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Kaiser Permenante Supports Local Solar Energy Market

published: 2011-11-16 15:43
Kaiser Permenante's Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, will be home to high-performance solar panels from SolarWorld, which will highlight the low-emissions transportation benefit of in-market solar production. Sol...  more

RES Submits Application for Solwaybank Wind Farm

published: 2011-11-16 15:42
RES has submitted a planning application to Dumfries and Galloway Council for Solwaybank Wind Farm located south of the B7068 between Langholm and Lockerbie. The wind farm has an approximatecapacity of 30MW and, if approved, is li...  more

Siemens to Create 500 New Green Jobs in Africa

published: 2011-11-16 15:07
Siemens is gearing up for continued growth in its new fiscal year, especially in the emerging markets like Africa, after ending fiscal 2011 with record operating results. On the occasion of the company's global board members meeti...  more

SOLON Presents Figures for the First Nine Months of 2011

published: 2011-11-16 15:03
Berlin-based SOLON SE presented its figures for the period ended September 30, 2011. Performance in the major solar markets continued to be very disparate in the third quarter of 2011. The market in Italy picked up again robustly ...  more

Alcoa and BYD Showcase 40% Lighter, All- Electric Transit Bus

published: 2011-11-16 10:29
Alcoa and BYD have co-developed a new all-aluminum space-frame and electric bus design that has reduced the weight of BYD’s 40-foot, transit, all-electric bus by 40 percent, or nearly one ton, versus the steel design. The first tw...  more