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First Wind, an independent U.S.‐based wind energy company, announced that it has reached agreement with Vestas to purchase 77 V100‐1.8 MW turbines to be deployed at projects under development in Maine and in construction in Washin...  more

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Goldwind) has signed connection agreements with Powercor Australia to connect 13 Goldwind 1.5 MW turbines to the Australian grid. The turbines will be located at Mortons Lane W...  more

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 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 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

Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. (Smith), a leader in all-electric commercial vehicles, announced that the company will expand its U.S. operations by adding a manufacturing facility in New York State, creating up to 100 new direct lo...  more

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

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., will offer a fuel-efficient hybrid at a more accessible price when the Prius c joins the Prius Family of vehicles in the spring of 2012.  The U.S. debut of the Prius c will be next January at the ...  more

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

Vestas has received orders for a total of 139 MW for 77 V100-1.8 MW turbines from First Wind for two wind-energy projects in the United States. The 104.4-MW Palouse Wind project in Whitman County, Wash., will include 58 V100-1.8 M...  more