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China to Biuld it's First Coal-fired Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the construction and operation of a coal-fired integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the first such plant in a developing nation.

The ADB Board of Directors today approved a $135 million loan to build a 250-megawatt IGCC plant in Tianjin City [...]

Duke Energy Enters the Solar Power Market with a Texas Solar Farm Purchase

Duke Energy is adding solar power to its commercial renewable energy portfolio through the acquisition of a large-scale solar photovoltaic project under development in San Antonio, Texas.

Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), a Duke Energy Commercial Businesses unit that owns and develops renewable power assets, will purchase the Blue Wing Solar Project from juwi solar Inc., [...]

First Solar and NRG Energy Open Largest Solar Thinfilm PV Power Plant in California

First Solar  and NRG Energy recenlty announced the start of commercial operation for the largest photovoltaic (PV) solar project in California. First Solar developed and built the 21-megawatt (MW) power plant in Blythe, Calif., which was acquired last month by NRG through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar. Electricity generated by the solar facility is [...]

DOE takes Action to Encourage Innovation in Clean Energy Technology

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently outlined the Department’s plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas. The Hubs are part of a broad-based clean energy research strategy by the Obama Administration that will [...]

Hydrogen Power Plant Being Built in World Cup Park , Seoul

The Seoul city government will start constructing a hydrogen-fired power plant in World Cup Park in Seoul next May.

The 2.4 mega watt facility will generate electricity with hydrogen extracted from oil and gas. Such a method is considered environmentally friendly for emitting no sulfur oxide and other harmful chemicals.

Greenland to Increase Share of Renewable Energy through Storage in Hydrogen

The national energy company of Greenland, Nukissiorfiit has started an exciting project, called H2KT that are to enable increase in the use of renewable energy in Greenland. The H2KT-project are to establish a hydrogen and fuel cell plant in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, in order to demonstrate and gather the first operation experience of [...]

Cyclone Power Technologies Signs Letter of Intent

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POMPANO BEACH, FL, Nov. 4, 2009. Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets: CYPW) has signed a Letter of Intent with Great Wall Alternative Power Systems Ltd. to advance the development and production of Cyclone’s award-winning heat-regenerative external combustion engine in China.  

Duke Energy and China-Based ENN Group to Build Solar Power Projects in U.S.

China-based ENN Group and Duke Energy will jointly develop commercial solar power projects in the U.S.

Under an agreement signed today, ENN and Duke Energy will concentrate on two types of solar photovoltaic designs: large “utility-scale” solar farms and commercial distributed generation solar projects. Distributed generation systems produce electricity close to where the energy is used, [...]

Largest Solar Energy Plant with 90,000 Solar Panels is Ready to Go.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company announced today that it expects the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., to begin delivering electricity to customers later this month – ahead of schedule.

The facility will overtake Nevada’s Nellis Solar Power Plant for the title of largest solar photovoltaic solar facility in [...]

Scientists Confirm Existence of Superheavy Element 114

Berkeley, CA – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been [...]