Kona Brewery has broken ground on a new $20m facility in Hawaii near its current facility. Located on 2.6 acres leased from the Queen Liliuokalani Trust, will produce 100,000 barrels annually once it becomes operational. The ...
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eMotorWerks announces JuicePlug, a universal charging station adapter for EV supply equipment that will extent its smartphone and web interfaces to pre-existing, non-networked charging station. This will enable every EV driver to ...
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Toyota has joined a Japanese government initiative to test end-to-end hydrogen fuel supply chain which aim to cut down CO2 emission significantly. This private-public partnership consists of Kanagawa Perfectural Government, municipal ...
Tags: Low-carbon, Hydrogen, Renewable energy
The Operations & Maintenance group of First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, now has 5GW ...
Tags: First Solar, Thin-film photovoltaic, CdTe
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Seoul-based LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has selected an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of ...
Tags: SiC Epiwafers, Aix G5 WW System
Nissan has revealed an exciting glimpse into the future – with the first look at its fully connected vision of the future of mobility in association with renowned architects, Foster + Partners. The landmark partnership, between the ...
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Researchers from the Stanford University in the US have developed renewable plastic from carbon dioxide (CO2) and inedible plant material, creating a green alternative to petroleum-based plastic bottles and other polyester products. ...
Tags: CO2, Renewable plastic, Plant material
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, says that its GS66508P gallium nitride power transistors were ...
Tags: GaN Systems, E-mode GaN FETs, Power electronics inverters
Nissan announced Nissan Intelligent Mobility vision at Geneva. This will guide Nissan product evolution, will anchor critical company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society, all while ...
Tags: Nissan Lntelligent Mobility, The Geneva Show, Product evolution
The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
Maxwell Technologies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage and power delivery products, announced that its ultracapacitors have been selected by Beijing Huadian Tianren Electric Power Control Technology ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has again raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, from 21.5% (reported in February 2015) to 22.1%, as certified at the Technology and ...
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A 40-hectare food manufacturing hub that will bring packaging, distribution and transport to a single location will be opened in South Australia. The South Australian Government will spend $7 million to attract anchor tenants to the ...
Tags: food industries, wine industries
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Electric Vehicle Grid-Integration pilot project, signaling the "green light" for the company to own and install thousands of electric vehicle (EV) ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, renewable energy
On the 30th December 2015, GRENERGY formalized the sale of its two last solar photovoltaic plants in Spain, both producing under decree 9/2013 of July 12 which establishes the new remuneration system for renewable energy replacing decrees ...
Tags: PV Projects, Sloar Cell