The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has written to over 50 of the leading installers of energy efficient products such as LED lights, double glazing, insulation and solar panels, to ask them to ensure they provide consistently good standards. ...
Tags: OFT, energy efficient products, LED lights, double glazing, insulation
January 10,2013-Ontario's premier,Dalton McGuinty,today announced the Lambton and Nanticoke coal-fired generating plants will stop burning coal by the end of 2013,saying the early closure is a result of"Ontario's strong conservation ...
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The western side of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco is set to be fully installed with LED outdoor lights in the near future. Artist Leo Villareal is creator of The Bay Lights and it will see 25,000 LED illuminations installed on the ...
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The manufacture of glass makes relatively small demands on the environment compared with many other materials. It uses mainly readily available minerals to produce environmentally friendly products which have many beneficial uses from ...
China Sunergy Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of solar cells and modules, today announced that the company has set up a new manufacturing facility in Istanbul, Turkey with local partner Seul Energy Investment Corp., a solar system provider, solar ...
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Dialight has secured an order from a major oil & gas supplier in the Gulf Coast with a value totalling US$500,000. The order is for the installation of LED fixtures on 15 offshore heliports in the Gulf of Mexico. The lighting systems were ...
Transport chiefs in South Yorkshire have completed a new energy-saving scheme to replace the bus shelter lighting systems with much more efficient LED ceiling spotlights in Rotherham. The move has seen lights replaced in over 2,000 ...
Tags: Rotherham Company, SYPTE, LED ceiling spotlights, Lighting
Suntech Power, a China-based producer of solar panels, announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Total net revenues for the first quarter of 2012 were US$409.5 million, a decrease of 34.9% from US$629 million ...
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Australia - The world's largest permanent interactive light display, named Luminous at Darling Quarter, has been turned on in Sydney, Australia. Luminous at Darling Quarter represents an important investment in green digital art by the ...
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My Solar Port launching nationally in 2013 is a solar car port that produces sustainable energy. The oak-framed carport, which also houses a charging point for electric vehicles, offers an alternative energy source for the home and is a ...
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In many rural areas of the world, there is no electricity – which also means there is no clean drinking water, no access to information, education or modern forms of communication. For five years exactly now, SolarWorld AG has been ...
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SAGE Electrochromics, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of dynamic glass, located in Faribault, Minn., today announced it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, against View, Inc. ...
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Oxford University researchers looking for more efficient and cheaper ways to manufacture solar panels have found a possible solution in lowly base metal zinc. For as long as photovoltaic panels have been in large-scale commercial ...
Tags: Indium, Rare Earth, Zinc, Metallurgy
US-based rare earth miners, Molycorp (NYSE:MCP), gets a foothold in Asia after completing its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Canadian-based Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX:NEM). Neo Material is a worldwide company that makes parts for ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, USA
Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...