Sep. 9, 2009 (Business Wire) — Premier Power Renewable Energy (OTCBB: PPRW ) announced today that it has broken ground on the first phase of its 20 mega watt (MW) solar pipeline in Italy. Premiers Power’s first phase projects are located in the Puglia region of southern Italy and are the first in a series of projects valued in excess of $100 million that are being developed as a result of Premier Power’s acquisition of Arco Energy in July 2009. Arco Energy is an Italian solar project developer

U.S. Mission in GenevaThe U.S. Mission in Geneva is festooned with Solar Panels, and it now uses a high-efficiency air conditioning system. Until four years ago, the United States Mission in Geneva was another unbecoming concrete office block in the city’s diplomatic district. Now staffers can boast the building is a showcase for green technologies. The transformation began when the exterior of the building began to crumble earlier this decade. Instead of carrying out a straightforward restorati

Any first-time visitors from Tom Friedman’s column can go here for “ An Introduction to Climate Progress .” “China is going to eat our lunch and take our jobs on clean energy — an industry that we largely invented — and they are going to do it with a managed economy we don’t have and don’t want,” said Joe Romm, who writes the blog, climateprogress.org . The only way for us to match them is by legislating a rising carbon price along with efficiency and renewable standards that will stim

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NanosolarNanosolar, a California start-up, says it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its printable photovoltaic cells.Since its founding in 2002, Nanosolar has raised a lot of money – half a billion dollars to date – and made a lot of noise about upending the solar industry, but the Silicon Valley start-up has been a bit vague on specifics about why it’s the next big green thing.On Wednesday, Nanosolar pulled back the curtain on its thin-film photovoltaic cell technology — which it claims i

Despite all of these drawbacks, the Chinese government is funding several large-scale renewable energy projects as it faces both an energy crisis and high national levels of air pollution due to coal fired power plants. Beijing has shown plans to …

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The City of Summerside is challenging a discount that the P.E.I. utility Maritime Electric is offering wind export companies for the use of its transmission lines.
Wind developers are getting a 30 per cent break on transmission rates to ship power off the Island, but the utility charges the full rate for transmitting electricity used on P.E.I.
“The intention was to demonstrate to wind developers that P.E.I. is open for business,” John Gaudet, Maritime Electric’s vice-president of corporate affairs, told CBC News . . .

Call for legal advice on challenging appeal decision to overturn rejection of Kildrummy estate project
Aberdeenshire councillors could mount a late challenge to a planning appeal decision to approve a windfarm on Donside.
Energy firm RWE npower renewables was given permission to erect eight turbines on the Kildrummy Estate last month after a Scottish Government reporter overturned a ruling by local councillors, who rejected the scheme in September, 2007.
Yesterday councillors at the Marr area committee meeting at Alford called for . . .

Lebanon — More than 150 people came to a public forum Tuesday night at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds to learn more about wind energy. Two companies, EnXco and Gestamp Wind North America, are interested in placing wind farms in Boone County. Those attending the forum, hosted by the Boone County Area Plan Commission, heard about the wind energy review process from White County Director of Economic Development Connie Neininger; financial aspects of wind projects from Todd Samuelson and . . .

Residents in Heckington are demanding more information on a proposal to install up to 30 wind turbines close to the village.
The parish council called a public meeting on Monday night to discuss the matter, with representatives from the developer Ecotricity on hand to answer villagers’ questions.
A huge number of householders attended the meeting.
Gloucestershire-based Ecotricity has earmarked a site at Heckington Fen, close to the A17 and B1395 roads.
The company claims the proposed turbines would produce enough ‘clean’ electricity to power . . .

A windfarm overlooking the Lake District would have too significant an effect on local people to justify its energy output, a public inquiry heard yesterday.
Dozens of people packed into Mungrisdale Village Hall yesterday to hear the opening exchanges in the public inquiry into the possibility of building a nine-turbine windfarm on Berrier Hill at the Greystoke Estate.
The planned windfarm is 800 yards from the Lake District National Park, and could be seen up to 10 kilometres away from some of . . .

YORK — Winds that whip miles off Maine’s coast eventually could help create new jobs, draw investment and propel the Pine Tree State to the head of the wind-power industry, officials say.
Working with the University of Maine, the state is taking its first steps in a long-term plan to make Maine a hub of offshore energy generation by developing test sites for wind turbines that could be stationed in deepwater locations.
In coming weeks, the Department of Conservation will hold a . . .

“Today, we’re inaugurating the pilot facility which could help floating wind turbines to make an important contribution in the longer term to meeting the world’s big demand for energy,” says Margareth Oevrum, executive vice president for Technology & New Energy (TNE) in StatoilHydro.
The Hywind pilot is to be tested over a two-year period. It combines technology from both the wind power and oil and gas sectors, and draws on expertise gained from StatoilHydro’s long offshore experience.
“We’ve drawn on experience acquired . . .

Recently I received an e-mail with an attached article on noise pollution and its many effects. My correspondent commented that she had run across articles about possible health problems, including tinnitus, associated with wind turbines and wind farms. “Some of them,” she wrote, “are scary and really make you think twice about the safety of this alternate energy source.”
My curiosity aroused, I downloaded the article on noise pollution entitled, interestingly, “Noise leads birds to unfaithfulness,” authored by Anne Outwater, a . . .

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