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11/04 | ReliOn Secures $23 Million Series C Equity Financing for Fuel Cells | Clean Edge News | ReliOn, a provider of high-reliability fuel cell solutions for backup power applications, announced recently that it has secured an additional U.S. $23 million in equity financing as a result of Series C funding activities. |
11/04 | Huaneng Plans 1GW Wind Base in Tongliao Area | New Energy Finance | Huaneng New Energy, a Chinese developer of clean energy, has signed a memorandum of understanding with local authorities to build a 1GW wind base by 2010 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. |
11/04 | Recurrent Energy to Install 5 MW of Solar PV Systems on Municipal Facilities in San Francisco | Clean Edge News | The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission\'s recently authorized new projects that will create at least five megawatts of new solar energy generation at City-owned facilities. |
11/04 | Investors Pump EUR 300 Million Into Econcern and Eye \'Medium-Term\' IPO | Clean Edge News | Econcern, the Dutch-based renewable-energy group, has clinched EUR 300m (USD 465m) in private equity and mezzanine financing from SHV, Rabobank and Delta Lloyd. |
11/04 | ReneSola Signs Six-Year 525 Solar Wafer Manufacturing Contract with Gintech | Clean Edge News | ReneSola Ltd, a Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers, recently announced that it has signed a six-year 525 megawatt wafer supply agreement with Gintech Energy Corporation. |
11/04 | CPI to Inject USD 858m to Develop Wind Farms in China\'s Guangdong | New Energy Finance | China Power Investment, one of the country\'s largest power producers, has agreed to spend CNY 6bn (USD 858m) developing wind farms at Xuwen, Guangdong Province. |
11/04 | Iberdrola to Invest $2B in Wind Power Farms in New York | Portland Business Journal | Spanish utility giant Iberdrola wants to invest $2 billion developing wind power farms across New York state. |
11/04 | RockPort Capital Closes $450 Million Clean-Tech Fund | Clean Edge News | RockPort Capital Partners recently announced the close of its third venture capital fund with commitments of over $450 million, making it one of the largest venture funds focused on clean technology investments. |
11/04 | In Energy Policy, McCain, Obama Differ on Role of Government | Wall Street Journal | Arizona Republican John McCain and Illinois Democrat Barack Obama say a lot of the same things about energy and environmental policy: Both want to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and fight global warming. Both want binding caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Both see a stepped-up role for nuclear power. |
11/04 | Duke Energy Plans to Install 16MW of Rooftop Solar in North Carolina | Clean Edge News | Duke Energy Carolinas is proposing a $100 million plan to install electricity generating solar panels at up to 850 North Carolina sites including homes, schools, stores and factories. |
11/04 | EU Countries Back Down on Unbundling | New Energy Finance | EU countries have decided not to force big European utilities to sell off their transmission networks, a move that many observers believe would have improved the situation for the renewable-energy sector. |
11/04 | PTC/ITC Extensions Run Aground in the Senate | New Energy Finance | Efforts to extend key tax subsidies for US renewables have stalled in the US Senate. |
11/04 | IEA Sees Key Roles for Solar, Wind and CCS in $45 Trillion Scenario | New Energy Finance | The International Energy Agency has mapped out a \"blue scenario\" for the world, involving a 50% cut in emissions by 2050 and massive USD 45 trillion investment in clean energy between now and then. |
11/04 | IGNIA Closes $20.6 Million Fund for Enterprises at the Base of the Pyramid | Clean Edge News | Latin America\'s first social venture fund dedicated to investing in commercial enterprises serving the base of the pyramid, recently announced the first close of US$20.6 million of capital commitments. |
11/04 | FPL Announces Solar Projects Totaling 110 MW | Clean Edge News | Florida Power & Light Company, a subsidiary of clean energy leader FPL Group, Inc., recently announced new solar energy projects that include the world |
11/04 | European Banks Fund Tereos\' 300 Million Liter French Ethanol Plant | New Energy Finance | Two European banks have provided the debt finance for what is claimed to be about to become the continent largest wheat-based ethanol plant, at Lillebonne in Normandy. |
