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Marubeni Corporation and DONG Energy entered into an agreement whereby Marubeni acquires a 49.9% stake in the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. Completion of the transaction was conditional on, inter alia, certain matters ...  more

REC Solar, a provider of home, commercial and government solar electric systems in the United States, has teamed up with GE Energy Industrial Solutions, a supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies, to distribut...  more

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced the grand prize winner of the company's 'Solar Discovery Game,' an ...  more

Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, announced the establish...  more

A123 Systems (Nasdaq:AONE), Hydro Québec, and the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) today announced that they have settled their patent disputes regarding lithi...  more

An advanced solar-powered vehicle built by Solar Energy Racers, which is run by employees from the Swiss-based Bühler Group, took ninth place and the best newcomer award in the Veolia World Solar Challenge trans-Australia race fro...  more

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in, which will go on sale in Spring of 2012, earned Decisive magazine’s annual Urban Green Vehicle of the Year Award. The three Urban Vehicles of the Year award winners and finalists were announced after...  more

Arizona Public Service Co. and First Solar announced the completion of the 17-megawatt (MW) Paloma Solar Power Plant – the first facility to reach commercial operation as part of the AZ Sun Program. Earlier this week, APS also pla...  more

GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services announced it and German fund KGAL are jointly investing €111.1 million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de M...  more