The Energy Department is getting ready to hand out about $2 billion in grants to create a domestic industry for electric-car batteries, and 122 companies are scrambling to get pieces.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sporty hybrid model in February 2010 and Fit Hybrid before the end of 2010. By combining these two models with the currently available Insight and Civic Hybrid, Honda will further enhance its lineup of compact hybrid models, which leverage the unique characteristics of Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA), including …
Prepare for a radically different lifestyle as global crude oil production peaks and begins to decline.
Submitters who originally opposed plans for a small wind farm on one of Clutha’s highest points will soon be approached by the project’s new owners, who are keen to reactivate the development.
Auburn University researchers have played a key role in the installing of a solar power system at Lee County’s T.K. Davis Justice Center, the first public building in Alabama to be outfitted with such a system. The researchers work at Auburn’s Space Research Institute.
Move over T. Boone Pickens, your grand Texas wind farm dreams have been overtaken by energy start-up Baryonyx, which has won bids for three land leases–two offshore, and one in the Texas Panhandle–to build data centers in Texas powered by massive wind farms. When complete, Baryonyx claims that the coastal projects, set to be built on sites that are each over 19,000 acres, will be the biggest …
—-Solar Power Partners, Inc. , America’s premier independent solar power producer, helps businesses, institutions, municipalities and agricultural customers embrace solar energy. SPP develops, owns, and operates distributed solar energy facilities and sells solar-generated electricity through solar Power Purchase Agreements , long-term energy financing solutions that help customers go green …
LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) will develop both thin-film and silicon solar power, with the two types of photovoltaic (PV) technology expected to have an equal share of the market in 2015, according to company president and CEO, LJ Chen.
A Tesla Motors Roadster arrives at the LES wind turbine site to recharge, Thursday, July 23, 2009. Renew America Roadtrip is driving the plug-in, electric car cross country promoting greener alternatives to gas dependant transportation.
