Bayer MaterialScience LLC has developed a new polyurethane-based composite technology in response to the wind power industry’s desire for stronger, longer wind blades.
PPG Industries will showcase low-emissivity and new passive solar glass samples at the International Builders Show for 2012 in Orlando, which is to be held on Feb. 8-11 of 2012.
According to a report titled, “Fuel Cells for Military Applications” released by the cleantech market intelligence company, Pike Research, military fuel cell shipments are likely to increase from 1,200 in 2011 to 272,000 in 2017. This in turn will generate military fuel cells revenues of $1.2 billion from $9 million in 2011.
Imec and collaborators have demonstrated interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cells that have a high conversion efficiency of 23.3%. Schott Solar, Solland Solar, GDF-SUEZ, Dow Corning, Kaneka, Photovoltech and Total are imec’s partners in the silicon photovoltaic industrial affiliation program.
BioSolar will showcase the BioBacksheet integrated photovoltaic panels at the GovGreen Conference, which will be held in Washington DC. Four PV producers manufactured these panels, which are being considered for commercial utilization of the BioBacksheet.
Making solar power commercially viable with low costs, portablity and higher energy efficiency is the task that the University of Pittsburgh researchers have undertaken through the grant given by the National Science Foundation.
US-based wind turbine composite component manufacturer, Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) Companies has announced that it will provide spare parts and replacement parts for old turbines. The company will provide nacelles, nose cones, replacement blades, FRP components and hatch covers to operators that run old fleets.
Northern Technologies International (NTIC) has secured $500,000 of a Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (DoD-SBIR) Phase II grant to develop marine eco-friendly and bio-based non-plastic bags.
Siemens has announced its plans to expand its presence in Africa. Towards this end the company plans to create 500 green jobs in the region and increase its orders in Africa by three times by the year 2012 from the 2009 figures of € 3 billion.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have proposed to set higher greenhouse gas pollution and fuel economy standards for the vehicles to be produced in 2017-2025.
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