01.2013 Renewable energy company MidAmerican Solar, part of the US billionaire and investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, is to purchase two large-scale solar... -
US solar start-up Stion raises US$25m to expand production facility News
19.12.2012 Stion, a California-based maker of low-cost thin-film solar panels, has raised US$25m in financing, which the company is set to use to expand its existing production facility in... -
Dublin solar firm ships first manufacturing unit to Germany News
13.12.2012 Nines Photovoltaics, a Dublin firm that makes manufacturing equipment to manufacture solar cell technology, has shipped its first industrial silicon wafer processing tool to... -
Mainstream Renewable Power to progress with wind and solar projects in South Africa News
13.11.2012 Mainstream Renewable Power is to start building two solar plants and one wind-energy farm in South Africa after signing financing, power purchase and implementation agreements... -
Renault installs solar PV systems at six French production sites News
07.11.2012 Auto giant Renault is claiming to have taken the lead in the automotive industry by installing 40 hectares of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to power up six of its French... -
Solar energy company BrightSource raises more than US$80m in equity financing News
26.10.2012 US solar thermal technology developer BrightSource has raised more than US$80m, which it will use to build solar thermal power plants in the US and to expand into new markets,... -
IKEA reveals plan to become energy independent by 2020 News
23.10.2012 Furniture retailer IKEA has today revealed ambitious clean energy plans, as the company is aiming to be energy and resource independent by 2020, as well as making its products... -
Clean energy investment globally set for a drop in 2012 – BNEF figures News
09.10.2012 Figures from analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) out today suggest that global clean energy investment for 2012 is set to fall short of last year’s US$280bn figure,... -
US solar power developer SolarCity files for IPO News
08.10.2012 SolarCity, the US developer of solar power installations, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to float on the stock exchange. The California company filed...