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Panasonic Sponsors MIT Solar Team

Content Keyword RSS | July 31, 2009

Panasonic Corporation will be participating at the upcoming Global Green Challenge in October to be held in Australia, sponsoring the Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by supplying high capacity lithium-ion batteries. In return, the MIT SEVT team will be placing the Panasonic logo on the body of the vehicle. The Global Green Challenge is an offshoot of the World Solar Challenge which started out in 1987 in Australia. With the call for alternative po

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U.S. ready to issue grants for renewable energy

Content Keyword RSS | July 31, 2009

Reuters 31 Jul 09; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it is now accepting applications for some $3 billion in government grants to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country. The money, from the economic stimulus package, will provide direct payments to companies in lieu of tax credits to support an estimated 5,000 biomass, solar, wind and other renewable energy production facilities. Projects must begin construction this year or in 2010 to get the

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African Sun May Light Up European Homes

Content Keyword RSS | July 31, 2009

Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the North African Maghreb region. The companies - including Germany’s largest private bank Deutsche Bank, the electronic giant Siemens, the leading insurance company Muenchener Rueck, and the biggest German power companies E.on and RWE - are planning to invest some 400 billion euros (560 billion dollars) in installation, and

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Army Going Solar With 500 MW of Solar Power in Mojave Desert

Content Keyword RSS | July 31, 2009

The Army knows that extensive alternative energy installations are the best way to ensure continuous, reliable electricity production. That’s why the military organization is building the Department of Defense’s largest ever solar project at the Fort Irwin Base in California’s Mojave Desert. Read more of this story »

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Our carbon trading blunder

Content Keyword RSS | July 31, 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Businessspectator.com.au |It’s a tragedy that the climate change debate is being used to pull the Coalition apart and to possibly bring on a double dissolution, because the political skirmish is obscuring significant events that have occurred since the current set of policies were framed.This week the change really came home to me when I discussed the latest developments with a state envir

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