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| January 22, 2014 |
 Renewable chemical ready for biofuels scale-up Madison WI (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Using a plant-derived chemical, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated stream of sugars that's ripe with possibility for biofuels. "With the sugar platform, you have possibilities," says Jeremy Luterbacher, a UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher and the paper's lead author. "You've taken fewer forks down the conversion road, which lea ... more |  |
 Musselroe Wind Farm provides fresh energy for local economy Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The Clean Energy Council has congratulated its members Hydro Tasmania and Vestas on the successful opening of Tasmania's largest wind farm, the 56-turbine Musselroe Wind Farm in the state's north-east. The 168-megawatt wind farm is operated through a joint venture between Chinese company Shenhua Clean Energy and Hydro Tasmania. Fellow Clean Energy Council member Vestas supplied the turbine ... more |  |
 Westinghouse To Build Three AP1000 Nuclear Reactors In UK With Nugen Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that Toshiba Corporation has agreed in principle to buy a 60 percent share in the NuGeneration Limited (NuGen) Moorside project in West Cumbria, U.K., and they intend to move forward with the AP1000 new-build project in partnership with GDF SUEZ. The agreement provides that three Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of 3. ... more |  |
 Trina Solar supplies Edison Energy with 4,000 PV modules Changzhou, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Trina Solar has announced that it has supplied 4,000 PV modules to Edison Energy for a project that has seen Knowes Housing Association help 350 households at risk of fuel poverty in Clydebank, Scotland. Knowes Housing Association, managed by a committee of local tenants and owner-occupiers, owns and manages more than 1,000 properties in the Faifley and Duntocher areas of Clydebank. The in ... more |  |
 Tiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before Champaign IL (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own. Led by Taher Saif, the University of Illinois Gutgsell Professor of mechanical s ... more |  |
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SolarCity to Introduce Solar Financial Products San Mateo CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - SolarCityis transforming energy delivery by making solar power more accessible and affordable than previously possible-now the company wants to provide a new avenue for individuals and institutions from around the world to participate in and benefit from that transformation. SolarCity announced plans to launch a new, Web-based investment platform through which it intends to allow a broad r ... more |  |
Solar Frontier To Build No.4 Solar Plant In Tohoku Tohoku, Japan (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Solar Frontier is to construct a CIS solar module plant (Tohoku Plant) with nominal production capacity of 150 MW in the Tohoku region of Japan. This will be Solar Frontier's fourth manufacturing facility following its three plants in Miyazaki. The Tohoku Plant will be located at Ohiramura in Miyagi Prefecture and is scheduled to start production in March 2015 with a planned workforce of a ... more |  |
 New EPA Rule Requires Chemical Disclosure for Offshore Fracking Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals they discharge into the ocean. Oil and gas companies have been fracking offshore California for perhaps as long as two decades, but they largely flew under the radar until recently. An Associated Press ... more |  |
 Imec Celebrates 30 Years of Nanoelectronics Industry Innovation Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - World-leading nanotechnology research and development center imec, has announced the celebration of its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor chips and systems, electronics for life sciences, body area networks, energy, photovoltaics, sustainable wireless communication, image senso ... more |  |
MC Industrial to build Missouri's largest investor-owned Solar Energy Center St Louis MO (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - St. Louis-based MC Industrial has been chosen to manage the design and construction of Ameren Missouri's multi-million-dollar project to build the state's largest investor-owned solar energy center. The facility will be located in O'Fallon, Mo. MC Industrial has been named the EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) contractor, which means the company is responsible for all engineering, procureme ... more |  |
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 The German energy turnaround - implications for Russia Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Germany's energy turnaround, or "Energiewende", has become one of that country's most far-reaching projects in industrial policy. By 2050, renewable energy resources are supposed to provide 60 percent of country's gross final energy consumption and 80 percent of its electricity supply, with an intermediate goal of 35 percent of renewable power generation in 2020, according to the current plans o ... more |  |
DuPont Solamet Helps REC Increase Solar Panel Power Performance Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - DuPont Solamet PV18x series photovoltaic metallization paste is helping REC to develop its most powerful solar panels to date. The achievement is the result of collaboration over the last four years that has focused on optimizing successive generations of materials and manufacturing technologies to work better together. "Founded in Norway more than 15 years ago, REC is a pioneer in the sol ... more |  |
Energy storage in miniaturized capacitors may boost green energy technology Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries - storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices like camera flashes. So-called "supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package. In a paper published in the journal AIP Advances researchers describe the possi ... more |  |
 Yahoo big on desktops as world goes mobile San Francisco (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Yahoo was the most popular online venue visited from US desktop computers in December as modern lives increasingly revolve around using mobile devices to connect with the Internet. Yahoo continued to hold a crown it claimed in August of last year after edging past Google in a comScore ranking of online properties most frequently visited from desktop computers in the United States. Freshl ... more |  |
Shell to further scale down Australian operations? Sydney (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - Shell's Australian investments are in the spotlight after the company offloaded its holdings in a major gas project in Western Australia. Shell announced Monday it is selling an 8 percent stake in the Wheatstone-Iago joint venture gas fields, and also a 6.4 percent holding in the Wheatstone gas project to Kuwait's Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. for $1.3 billion. "Shell will re ... more |  |
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 Angry S. Koreans flood banks after data leak Seoul (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Tens of thousands of South Koreans flooded banks and call centres Tuesday to cancel credit cards following the unprecedented theft of the personal data of at least 20 million people. Since Monday, more than 1.15 million victims of the country's largest-ever leak of private financial information have cancelled their credit cards permanently or requested new ones, according to the Financial Su ... more |  |
Lenovo eyes takeover, with IBM server unit in focus New York (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Chinese computer giant Lenovo said Tuesday it is in negotiations on a "potential acquisition," following media reports the deal could be for IBM's server division. In a letter released to shareholders, Lenovo said its board "noted certain articles published in the Internet in relation to a possible acquisition by the company of certain computer server business." The letter added that Len ... more |  |
Verizon to buy Intel's fledgling TV operations New York (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Verizon said Tuesday it was buying Intel Media, a unit of the chipmaking giant for delivering movies and more to televisions via the Internet cloud, for an undisclosed price. The US telecom giant said the acquisition "will accelerate the availability of next-generation video services," delivered to devices including mobile phones and tablets. The deal includes intellectual property right ... more |  |
Big-screen "phablet" smartphone sales to soar: report San Francisco (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Sales of big-screen smartphones will soar in coming years as people who game or watch videos on the go opt for "phablets" with near tablet-size views. Phablets, a moniker created by combining the words "phone" and "tablet," will prove particularly popular among mobile gamers in South Korea and in China, where people will be drawn to high-quality viewing of online content, according to Britai ... more |  |
China central bank adds cash ahead of holiday Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - China's central bank said Tuesday it injected cash into the country's financial system, in a move seen as heading off a potential liquidity crunch ahead of the country's lunar new year holiday. The People's Bank of China (PBoC) injected 255 billion yuan ($42.1 billion) worth of funds into the interbank market on Tuesday, according to a statement. Demand for cash traditionally soars ahead ... more |  |
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