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Hutchinson Engineering (Widnes, UK) has won an International Safety Award from the British Safety Council after achieving a distinction and full marks of 60 out of 60.

NEW YORK — The U.S. wind industry’s 2011 Annual Market Report shows that American wind power is at the heart of an American success story ending another strong year of double-digit growth. The market report illustrates how wind power has created a positive feedback loop where market certainty allows for…

Bilbao/Madrid/Copenhagen, 12 April 2012. Gamesa, a global technology leader in the wind energy industry, on the occasion of one of the sector’s key events, EWEA 2012 Copenhagen (Denmark), is pleased to announce the launch of a new wind turbine: the G114-2.0 MW Class IIIA, designed to achieve maximum returns from…

Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland), April 11th, 2012. The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar boat ever built, will complete its journey around the world on May 4th in the Hercule harbour of Monaco.

Arava Power Company inks provisional license for large Negev-based photovoltaic solar field.

L &T Construction achieves 114MW of installations in a single year.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of lightweight flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced today the winners of its company sponsored Innovative Design Competition.

XINYU CITY, China and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (“LDK Solar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LDK), a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products, today announced that it has changed the release date of its fourth quarter 2011 results originally scheduled for April 12,…

Between 2006 and 2010, total global capacity of many renewable energy technologies – including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, concentrated solar power (CSP), solar water heating systems, and biofuels – grew at rates ranging from around 15% to nearly 50% annually. Solar PV, the dominant form of renewable distributed energy…

Thin-Film Industry Forum 2012 sheds light on latest industry developments.