U.S. Geothermal Inc. (TSX: GTH)(NYSE Amex: HTM) (”U.S. Geothermal”), a renewable energy company focused on the production and sale of electricity from geothermal energy, clarified today that the Securities and Exchange Commission declared the resale registration statements filed by U.S. Geothermal, effective on January 29, 2010. The registration statements register for resale the shares [...]
U.S. Geothermal Inc. (”U.S. Geothermal”) (TSX: GTH)(NYSE Amex: HTM), a renewable energy company focused on the production and sale of electricity from geothermal energy, announced a corporate update on business conducted at their Annual General Meeting (”AGM”) held on December 17th at the corporate headquarters in Boise, Idaho. All proposals submitted to shareholders for [...]
Austin, Texas, will be closer to meeting its goal of 30 percent renewable energy once a biomass facility from Southern Power comes into play.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, recently acquired a not-yet-constructed biomass facility from American Renewables LLC. The facility is being built in Sacul, Texas.
Southern Power plans to spend $475 million [...]
Andrew Donoghue, BusinessGreen
Wind energy projects in the UK can now apply for £1.4bn funding from a combination of the European Investment Bank and commercial sources.
The EIB has made around £700m available with the remainder matched by RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and BNP Paribas Fortis.
The loans will be available to eligible onshore wind projects with a [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - Nov. 5, 2009) - The BC Bioenergy Network (”BCBN”), a provincially-funded leader supporting the growing bioenergy sector in British Columbia, announced today a $100,000 investment with the BC Agricultural Research and Development Corporation (”ARDCorp”). The funding will enable ARDCorp to develop a comprehensive strategy and business plan for a Renewable Agri-Energy [...]
Johannesburg - Government has come up with a draft national solar water heating framework aimed at popularizing the idea of solar water power, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday.
The minister said South Africa, as well as the rest of the continent, had long under-utilized the power of the sun while adding that the global [...]
Vanguard Energy Partners, a leader in the design and installation of large-scale solar electric systems, and Sharp Solar Energy Solutions, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, today announce the deployment of a 334-kilowatt solar power system at the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority (NBCUA) wastewater treatment plant in Waldwick, New Jersey. Completed earlier this [...]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) — A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated electricity in China. Using extensive metrological data and incorporating the Chinese government’s energy bidding and financial restrictions for delivering wind power, the researchers estimate that wind alone has the potential to meet the country’s [...]
Lawmakers stuck on details of bills that would up renewable requirement to 33 percent.
SACRAMENTO — In one of their final acts of this session, state lawmakers today will consider increasing the requirements for California’s use of renewable energy — a move that could have a direct impact on the “green” efforts in the Coachella Valley.
Two [...]
LANDAU IN DER PFALZ, Germany — Government officials here are reviewing the safety of a geothermal energy project that scientists say set off an earthquake in mid-August, shaking buildings and frightening many residents of this small city.
The geothermal plant, built by Geox, a German energy company, extracts heat by drilling deep into the earth. Advocates [...]
