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V-Kool, Inc., North American distributor of heat-blocking, energy-saving applied window film for commercial and residential applications, announced a referral reward program that will pay recent customers 5% of the installed price of actual sales…
Innovations will be essential to increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and transportation to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, DuPont Greater China President Doug Muzyka told participants yesterday at the Bali Global Business Day at…
The growth of the solar markets, both PV and thermal, create a shortage of  ultra-white (low iron) glass. Munich based SolarGlas AG starts to build a  specialised float glass plant for the production of solar glass to serve this  market.
GE Energy has supplied 363 roof-mounted solar panels at the top of 45 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City that help generate electricity for the first solar powered Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it was named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for its pioneering work on the Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line, at a gala presenting the prestigious 9th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards.
The Energy Department on Thursday said it will invest up to $5.2 million to support the development of nine low-cost solar-power projects, including some proposed by 3M Co., Alcoa Inc., Hamilton Sundstrand and PPG Industries.
Acciona Solar, a subsidiary of Acciona Energy that works in the field of solar technologies, has been awarded the European Solar Prize 2007 by the European Association for Renewable Energy (Eurosolar) for its contribution and work in the development…
The Italian energy corporation Enel SpA has announced to invest around €300 million ($428 million) in constructing PV systems and solar thermal power plants by 2011.
A Water/Glass villa overlooking the Pacific ocean on a bluff high above the Atami coast has won first prize in the Residential section of the 1997 DuPont Benedictus Awards for innovation in laminated glass for architect Kengo Kuma of Kengo Kuma…
Despite higher polysilicon prices, most Greater China solar panel manufacturers say they plan to lower or keep prices steady to win market share.
DuPont has opened its first office in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Sofia office represents DuPont’s growing market reach in Central Europe, following site openings in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Baltic countries and Serbia, the latter just…
As part of its growth strategy for emerging markets, DuPont has opened its first office in Serbia. The office, in the capital city of Belgrade, represents DuPont's growing market reach in Central Europe, following facility openings in Poland,…
DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions announced a price increase of 15 percent on all grades of DuPont(TM) Butacite® polyvinyl butyral interlayer effective January 1, 2008.
Shortly after a visit by Angela Merkel, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, the Indian solar industry sector has been given a major boost by the announcement of a strategic partnership between an Indian and a German company - the solar module…
Canadian Solar Inc. (CSI) announced that it has signed a new contract with German City Solar Group to deliver 60 MW of solar modules for a series of solar power station projects in Spain.
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire Baccini S.p.A., a leading supplier of automated metallization and test systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) cells.
DuPont Europe, Middle East & Africa employees participated in a workshop on homes of the future last week at Technology Innovation Südtirol Innovation Park in Bolzano, Italy.
People from Austria enjoy living in harmony with nature, particularly those who live in the region known as Styria, the green heart of the alpine republic.
Kyocera Solar, Inc., a supplier of environmentally friendly photovoltaic (PV) systems, announced the completion of a 96.4-kilowatt solar electric generating system atop the newly redesigned Children's Museum San Diego (CMSD).
Window&Door reported that the Department of Energy is on track to put revised Energy Star criteria for windows into effect by early 2009, according to Richard Karney, DOE Energy Star program manager.
DuPont recently introduced innovative building and construction solutions during construction week in TelAviv, Israel, to increase growth in the Israeli construction industry.
Hydro, in collaboration with Ascent Solar Technologies, will introduce at Batimat 2007 in Paris a new way of using photovoltaics in its aluminium building systems, which can achieve significant savings in energy consumption.
Utility scale solar thermal power is something you still don’t hear much about, but along with photovoltaic power, it is a big part of the reason solar power is possibly the only source of renewable energy that is not only absolutely clean and…