Investment in clean energy worldwide rose by a third last year to $117 billion, boosted by widespread concerns over global warming, researchers New Energy Finance said on Wednesday.
Government measures to combat climate change and support clean energy sources such as wind, biofuels and solar have drawn investment funding into the sector, helping it weather a [...]
Archive for January 3rd, 2008
Clean energy investment up one third in 2007
Posted in Energy, Policy on 2008-01-03 | No Comments »
Hamilton Sundstrand Expands Portfolio With CSP
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-01-03 | No Comments »
Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., and US Renewables Group have reached an agreement to commercialize the company’s Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tower technology and corresponding molten salt storage system developed by Rocketdyne under the name SolarReserve. United Technologies acquired Rocketdyne in 2005.
SolarReserve will hold the exclusive worldwide license [...]
FERC Issues License for Hydrokinetic Project
Posted in Energy, Policy, Tidal on 2008-01-03 | No Comments »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a license for a hydrokinetic energy project, which will be located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington State. The license, for the Makah Bay Offshore Wave Pilot Project, includes mitigation measures to protect the environment.
The decision gives Finavera Renewables Ocean [...]
Akeena Licenses Solar Technology to Suntech
Posted in Economics, Electricity, Solar Energy on 2008-01-03 | No Comments »
Akeena Solar, Inc. announced that its solar panel technology, Andalay, will be distributed in Europe, Japan and Australia under a license agreement with Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Suntech targets sales of more than 10 megawatts of the Andalay solar panels to the licensed regions in 2008.
The terms of the licensing [...]
GreenHunter Begins Trading on AMEX
Posted in Economics, Energy on 2008-01-03 | No Comments »
GreenHunter Energy, Inc. has announced that the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has approved the company’s application for listing of its common stock. GreenHunter Energy’s shares have begun trading on AMEX under the ticker symbol “GRH.”
GreenHunter focuses on developing renewable energy projects including one of the U.S.’s largest biodiesel refineries located in [...]
Researchers Create Biodiesel from Chicken Fat
Posted in Biofuels, Energy, Science on 2008-01-03 | 1 Comment »
In the future, fat shaved off chicken breasts and other parts of the chicken may power automobiles that emit less pollution.
Chemical engineering researchers associated with the Mack Blackwell Transportation Center at the University of Arkansas (UA) have developed an optimized method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel fuel. The novel project [...]
