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Group IV Semiconductor Accelerates Development Of Energy-Efficient Solid State Lighting Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Aug 02, 2007 
Group IV Semiconductor has announced that it received a substantial new round of investment led by Garage Technology Ventures Canada with Applied Ventures, a subsidiary of Applied Materials, and with existing investors including Khosla Ventures and BDC Venture Capital. These investments will further expand Group IV's aggressive program to use its revolutionary silicon-based nanofilm technology t ... read more
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SolFocus-Inspira Deal Funds Solar Tracker Innovation
Mountain View CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2007SolFocus has announced that it has acquired Inspira, S.L., a privately owned solar tracker company based in Madrid, Spain. Inspira will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SolFocus and will continue to market products under its own name. With established global supply chain management and low-cost manufacturing facilities, SolFocus will enable Inspira to drive down the cost of solar trackers ... more IAEA To Visit Japan Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant Next Week 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 02, 2007The UN's nuclear watchdog is expected to send experts to Japan next week to examine a nuclear power plant damaged during a deadly earthquake, officials said Thursday. "We've heard the IAEA's inspectors will examine the nuclear plant from Monday through Thursday and on Friday exchange information with Japanese officials in Tokyo," an official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.< ... more A Future Natural Gas Cartel 
Doha, Qatar (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The April 9 meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum attracted intense media scrutiny. Pundits speculated that the hidden agenda of the meeting, the first in two years, was to explore the possibility of developing a natural gas cartel along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such a cartel would have immense financial and political clout in the glo ... more US Eyes Nigeria Oil Deals 
Washington (UPI) Aug 03, 2007The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether nearly a dozen companies operating in Nigeria made illegal payments to Nigerian customs agents for certain services. Eleven oil and oil-related firms have already been asked by the Justice Department's criminal fraud section to provide details about their relationship with the Swiss-based company Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper report ... more Bridges Too Far As Infrastructure Ages Across The Old West 
Washington (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The collapse of an eight-lane interstate bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis that was under repair reminds us that 30 percent of America's almost 500,000 bridges are categorized as "deficient" and in "urgent need of repair." The Iraq and Afghan wars have cost more than half a trillion dollars so far. The two conflicts are running at the rate of $12 billion a month, or $400 million a ... more |
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Leicester UK (SPX) Aug 01, 2007In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 km2 in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian fires are influenced by climate change. The study was led by the Professor Heiko Balzter of the Department of Geography at the University of ... more GT Solar To Equip One Of Largest Solar Wafer Factories In World 
Merrimack NH (SPX) Aug 01, 2007GT Solar Incorporated, one of the major providers of manufacturing equipment and turnkey manufacturing solutions to the photovoltaic (PV) industry, announced that it has signed a $171 million dollar contract with Glory Silicon Energy Co., Ltd., of JiangSu, China for GT's new and more efficient DSS450 furnaces for the production of multi-crystalline silicon ingots. The contract is the largest sin ... more SolarCity Expands To New Markets Across California 
Foster City CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2007SolarCity, ranked by the California Energy Commission as the fastest growing solar installation company in California, has scaled to accommodate its rapid growth with the opening of a new headquarters building in Foster City, CA while expanding its reach throughout the state with new offices in four major metropolitan centers. The 10,000 square foot building, located at 393 Vintage Park Dr ... more FPL Energy Announces Expanded Growth Plan For Wind Business 
Juno Beach FL (SPX) Aug 01, 2007With growing support for clean and renewable wind energy and the need for new sources of power generation to meet increasing demand, FPL Energy, a subsidiary of FPL Group, and the U.S. leader in wind energy development and operations, announced an aggressive goal to add between 8,000 and 10,000 megawatts of new wind to its portfolio by the end of 2012. To achieve its goal, FPL Energy plans ... more |
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San Diego (SPX) Aug 01, 2007Titan Energy Worldwide has announced that its subsidiary, Titan Energy Development, Inc., delivered a Sentry 5000 mobile utility unit to be utilized in a Department of Defense (DoD) program awarded to NextEnergy, called the Advanced Mobile MicroGrid system. The project, seeded with a Department of Defense grant, will allow government agencies and other entities to easily deploy mobile power cont ... more EDF Signs Framework Agreement To Operate Four Wind Farms In US 
Paris (SPX) Aug 01, 2007EDF Energies Nouvelles has announced the signature of a five-year operations and maintenance contract with MidAmerican Energy Company. This contract covers four wind farms with 508.5 megawatts of total capacity or 339 wind turbines. The contract signed by enXco, the US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, and MidAmerican Energy covers the management, operation and maintenance of four wind farms ... more SPX To Design And Manufacture State-Of-The-Art Equipment For Solar Energy Market 
Charlotte NC (SPX) Aug 01, 2007SPX Corporation has announced its Kayex business was awarded a contract to design and manufacture state-of-the-art crystal growing equipment to support the rapid growth of the silicon-based solar energy market. The contract is with NorSun AS, a producer of mono crystalline ingots and wafers for the international solar industry. NorSun is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. John Way, a division ... more Russia To Conduct Strategic Wargames Above And Below Arctic Ocean 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 01, 2007The Russian strategic aviation will fly over the North Pole and conduct test launches of cruise missiles during a series of exercises in August, the Defense Ministry said on its website Tuesday. Units of the 37th Air Army of the Strategic Command will conduct a total of six tactical exercises in August as part of an annual training program, the ministry said in a statement. "During the exercises ... more
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