By STEVE HART
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A Petaluma startup is hoping to plug in to the booming market for solar technology with an automated system for cleaning photovoltaic panels.
OCS Energy’s SolarWash system can increase the output of solar energy plants by 5 to 25 percent, said Rich O’Connell, the company’s CEO.
Dirt, leaves, moss, mold, sap, bugs — [...]

A Nevada company is proposing to build a 20-acre algae farm near the Houston Ship Channel to produce biodiesel.
Russell Industries Inc., a publicly traded holding company listed on the Pink Sheets under the ticker RUSL, says the proposal is currently under financing review by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Financial [...]

by Melissa Burden | The Flint Journal
If the Swedes can do it, what about Flintites?
Officials from the city of Flint, state of Michigan, Kettering University and Swedish Biogas International are on board to make biogas here at Flint’s wastewater treatment plant.
Officials have high hopes that making biogas will spearhead other renewable energy projects and aid [...]

Vancouver, BC, October 2, 2008–(T-Net)–QuestAir Technologies Inc. (TSX: QAR; AIM: QAR) and Terasen Gas Inc. have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding whereby the companies will work jointly on the development of potential projects to produce supplies of bio-methane from organic waste. This clean energy source would be injected into Terasen Gas’s existing pipeline [...]