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Solar August 19th, 2009 by Editor

FSLR to Build 550 MW Solar Power in California

First Solar (FSLR) and Southern California Edison have announced they are planning to build two solar power projects in South California. The solar power plants in Riverside and San Bernardino are expected to  generate 550 megawatts of photovoltaic solar electricity which is enough to power 170,000 homes. The construction of the projects should start in [...]

Wind Power Capacity Grows in Missouri

Wind power capacity grows in Missouri faster than in any other US state. In the second quarter, the capacity grew as much as 90 % which is explainable by the low base of the capacity.  Furthermore, the growth [...]

IBM interested in water management

Fresh water is a scarce natural resource that is extremely important for humans, agriculture and industrial processes. Thus it is not at all surprising that corporations outside the water sector are interested [...]

China Wind Power Starts Trading

Yesterday the trading of the common shares of China Wind Power International Corp. began on the TSX Venture Exchange (ticker: CNW). China Wind Power International Corp. is a Ontario company that indirectly hol[...]

Solar Energy Stocks in News

Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar (NYSE:TSL) sold 4.5 million American depositary shares. The company nets $124 million ro reducing its debt and financing the expansion in the fast growing solartechnology [...]

Cleantech Executives Are Bullish

According to a survey conducted by Polachi Inc., 90 % of the executives in clean tech sector ndicated they predict growth in the sector to resume in one year or less. Nearly one third (31.2%) of these executive[...]

News: Bosch Acquires Ersol (Erfurt, Germany)

The German Bosch group acquires ersol, photovoltaic cell company based in Erfurt, Germany.  In the future, the company will be known as Bosch Solar Energy AG.  The remaining minority shareholders will receiv[...]

Water Stock Indices and Water ETFs

The securities industry has created several interesting water ETFs for green investors, who are convinced that water will be one of the most important resources in the 21st century. People living in the develop[...]

Free Clean Energy for Everyone?

In the future, it could be possible to provide almost free clean energy for everyone, suggests Joel Makover in an article  published by the BusinessWeek. This would become possible, as the homes and businesse[...]

Merrill Lynch: “Solar is likely to get worse”

Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich has published a report an the state of cleantech sectors in 2009.  For most of the green investors, the summary given by Jay Yarow in Cleantech Collapse: The Horrible Out[...]