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USDA announced new biomass production projects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced recently four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) projects aimed to enlarge the availability of non-food crofs by using it in the production of liquid biofuels. The UDSA assigned up to $45 million for contracts that last less than five years and up to 15 years.
read more... 10/08/2011
Thames Water delivered 450 kW solar panels to British desalination plant
Thames Water, has commissioned 450 KW arrays of solar panels at its water desalination plant (Beckton), as a part of Britain’s biggest on-site solar power producer and industrial user situated on 150,000 m³/d area. According to the 25-year contract and worth £7 million, Ennoviga Solar Ltd, has created an investment company that will own and maintain the solar park, and will recover its investments by selling the green power produced to the water company.
read more... 09/08/2011
Canada launched new ecoEnergy Innovation Initiative
Recently, the Canadian Government launched the new ecoEnergy Innovation Initiative, worth 97 million dollars which will be allocated for research studies, development and demonstration projects for green energy technologies.
read more... 08/08/2011
Pattern to sign four new agreements with OPA
Pattern Energy Group LP and Samsung Renewable Energy announced the signing of four new agreements with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) for purchasing power under which the companies are obliged to provide 870 MW of green power from wind projects to OPA, enough to supply power for over 300,000 homes yearly.
read more... 05/08/2011
ABB won 1 billion dollars order
A leading power and automation technology group, ABB, will receive around 1 billion dollars from the TenneT, a Dutch-German transmission grid operator to furnish a power grid that will connect the North Sea wind farms to the German main grid that will have a total transmission capacity of over 900 MW.
read more... 04/08/2011