San Jose-based Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has sold its 40MWDC (30MWAC) Midway ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has sold a 15MW photovoltaic (PV) solar project to Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy. ...
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Three all-electric and seven electric-hybrid buses, all of them provided by Swedish automobile major Volvo, has started plying on the nine-kilometer-long Route 55 between Lindholmen and Johanneberg in Gothenburg. All the vehicles, ...
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The desire to create packaging that is more beneficial for the environment is certainly not a new trend. For years, designers and manufacturers have worked hard to produce packaging that is easy to recycle and wastes as little material as ...
The Toyota FCV hydrogen-powered car has successfully been used as an alternative power source in a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Toyota FCV, a forerunner to the car maker’s first production ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France says that a group of investors – including a large European energy supplier, the largest Portuguese installer of electrical grid infrastructure, and the largest ...
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Edgo Energy has announced that it has signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) with the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan for license areas Surkhsimo and Qarordon in Tajikistan. The signing ceremony follows ...
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British Gas, the biggest energy supplier in the United Kingdom, said it plans to raise the energy price by an average of 9.2 percent from next month, local media reported Friday. The price hikes, which announced only one week after its ...
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Voith has been commissioned with the equipment of a new hydropower plant in Angola in Africa. For the hydropower plant Cambambe II at the River Kwanza, the company will supply and install four generators and turbines as well as the control ...
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Voith has received an order for the refurbishment of a hydropower plant on the Rhine. The company will modernize several turbines in the Rheinkraftwerk Albbruck-Dogern at the German-Swiss border and supply three vertical Kaplan runners for ...
Xylem's Paul Ruzicka, chief mechanical engineer and James Roberts, chief product engineer were recently honored by the Hydraulic Institute for their technical leadership and contributions in the creation of new ANSI/HI Standards for pumps. ...
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Voith will modernize six turbines for Norway largest energy supplier Statkraft in four different Norwegian hydropower stations. The recently signed contract has a volume of about ten million Euro. Within the framework of the contract ...
An energy switching scheme to save people money on their monthly energy bills has been launched in Derbyshire, after extended talks over the last few months. The county council, which has been urging people to sign up to Derbyshire Big ...
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UK households could reduce their annual energy bills by more than a fifth (21 per cent) by switching their traditional energy supplier to the cheapest available producer. This could see an overall saving of up to £3.8 billion for ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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