11/04 | Coal Plant Gets Denied in Georgia | Greentechmedia.com | As the national debate over global warming continues to heat up, companies looking to build coal-fired plants in the United States are finding it tougher to move ahead with such plans. |
11/04 | Ormat Signs Contract for New Geothermal Plant in New Zealand | Clean Edge News | Ormat Technologies, Inc. recently announced that two of its subsidiaries entered into a supply contract and a construction contract with Contact Energy LTD of New Zealand for Centennial Binary Plant, a new geothermal power plant that is to be constructed in the Tauhara Geothermal Field in New Zealand. |
11/04 | Theolia and Abu Dhabi Energy Giant to Build Moroccan Wind Farms | New Energy Finance | French wind-energy firm Theolia is teaming up with Abu Dhabi energy giant TAQA to develop 600MW of wind power together in Morocco. |
11/04 | EnerNOC Signs 110MW Demand Response Agreement With Southern California Edison | Clean Edge News | EnerNOC, Inc., a leading developer and provider of clean and intelligent energy solutions, recently announced that it has entered into a new demand response agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE). |
11/04 | Ausra Opens Solar Thermal Manufacturing Plant in Nevada | Clean Edge News | Ausra, a developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, officially opened the reflector production line of its first North American manufacturing and distribution center in Las Vegas. The 130,000-square-foot, highly automatedmanufacturing and distribution center will supply the reflectors, absorber tubes, and other key components of the company\'s solar thermal power plants to the rapidly growing Southwestern solar power industry |
11/04 | China\'s Booming PV Market: Filled With Smoke and Fire | RenewableEnergyWorld.com | With ten highly prominent initial public offerings (IPOs) racked up already, China\'s solar energy industry is poised to make a major impact on worldwide polysilicon capacity and solar cell production. |
11/04 | BLM to Continue Accepting Solar Applications During Environmental Impact Study | Clean Edge News | In response to public interest in solar energy development, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it plans to continue accepting applications for future potential solar development on the public lands. |
11/04 | Indian Firm Announces $3.2 Billion Silicon Complex | New Energy Finance | Bangalore-based Velankani Group has plans to set up an integrated silane-to-wafer silicon manufacturing complex in Andhra Pradesh. |
11/04 | New Study Finds that Solar Could Provide 10 Percent of U.S. Electricity Generation by 2025 | Clean Edge News | A new study makes the case that solar power is emerging as a cost-effective hedge against fossil fuels and is likely to reach cost parity with retail-electricity rates in most regions of the U.S. in less than a decade. |
11/04 | San Francisco Green Lights Solar Rebates, Looking Ahead to More Renewables | VentureBeat.com | The San Francisco board of supervisors has finally given the go-ahead to the city |
11/04 | EDP Inaugurates its Largest US Wind Farm | New Energy Finance | EDP Renovaveis subsidiary Horizon Wind Energy has inaugurated its 400MW Lone Star wind farm, which is capable of providing electricity for up to 120,000 households, in Texas, US. |
11/04 | Petrotec Opens 113 Million Liter Biodiesel Plant With Dig at Government | New Energy Finance | German biodiesel firm Petrotec has opened a new plant in Emden with a capacity of 113m litres and has used the opportunity to criticise the government for not subsidising biodiesel made from waste material. |
11/04 | Fox Islands Wind Project Gets Yes Vote | RenewableEnergyWorld.com | Members of the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative from the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven, Maine, recently voted 382-5 in favor of siting a wind-power project in their community. |
11/04 | Spanish Solar Developer Fotowatio to Receive $350 Million Investment | Clean Edge News | GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, and Grupo Corporativo Landon announced recently they will invest about $350 million in Fotowatio, a Spanish solar power project developer. |
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