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NREL's Industry Growth Forum Brings Together Energy Innovators
The Industry Growth Forum hosted by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) this week attracted nearly 400 investors, entrepreneurs, scientists and thought leaders to Denver. Last night, three companies where honored with Best Venture and Outstanding Venture Awards.
The two-day forum highlighted clean energy industry technology and business developments. In addition to hearing business case presentations from 30 clean energy companies, including seven Col...
General News
- Dec 6, 2013
Mott MacDonald appointed on the Chaglla hydroelectric power project, PerA
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by The Bank of New York Mellon as independent engineer to monitor construction of the USD1.2 billion Chaglla hydroelectric power generation project in Perú. The 406MW plant is being constructed on the Huallaga River in the Chaglla and Chinchao districts in Huánuco. The project is being developed by Empresa de Generación Huallaga S.A (an Odebrecht Energia S.A. subsidiary).
The scheme includes construction of a 400MW main power p...
Hydro
- Dec 6, 2013
Amyris and TOTAL announced today the formation of Total Amyris BioSolutions B.V., a 50-50 joint venture that now holds exclusive rights and a license under Amyris’s intellectual property to produce and market renewable diesel and jet fuel from Amyris’s renewable farnesene. TOTAL is Amyris’s largest investor, holding approximately 18% of its outstanding common stock, and is deeply committed to the development of next-generation renewable fuels from biomass.
“The joi...
Bio
- Dec 6, 2013
Statoil makes another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania
The discovery of an additional 2-3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)* of natural gas in place in the Mronge-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to 17-20 Tcf in Block 2.
Mronge-1 is drilled by the drillship Discoverer Americas, and the site is located 20 kilometres north of the Zafarani discovery, and at 2,500-metre water depth.
"We have initiated a new and ambitious drilling campaign offshore Tanzania following four successful discoveries during the first drilling phase. The M...
Oil and Gas
- Exploration - Dec 6, 2013
Enphase Powered Solar Project Nears 2GWh Production Milestone
Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), and Virelec , a leading provider of complete solar electric solutions, today reported Injasuti Development’s solar PV farms have completed their first year of operation, reaching nearly 2GWh of clean energy production and offsetting 1,365 tons of CO2. The two adjacent 575kW solar installations utilize the Enphase System, engineered to maximize system energy production and uptime by eliminating an inverter-level single point of failure.
Paul Marot...
Solar
- Dec 5, 2013
Greenleaf Biofuels Produces 1 Millionth Gallon of Biodiesel
Greenleaf Biofuels, LLC, announced today that as of October 31, 2013, the Company produced its 1 millionth gallon of biodiesel. In commercial production at its New Haven Terminal location since this summer, reaching this milestone was a key goal for the Company and for the biofuel industry in Connecticut and New England. This fuel will primarily be blended into the region’s heating oil supply enabling consumers to heat their homes and businesses with a renewable and American-made produc...
Bio
- Bio - Dec 5, 2013
EPA's 2014 RFS Proposal Will Undercut Development of Advanced and Cellulosic Biofuels, BIO Says
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today testified at the EPA’s Public Hearing for the 2014 Standards for the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS), telling the agency that commercial development of advanced and cellulosic biofuels, as well as other biotechnology applications, could come to a halt if the recently released proposal becomes policy. The agency has proposed to decrease use of advanced biofuels in transportation in 2014, reversing the growth path intended in the R...
Bio
- Dec 5, 2013
World First! Successful Trial in Room Temperature Process of Film Dye-sensitized Solar Cell
The R&D Center (Director: Satoshi Uenoyama) of Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. (President: Naofumi Negishi, hereinafter called "Sekisui Chemical"), working together with Chief Researcher Shingo Hirose, Prime Senior Researcher Jun Akedo and others of the Advanced Coating Technology Platform Research Team, Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (Research Institute Director: Masanobu Awano), of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (President: Ryoji Chu...
Solar
- Dec 5, 2013
