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Austin Energy Green Power Sales #1 in the Country

Author: Austin Energy Provider: SustainableBusiness.com News For the second year in a row, Austin Energys green power program (GreenChoice) is the #1 utility-sponsored green power program in the nation based on sales. Austin Energy also ranked first with the lowest premium charged to customers subscribing to GreenChoice. The rankings were just released by the U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Austin Energy sold more than 289 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy last year, significantly more than second place Portland General Electric with 188.6 million kWh and more than twice that of third ranked Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) which had 143.1 million kWh in green power sales. Last year, the Austin Independent School District became the largest subscriber of renewable energy by a school district in the nation and the largest subscriber to Austin Energys GreenChoice program subscribing for 45 million kWh of green power annually. Also last year, Concordia University in Austin became the first college in the nation to subscribe to 100% of its annual electricity needs from green power. Current subscriptions to GreenChoice total almost 370-million kWh with 287 businesses and 7,200 residential customers participating. Forty-one Austin companies subscribe to 1 million kWh or more […]

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Chile Aims to Export GMO Fruit

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Chile Aims to Export GMO Fruit

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Technology Partnerships Canada Invests $1.4 Million in Stuart Energy

Stuart Energy Systems Corporation (TSX: HHO) announced an expansion of the scope of its Hydrogen Energy Station (HES) development project, including an additional $1.4 million in funding support from Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC), a special operating agency of Industry Canada. As part of the project, Stuart Energy has successfully developed technology that produces clean hydrogen for vehicle fueling. The project amendment will allow Stuart Energy to adapt this technology for use in hydrogen backup power generators and hydrogen-based storage systems for renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. The HESfp with both fueling and power capabilities is comprised of five modules: water electrolysis-based hydrogen generation, compression, high-pressure storage, hydrogen fuel dispensing and power generation. The HESfp can produce and deliver clean and safe hydrogen fuel to vehicles while at the same time provide backup or peak power to facilities, resulting in an environmentally-friendly alternative to the traditional diesel backup power generators used in most large buildings today.

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FuelCell Energy & Alliance Power to Provide 500kW Power To Santa Barbara

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCEL) and Alliance Power will supply 500 kilowatts of renewable energy to Santa Barbara. The two 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell power plants will supply electric power and heat to Santa Barbara's El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant, using methane gas from the anaerobic digesters as the fuel source. The power plants are expected to be delivered and operational in the fourth quarter of 2004. Alliance Power and FuelCell Energy have formed a joint venture to sell electric power and heat to the facility under a long-term power purchase agreement – the first of its kind for FuelCell Energy. Alliance Power is the turnkey provider to the project and FuelCell Energy will provide the DFC power plants and operations and maintenance services. The 650-degree Fahrenheit exhaust from the power plants will be used to supplement heating of the anaerobic digesters that create the methane gas for use by the fuel cells. Southern California Edison, administrator for The California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) Self-Generation Incentive Program for their service territory, has issued a reservation letter that will provide incentive funding of $2.25 million to the combined entity. Industrial and municipal wastewater treatment facilities with anaerobic gas digesters present an important […]

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Uni-Solar Secures 1.25 Megawatt Order

United Solar Ovonic LLC (Uni-Solar Ovonic), a leader in thin-film amorphous-silicon solar technology and a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER), received an order for 1.25 MW of photovoltaic (PV) panels from Sunset Energietechnik GmbH (Sunset) of Germany. Sunset also signed a letter of intent to purchase 5 MW of UNI-SOLAR products over the next 24 months. The products will be used by Sunset to address Germany's expanding grid-connected PV market. Sunset is a leading German supplier of PV systems. It chose the UNI-SOLAR modules because of their ruggedness, shadow tolerance and superior performance both at high temperature and under cloudy and low light conditions typical of Germany's climate conditions. www.sunset-solar.com Website: http://www.uni-solar.com     

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Uni-Solar Secures 1.25 Megawatt Order

United Solar Ovonic LLC (Uni-Solar Ovonic), a leader in thin-film amorphous-silicon solar technology and a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER), received an order for 1.25 MW of photovoltaic (PV) panels from Sunset Energietechnik GmbH (Sunset) of Germany. Sunset also signed a letter of intent to purchase 5 MW of UNI-SOLAR products over the next 24 months. The products will be used by Sunset to address Germany's expanding grid-connected PV market. Sunset is a leading German supplier of PV systems. It chose the UNI-SOLAR modules because of their ruggedness, shadow tolerance and superior performance both at high temperature and under cloudy and low light conditions typical of Germany's climate conditions. qww.sunset-solar.com Website: http://www.uni-solar.com     

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