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French utility GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) said Monday that it has agreed a EUR2.44 billion finance contract for the 3,300 MW Jirau hydropower plant

The London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP) has agreed a formal partnership with independent back-up power suppliers UPS Systems

Edmonton will be home to the world’s first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste

Terra Firma snaps up EverPower in multi-million dollar deal, as Southwest Windpower raises fresh funds for international expansion push

Spanish private equity GED has bought 60 percent of Total Eurobusiness Co, active on the segment of projects of energy co-generation

Spanish private equity GED has bought 60 percent of Total Eurobusiness Co, active on the segment of projects of energy co-generation, by an increase of capital worth 6 million euros, with the total investment of the company being forecasted to reach 12 million euros in the coming years. Co-generation is…

Will efforts to fight global warming lead to a gobbling up of farms and forests to create energy from wind and biofuels?

More forests, deserts and grasslands in the United States will be used to produce energy under a proposal to cap greenhouse gases, an unintended consequence of efforts to fight global warming, according to a Nature Conservancy report released this week. A bill that boosts energy from wind turbines and biofuels…

An efficiency of 12.4% has been reached with flexible cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar cells by EMPA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research in Dubendorf, Switzerland. The laboratory for thin Films and Photovoltaics attached flexible CdTe thin-film solar cells on a lightweight polyimide film by sing low…

An efficiency of 12.4% has been reached with flexible cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar cells by EMPA