Vanteck Technology Corp. (Vancouver, BC) announced that its subsidiary, Pinnacle VRB Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia), has been awarded the contract for the energy...
DTE Energy Technologies Inc. (Detroit, MI) announced an agreement with STM Power Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) to provide energy|now system operations center...
Schaefer Inc. (Ashland, MA) introduced its new SLPS Series of 20kW, 8U high, 19in, rack-compatible, ac/dc converters. Typical applications include battery charging...
QUANTUM Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. (Irvine, CA), a wholly owned subsidiary of IMPCO Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, CA), was awarded a contract...
Hydrogenics Corp. (Mississauga, ON) announced that it has received an order from AeroVironment Inc. (Monrovia, CA) for fuel cell modules and support and testing services. The fuel cell modules will be delivered in 2002 for installation in a high-altitude, unmanned, solar-electric, Helios aircraft. The fuel cell modules will be part of an airborne fuel cell […]
FPL Energy LLC (Juno Beach, FL), a subsidiary of FPL Group Inc., announced that it will build, own and operate the largest...
Northern Power Systems (Waitsfield, VT) announced that it has been commissioned to complete the design and installation of a photovoltaic (PV) system...
Kyocera Solar Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ) announced the sale of Kyocera Solar Argentina S.A. (Buenos Aires, Argentina), which includes a manufacturing operation in La Rioja, Argentina, to Fernando Salgado, a long-time employee and division manager. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Salgado has renamed the company Solartec S.A. and has entered into supply/purchase and license […]
VPT Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) announced that the US Air Force (USAF) has awarded VPT a contract to research and develop a modular, high-efficiency, series-connected, boost regulator (SCBR) solar array, peak-power tracker (PPT) for use in satellite systems. VPT will design a small, efficient power system that incorporates the use of off-the-shelf, dc/dc power converters. Initially […]
Freeplay Energy Group (London) and Coleman Company Inc. (Wichita, KS) have co-developed the new Coleman Sentinel flashlight and Outrider radio, which are...
Scottish Power plc (London) announced that its plan to build a 35-turbine wind farm in Scotland to produce green power has received the Argyll and Bute Council's approval. The 20-million pound ($29.14 million) medium-sized wind farm is expected to be operational by late 2003 and will be situated at Cruach Mhor in western Scotland. It […]
Proton Energy Systems Inc. (Rocky Hill, CT) announced that it delivered a renewable, energy-based HOGEN® hydrogen generator to Birka Energi AB (Sweden), in conjunction with ABB (Zurich, Switzerland), to fuel an environmental information center in Hammarby Sjostad, Stockholm, Sweden, that will generate hydrogen directly from a photovoltaic solar array. Birka Energi and ABB selected Proton's […]
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO, Japan) announced that it has provisionally agreed with Tomen Corp. (Japan) to take a 50-percent stake in the trading company's wind power unit for about 10 billion yen ($82.55 million). A final agreement is due to be signed in August 2002. With the deal, TEPCO aims to boost its wind-power […]
United Solar Systems Corp. (Auburn Hills, MI), a joint venture between Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) and N.V. Bekaert S.A., announced the official inauguration of a thin-film solar cell manufacturing machine and related assembly equipment at its Bekaert ECD Solar Systems (Auburn Hills, MI) facility. The new machine is capable of producing nine […]
AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE) announced an agreement with Clarum Homes, which will make solar-electric power a standard feature in two new Clarum communities. The agreement provides that AstroPower will supply 277 solar-electric home power systems within the next three years, and they will be standard on every home in the new Vista Montana community in […]